OpenSS7 STREAMS Binary Compatibility Modules -- history of user visible changes. 2007-06-24 $Id$ Copyright (c) 2001-2007 OpenSS7 Corporation. Copyright (c) 1997-2000 Brian Bidulock See the end for copying conditions (for this file). The sections that follow provide information on OpenSS7 releases of the OpenSS7 STREAMS Binary Compatibility Modules package. Major changes for release strbcm-0.9.2.4 ----------------------------------------- Major features since the last internal release are as follows: - Support build on openSUSE 10.2. - Support build on Fedora 7 with 2.6.21 kernel. - Support build on CentOS 5.0 (RHEL5). - Support build on Ubuntu 7.04. - Updated to gettext 0.16.1. - Changes to support build on 2.6.20-1.2307.fc5 and 2.6.20-1.2933.fc6 kernel. - Supports build on Fedora Core 6. - Support for recent distributions and tool chains. Major changes for release strbcm-0.9.2.3 ----------------------------------------- Major features since the last internal release are as follows: - Improvements to the common build environment with better support for standalone package builds on 2.4 kernels. - Support for autoconf 2.61, automake 1.10 and gettext 0.16. - Support for Ubuntu 6.10 distribution and bug fixes for i386 kernels. - The package now looks for other subpackages with a version number as unpacked by separate tarball. Major changes for release strbcm-0.9.2.2 ----------------------------------------- - Support for most recent 2.6.18 kernels (including Fedora Core 5 with inode diet patch set). - Now builds 32-bit compatibility libraries and tests them against 64-bit kernel modules and drivers. The `make installcheck' target will now automatically test both 64-bit native and 32-bit compatibility versions, one after the other, on 64-bit platforms. - Added versions to all library symbols. - Many documentation updates for all OpenSS7 packages. Automated release file generation making for vastly improved and timely text documentation present in the release directory. - Dropped support for `LiS'. - Package will now support extended ranges of minor devices on 2.6 kernels under `Linux Fast-STREAMS' only. - Better detection of SUSE distributions, release numbers and SLES distributions: support for additional `SuSE' distributions on `ix86' as well as `x86_64'. Added distribution support includes `SLES 9', `SLES 9 SP2', `SLES 9 SP3', `SLES 10', `SuSE 10.1'. - Improved compiler flag generation and optimizations for recent `gcc' compilers and some idiosyncratic behaviour for some distributions (primarily SUSE). - Optimized compilation is now available also for user level programs in addition to kernel programs. Added new `--with-optimize' option to `configure' to accomplish this. - Added `--disable-devel' `configure' option to suppress building and installing development environment. This feature is for embedded or pure runtime targets that do not need the development environment (static libraries, manual pages, documentation). - Added `send-pr' script for automatic problem report generation. Initial release strbcm-0.9.2.1 ------------------------------- Initial autoconf/RPM packaging of the `strbcm' release. This is the initial release of the `OpenSS7 STREAMS Binary Compatibility Modules' package for `Linux Fast-STREAMS'. The ability to include pre-compiled STREAMS binaries was formerly part of the `Linux STREAMS' package, however, as the ability is also applicable to `Linux Fast-STREAMS', it was removed into a separate package. Once `Linux Fast-STREAMS' is production grade, this binary compatibility suite will be rolled back into the streams package as `LiS' is deprecated. ----- ========================================================================= Copyright (c) 2001-2007 OpenSS7 Corporation Copyright (c) 1997-2000 Brian Bidulock All Rights Reserved. Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies. 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