The VM Workshop Planning Committee would like to thank the nearly 300 attendees that participated in our virtual event. We hope that you found it of value and would ask that you take a short 3 minute survey to help us understand how we did and to help us plan for next year’s event.

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.

OpenAFS 1.8.6pre3 is the second beta for the next stable release of OpenAFS. 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 Summit + Embedded Linux Conference North America 2020 is now a Virtual Experience, happening June 29 – July 2 on the US Central Time Zone.

VM Workshop Planning Committee  is thrilled to announce that registration for our 2020 Virtual Workshop (June 16 – 19) is now open.  Please proceed to our registration page to register for this no-cost 3 ½ day event. Registration is required for attendance.

OpenAFS 1.8.6pre2 is the first beta for the next stable release of OpenAFS. It brings performance improvements, improved diagnostics, support for the latest Linux mainline kernel (currently 5.6) and macOS 10.15 "Catalina", and a number of bug fixes.

For more information please visit. https://www.openafs.org

Sine Nomine Associates' OpenAFS team announced that OpenAFS client for MacOS Mohave and Catalina is now available to download. The downloads can be found here.

You can run OpenAFS on your mainframe as well.

On April 8th, the VM Workshop committee was informed that The Ohio State University is cancelling all events through the month of June. As a result, the June 2020 VM Workshop is being rescheduled to June 10th, 2021 at OSU. Those attendees and sponsors that registered early, will have the option of having their fees applied towards the 2021 event or receiving a refund by sending an email to info@vmworkshop.org.

We have been working on a backup plan to provide the first VM Workshop (no cost) webinar during the week of June 15, 2020.

Sine Nomine Associates, Inc., a leader in open source development and support, proudly announces their Creative Support Services and NOC Design team’s completion of an Advanced Integrated Operations Center design for a key mining operation facility.

For 20 years, the company has been working diligently as an IBM partner on similar global projects, displaying design skills that enrich not only IBM’s internal projects, but also those of numerous Fortune 1000 companies and several government agencies.

The 2020 VM Workshop dates have been set. Sine Nomine Associates is proud to be a sponsor once again. The Workshop will be heading back to The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio for two and a half days packed full of education and networking.