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This is to announce Coda 4.6.5. -------------------------------- Coda is a distributed filesystem with novel features such as disconnected operation and server replication. For many details about Coda see http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu. Coda currently runs on FreeBSD(i386), Linux(i386,sparc) and NetBSD(i386). Ports to Windows are in progress. What happened since Coda 4.6.1 our previous "public" release? - we got official IANA port numbers. We are using these now in conjunction with the portmapper to run Coda on decent ports. This by itself makes Coda 4.6.5 incompatible will all previous versions. - we have started to look at bandwidth issues. Much of the bulk transfer retry code was reviewed in the group and improved by Jan Harkes with better constants and decisions. Jan will pursue further connectivity issues during the coming year. - Kerberos authentication is now supported. This is work of Robert Watson and Peter Braam. - Some updates to the documentation were made by Henry Pierce, who has left our group. Peter also updated the doc package with instructions how to fix up sgml-tools to work for the documentation. - Minor changes to Linux 2.1 kernel code. Get the new linux-coda-4.7.0.tgz from the pub/coda/src directory. All in all this version is MUCH better than 4.6.1, try it. It has been released in binary form for Linux i386, FreeBSD 2.2.5 (i386), NetBSD 1.3(i386). It can be found at: ftp://ftp.coda.cs.cmu.edu/pub/coda/[your platform] Documention in cpio and rpm format: ftp://ftp.coda.cs.cmu.edu/pub/coda/doc ------------------------------------------------------------------------- On the WWW is a new shortcut to the bugslist - this hasn't been previously shown on the WWW and Jan and I have sorted the bugs by category. We have not yet gone through the mailinglist (linux-coda) to check what is still an outstanding bug on that list. Don't get depressed. Jan's Jitterbug installation should cheer you up. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- What's next? Bob Baron is just about to announce his work on kernel support in FreeBSD current and NetBSD current - yes, it's in the official kernels now - but ELF issues and the like give some compilation headaches in user land. This will probably come out as 4.6.? as well as be included in our unstable 4.7 release - see below. Jan has made some nice graphical tools - we just forgot to package them. They indicate bandwidth and the size of the client CML. Look in coda-src/scripts. Next time, they'll be in. Peter has just created chaos by checking in changes to give Coda a new directory handling layer. This is our development version 4.7 for which we will release a source snapshot really soon. It sort of works (client is good - server does something). Marc Schnieder is new to the group and has come to participate heavily in the completion of the Windows 95 and NT stuff. His patches, changes as well as work Peter and Michael are doing will enter the 4.7 tree in the near future. It's unclear when this will lead to an easily manageable Coda release for NT and 95 but of course this is our target. Troy Benjegerdes and Anthony Johnston have ported Coda to MkLinux and PPCLinux - this will get into 4.7 soon. Phil Nelson is working on NetBSD ARM (Hey Corel, where are your boxes? :)). --------------------------------------------------------------------- Have fun! The Coda Group. Contacts: Peter Braam, braam_at_cs.cmu.edu Jan Harkes, jaharkes_at_cs.cmu.eduReceived on 1998-09-03 17:33:25