Sinenomine Associates: OpenAFS 1.8.16pre1 released

April 22, 2026 - PRLog -- OpenAFS 1.8.16pre1 is the first beta for the next stable release of OpenAFS for UNIX/Linux systems. It fixes a bug that had caused Linux 6.17 clients to not see filename changes made on other clients; adds support for Linux mainline kernels through 7.0; and works around an issue where client utilities (e.g., 'fs', 'bos') on macOS Apple CPUs would crash on startup (by distributing the x86_64 version of the utilities and relying on Rosetta for execution); as well as other minor improvements.

AFS is a distributed filesystem product, pioneered at Carnegie Mellon University and supported and developed as a product by Transarc Corporation (now IBM Pittsburgh Labs). It offers a client-server architecture for federated file sharing and replicated read-only content distribution, providing location independence, scalability, security, and transparent migration capabilities. AFS is available for a broad range of heterogeneous systems including UNIX, Linux, MacOS X, and Microsoft Windows

IBM branched the source of the AFS product and made a copy of the source available for community development and maintenance. They called the release OpenAFS.

SineNomine Associates inc. CEO Margarete Ziemer is also on the OpenAFS foundation Board of directors. The OpenAFS foundation is a
501(c)3 non-profit

For more information:
Read the 1.8.16pre1 release notes openafs.org/dl/openafs/candidate/1.8.16pre1/RELNOTES-1.8.16pre1
Go to the distribution page
https://openafs.org/release/openafs-1.8.16pre1.html