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 file sharing, providing location independence, scalability and transparent migration capabilities for data.

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.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· This is the recommended production-ready release for Microsoft Windows users. Other platforms should use 1.4.11.
· This release has official support for Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2.
· It prevents a file server bug from causing an "unexpected network error" when writing to files.
· It promotes DNS SRV records as superior to DNS AFSDB records.
· It fixes the SMB redirector disconnecting sometimes.
· All UNIX clients support SRV records for discovering AFS servers.
· A race/crash in volserver has been fixed. Mac OS X has Preferences Pane improvements.
· Core file handling works correctly on HP-UX.