The existing ebuild for RC8 works for this release. But "candidate" must be removed in SRC_URI in ebuilds (openafs, openafs-kernel). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Though I have a preliminary upgrade guide at http://dev.gentoo.org/~stefaan/prerelease/openafs-guide/guide.html, it'd preferably be put online as official Gentoo documentation before I push this ebuild...
Upgrade guide is online now. New openafs-1.4.0 ebuild committed to the tree, with some extra init-script cleanups. Marking as fixed