[ofa-general] RE: OFED 1.4.2-rc2 is available

[Tziporet Koren]

Fixed subject - its 1.4.2 and not 1.4.1

-----Original Message-----
From: Tziporet Koren 
Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 12:55 PM
To: Tziporet Koren; ewg at lists.openfabrics.org
Cc: general at lists.openfabrics.org
Subject: OFED 1.4.1-rc2 is available

OFED 1.4.2-RC2 is available.

Notes: 
1. Any Lustre and NFS/RDMA users should use this release
2. This release is aimed for critical bug fixes only, and will pass only
a short QA cycle
2. OFA interop and Logo program testing are not planned for 1.4.2

The tarball is available on:
http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED/ofed-1.4.2/OFED-1.4.2-rc2.tgz

To get BUILD_ID run ofed_info

Please report any issues in bugzilla https://bugs.openfabrics.org/  for
OFED 1.4.2

Vladimir & Tziporet

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Release information:
------------------------------
Linux Operating Systems:
      - RedHat EL4 up4:  2.6.9-42.ELsmp      *
      - RedHat EL4 up5:  2.6.9-55.ELsmp
      - RedHat EL4 up6:  2.6.9-67.ELsmp
      - RedHat EL4 up7:  2.6.9-78.ELsmp
      - RedHat EL5:        2.6.18-8.el5
      - RedHat EL5 up1:  2.6.18-53.el5
      - RedHat EL5 up2:  2.6.18-92.el5
      - RedHat EL5 up3:  2.6.18-128.el5
      - OEL 4.5:              2.6.9-55.ELsmp
      - OEL 5.2:              2.6.18-92.el5
      - CentOS 5.2:         2.6.18-92.el5
      - Fedora C9:           2.6.25-14.fc9          *
      - SLES10:              2.6.16.21-0.8-smp
      - SLES10 SP1:       2.6.16.46-0.12-smp
      - SLES10 SP1 up1: 2.6.16.53-0.16-smp
      - SLES10 SP2:       2.6.16.60-0.21-smp
      - SLES11 GA:         2.6.27.13-1-default
      - OpenSuSE 10.3:   2.6.22.5-31             *
      - kernel.org:             2.6.26 and 2.6.27

    * Minimal QA for these versions

Systems:
      * x86_64
      * x86
      * ia64
      * ppc64

Changes from OFED-1.4.1
========================
Bug fixes:
----------
SDP:
- Fix memory leak in bzcopy (#1672)
- Fix bad credits advertised when connection initiated (#1679)
- Fix compilation on i386 with gcc 3.4 used in Redhat 4. (#1630)
- Fix Data integrity error (#1672)

Backports:
- Fix clear-dirty-page accounting. This bug was hit in Lustre testing
(#1650)
- Fix NFS stale file handles (#1680)
- Simple NFS file operations causes RHEL 5.3 server to hard hang.
(#1676)
- iozone direct write test causes OFED to hang/crash (#1675)
- Module crash on server with multiple client simple load (#1677)

mlx4 driver:
- Fix post send of local invalidate and fast registration packets.
  This fixed nfsrdma server crash @test5 connectathon basic test.
(#1571)
nes driver:
- fix qp refcount during disconnect

Features:
---------
nes driver:
- Make LRO as default feature
mlx4 driver:
- Added a new device ID: 0x6764: MT26468 ConnectX EN 10GigE PCIe gen2


Tasks that should be completed for GA (July 22):
================================================
- Fix bug:
  1678 simple RDMA NFSv4 traffic hangs the clients attempting to
complete 
- Documents update