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Subject: am-utils-6.2-rc1 released
We've released am-utils-6.2-rc1, first and only release candidate in the
6.2 series (with nfsv4 support, autofs supports, and quite a few more
features). This will be the first official release since 2006, so expect a
lot of bug fixes and improvements.
You can download am-utils-6.2-rc1 as well as other releases from:
http://www.am-utils.org/
*** Notes specific to am-utils version 6.2-rc1
Filesystem Support:
- Add support for NFSv4
- Add support for Lustre
- Add support for ext{2,3,4}
- Add support for linux autofs version 5
- Add support for TMPFS and UDF
New features:
- Add amq -i (prints information about maps)
- Add synchronous unmount code for amq -uu
- Allow a comma-separated list of LDAP servers for failover
Changes in behavior:
- Empty variable assignments, now unset the variable value.
- Share LDAP connections between different maps to save resources
Portability fixes:
- Changes to work with Linux-2.6.x, Linux-3.x and NetBSD-5.x, NetBSD-6.x,
FreeBSD 7.x, Solaris
Bug fixes:
- Many bug fixes, see ChangeLog
- minor new ports:
* Please send us the 'config.guess' and 'amd -v' outputs
so we can complete this list.
- Bugs fixed:
* many race conditions found and fixed by Krisztian Kovacs.
Cheers,
The am-utils team.
PS. Many thanks for Christos Zoulas for a huge amount of work he put in
towards this long-awaited release.