Hello,

The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the first beta release
of Amanda 2.5.2, the 2.5.2b1 release.

It can be dowloaded from http://www.amanda.org (not yet available) or
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=120

Here's a list of the changes for release 2.5.2b1 (from the NEWS file):
Look at the ReleaseNotes and ChangeLog file for more details.

* Many bugs fixed and code cleanup
* krb5 auth is working
* Works with IPv6 address
* Amanda configuration file changes
     o amanda.conf changes
           + debugging is enabled in the config file
             see all debug_* config option
           + tapetype 'readblocksize', if maxtapeblocksize is set too
             larger for your hardware

If you find bug in this release, please submit a bug report on sourceforge
(http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=120&atid=100120)

Jean-Louis