2021 AFS Technologies Workshop
The 2021 AFS Technologies Workshop will be three half-day Virtual Workshops held from 10:00am to 2:30pm Eastern time on June 14, 15, and 16, 2021.
According to the workshop website:
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SNA Engineers Kurt Acker and Neale Ferguson named IBM Champions
Kurt Acker and Neale Ferguson were chosen for the year 2021.
IBM Champions are selected from among technology experts in order to share their knowledge. From the program website:
Sine Nomine Associates pre-release OpenAFS package for macOS Big Sur
As part of the ongoing efforts to import security and reliability of macOS, Apple has asked developers to transition products from Kernel Extensions to System Extensions. System Extensions allow software to extend the functionality of macOS without requiring kernel level access. In order to accommodate macOS Big Sur, as well as to position OpenAFS for future versions of macOS, Sine Nomine migrated network operations out of the OpenAFS kernel extension and has contributed the code changes to the OpenAFS open source project.
29-June-2020 - OpenAFS 1.8.6 - Maintenance release for UNIX/Linux
Submitted by webmaster on Tue, 06/30/2020 - 08:49
OpenAFS 1.8.6 is the next in the current stable series of OpenAFS releases for UNIX/Linux systems. It brings performance improvements, improved diagnostics, support for the latest Linux mainline kernel (currently 5.7) and macOS 10.15 "Catalina", and a number of bug fixes.
Note that aklog and klog.krb5 will now require the -insecure_des switch in order to work with the weak and deprecated single-DES encryption types.
Open Source World to take place February 9-12, 2021 in Miami Beach
Open Source World has been scheduled to take place February 9-12, 2021 at the Miami Beach Convention Center, A partial agenda is available online.
From the Open Source World website:
OpenAFS 1.9.0 - Development release for UNIX/Linux
On October 2, 2020, OpenAFS announced the development release of OpenAFS 1.9.0 for UNIX/Linux. According to the article, "OpenAFS 1.9.0 is the first in a series of OpenAFS development releases intended to facilitate testing of new features."
From the OpenAFS website:
See SNA's ad in this month's Enterprise Tech Journal
Sine Nomine Associates has recently published an ad in Enterprise Tech Journal entitled Enhancing Scalability, Reliability, Security and Afforability on Mainframes and Beyond is the Focus of Sine Nomine Assocites. The ad runs on pages D46 and D47 in the publication.