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Release History

• Version 6.3.3 [30 August, 2017]
  • Fix: The nfsd thread could crash if a persistent file handle with a no-longer-existent volume GUID was seen.
• Version 6.3.2 [9 August, 2017]
  • Fix: It was possible for NFS clients to issue a readdir call with a requested max response size which is too large to fit into a UDP datagram. Such requests are now handled without creating a too-large response.
  • Compatibility enhancement: Some NFS clients (for example, the Windows 7 NFS client) can return a byte-swapped cookie verifier in readdir requests. Allegro NFS now detects and handles clients that behave in this way.
• Version 6.3.1 [19 July, 2017]
  • Fix: correct a regression introduced in 6.3, which resulted in empty directory listings for directories containing special files (such as pagefile.sys).
• Version 6.3 [12 July, 2017]
  • Add configuration option for badly behaved clients that cannot handle 64-bit file-ids; when turned on, file-ids will be truncated to 32-bits.
  • Fix: if the "nsm-state" file becomes corrupted, then handle this more gracefully by reseting its contents.
  • Fix: readdir*() calls no longer takes a really long time on large directories.
  • Fix: no longer show negative fractional seconds in debug output.
  • Fix: install: detect when a reboot is pending and abort.
  • Fix: uninstall: detect when a reboot is needed and offer to reboot.
• Version 6.2 [6 December, 2016]
  • Fix: use an Allegro CL build that fixes a GC leak, which could result in the server process growing until it runs out of space. This bug was only present in version 6.1.
  • Fix: handle "tcp connection reset" errors, which previously made the server die and require manual restart. They are now ignored.
  • For silent installs (/S given to installer) do not start the configuration program at the end.
  • Directory entries are now returned in the order in which Windows returns them. Previously, directory listing were reversed.
  • The server can now detect when files or directories are renamed externally (i.e., not by an NFS client) and update its cache accordingly. Previously it could get into a confused state if files or directories were renamed externally.
• Version 6.1 [21 Jul, 2016]
  • Log possible conflicting NFS server running if an existing (aka system) portmapper is detected.
  • Fix: adjust the nfsd error handling so that certain errors do not cause the service to exit, and return reasonable errors to the client.
  • Fix: adjustments in heap placement for Windows 10. There should be fewer problems with service startup due to ASLR.
  • Fix: increased general client compatibility.
  • Fix: improved compatibility with the Windows Services For Unix (SFU) NFS client.
  • Fix: don't display configuration window until config has been loaded. This will help avoid confusion in cases where the NFS server is busy and it takes a while to get a response from it.
  • Fix: handle full filesystem errors, returning the proper ENOSPC error code to the client.
  • Fix: allow statfs and fsstat procedures on filenames (as opposed to a directories).

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