Kerberos for Windows Release Engineering

Release Engineering notes for the Kerberos for Windows 4.0.0 release

Software to test against new builds:

• SapGUI
• OpenAFS
• SecureCRT (and SecureFX?)
• SPNEGO (in multiple browsers?)
• Adobe Keyserver a.k.a the Sassafras key client
• SMTP in some form?
• LDAP in some form?
• XMPP in some form (pidgin?)?

Upgrades scenarios to test:

• 32-bit to 32-bit, from 3.2
• 64-bit to 64-bit, from 3.2
• 32-bit to 64-bit, from 3.2
• 32-bit and 64-bit to 64-bit, from 3.2
• 32-bit to 64-bit, from 4.0
• 64-bit to 32-bit, from 4.0

Current known issues:

• The uninstaller prompts to kill running processes but does not do succeed in doing so
• The upgrade procedure attempts to kill running processes but does not succeed in doing so (these two may be sharing most of the code). The wix-users archives suggest that Util:CloseApplication may be useful to do this in pure WiX instead of a custom element
• The version number implanted in various dlls may no longer reflect the underlying krb5 version (instead using the KfW version)
• windows/README is outdated