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• Version 5.0, 25 February, 2010:
  • Performance improvements
  • Improved support for Windows Vista/7
  • New: support for symbolic links
  • New: support for international filenames (UTF-8)
  • New: support for mount protocol version 2
  • New: notification app separate from service that shows log information
  • New: NLM and NSM debug options
  • New: added date to timestamp logging
  • New: option "Set file modification time after every write" allows users to work around inconvenient Window behavior with respect to file modification times. (Normally Windows does not update the mtime on a file until the file is closed. Since Allegro NFS keeps a file open while it is actively being written-to, a Windows program periodically checking the mtime of the file will not be able to tell that the file is actually being modified until the file is closed.) Using this option updates the modification time after every write. As a result there is a performance penalty of 10% and this option is disabled by default.
  • Improvements to hard link support
  • Better compatibility between UNIX and Windows-style locking
  • Improved interoperatibility with several UNIX clients
  • Many other small improvements and fixes
• Version 4.5, 20 June, 2007:
  • Windows Vista Support
  • Many interoperability fixes and bug fixes
  • Improved locking support
  • NLM and NSM port numbers can now be set manually
• Version 4.4, 29 Aug, 2006:
  • NFS lock support
  • Bug fixes
  • Enhanced debugging
• Version 4.3, 27 Oct, 2005:
  • Installs on systems with Windows Data Execution Prevention (DEP) turned on
  • allow specification of mountd port number for dealing with firewall issues
  • made mountd subprocess more robust in the face of malformed RPC messages
  • adjusted the logging of some "normal" error conditions so they look less alarming
  • better performance
  • bug fixes
• Version 4.0, 10 Aug, 2005:
  • NFS protocol V3 support
  • large file support
  • Hard link creation support
  • better performance
• Version 3.0, 22 Apr, 2004:
  • handle UNC pathnames
  • added "use system portmapper" option
• Version 2.0, 24 Feb, 2004:
  • new configuration utility
• Version 1.1.4, 3 Jul, 2003:
  • improved interoperability with some clients
  • configuration option for altering mode bits
• Version 1.1.3, 21 Mar, 2003:
  • bug fixes
• Version 1.1.1, 23 Jan, 2003:
  • Improvements of handling the NFS services
• Version 1.0.36, 23 Sep, 2002:
  • bug fixes
• Version 1.0.33, 27 Feb, 2002:
  • initial release

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