A very happy new year to everyone,

And to begin the new year, a new Coda release is out and there are
updates for everything Coda related,

    Coda-6.9.4, LWP-2.5, RPC2-2.8 and RVM-1.16

Sources can be found at, http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/pub/coda/src

Binaries have been built for various platforms, up-to-date binary
packages are currently available for Fedora 7 (x86), Debian (x86/amd64),
and Cygwin.

For Cygwin, if you have previously installed Coda under cygwin it should
be just a matter of re-running /usr/coda/bin/setup.exe which is the
cygwin setup that can update your installation. If you haven't
previously installed Coda under cygwin you can download the following
installer, http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/pub/coda/winnt/codasetup.exe

Jan


The most notable fixes and enhancements are as follows,

Bugfixes
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* Avoid possible crashes and/or data loss when volumes are removed from
  and re-added to the client cache.
* Add configuration setting (detect_reintegration_retry) for Coda
  clients running in a VMM which prevents dropping reintegrated
  operations when the virtual machine is reset to an earlier snapshot.
* Do not assert on various non-fatal conditions (failing chown/chmod)
  that may arise when for instance the client cache is stored on a vfat
  formatted file system.
* During backups, avoid unlocking locks that may have been taken by
  another thread.
* Allow changing of the ctime/mtime of symlinks.
* Avoid a server deadlock by correcting lock ordering between ViceFetch,
  ViceGetAttr and ViceValidataAttrs (problem identified and tracked down
  with lots of help from Rune).
* SFTP bulk data transfers could unexpectedly fail because it was
  checking an incorrect retry counter.

Enhancements
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* Improve tar support and add cpio archive formats for modification log
  checkpoints.
* Do not invoke server resolution on a single available replica.
* Add new incremental dump format that maintains full path information
  when converting the resulting volume dump to a tar archive.
* Add valgrind support to LWP.
* Simplify RPC2 retransmission interval calculation.