OpenSS7 STREAMS Compatibility -- history of user visible changes. 2008-10-31 $Id$ Copyright (c) 2001-2008 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 Compatibility' package. Major changes for release strcompat-0.9.2.7 -------------------------------------------- This is the seventh separate `OpenSS7 Project' release of the `OpenSS7 STREAMS Compatibility' package. The package was originally present in the `Linux Fast-STREAMS' `streams-0.7a.2' release package, but has been separated for five releases. This release is a stable, production grade release for `Linux Fast-STREAMS' and is part of the OpenSS7 Master Package (`openss7-0.9.2.G'). The release includes maintenance support for recent distributions and tool chain, but also includes some performance and feature upgrades and inspection bug fixes. It deprecates previous releases. Please upgrade before reporting bugs on previous releases. This release is primarily a maintenance release. Major features since the last public release are as follows: - Minor documentation corrections. - Kernel module license made explicit "GPL v2". And then changed back to "GPL". - License upgrade to `AGPL Version 3'. - Modifications to build under `Fedora' `2.6.22.5-49' kernel. These changes also support `2.6.22.9-91.fc7' kernel. - Ability to strap out major documentation build and installation primarily for embedded targets. - Improvements to common build process for embedded and cross-compile targets. - Build corrections for recent `RHAS4' kernels that define `irq_handler_t' with a 3 argument function template. - Build corrections for `XEN' kernels that define `paddr_t'. - Fixes for older 2.4 kernels. - Modifications to build under `Fedora' `2.6.25-45.fc9' and `2.6.26.5-45.fc9' kernels. - Updated tool chain to `m4-1.4.12', `autoconf-2.63' and `texinfo-4.13'. - Conversion of RPM spec files to common approach for major subpackages. - Updated references database for manual pages and roff documents. - Build system now builds `yum(8)' repositories for RPMs and `apt-get(8)' repositories for DEBs. Installation documentation has been updated to include details of repository install sourcesref. - Added `MODULE_VERSION' to all modules and drivers. - Significant rework of the internal implementation of the `mpscompat(9)' Mentat Portable STREAMS compatability functions that also affects the behaviour of the corresponding `osfcompat(9)', `aixcompat(9)', `maccompat(9)' and `hpuxcompat(9)' functions that depend on them. Added documentation for `mi_acquire(9)', `mi_acquire_sleep(9)' and `mi_release(9)'; also `mi_open_grab(9)' and `mi_close_put(9)'. A number of difficulties were discovered by the `OpenSS7 Project' in the MPS compatability functions. See `BUGS' in the release for more information. These the `mpscompat(9)' functions are now used extensively by modules and drivers under the `OpenSS7 Project' in favor of the previously used `os7compat(9)' functions. - Added a test driver and module for the purpose of testing the MPS compatability functions. _This is a public stable production grade release of the package: it deprecates previous releases. Please upgrade to the current release before reporting bugs._ As with other OpenSS7 releases, this release configures, compiles, installs and builds RPMs and DEBs for a wide range of Linux 2.4 and 2.6 RPM- and DPKG-based distributions, and can be used on production kernels without patching or recompiling the kernel. This package is publicly released under the `GNU Affero General Public License Version 3'. The release is available as an `autoconf' tarball, SRPM, DSC, and set of binary RPMs and DEBs. See the downloads page (http://www.openss7.org/download.html) for the `autoconf' tarballs, SRPMs and DSCs. For tarballs, SRPMs, DSCs and binary RPMs and DEBs, see the strcompat package page (http://www.openss7.org/strcompat_pkg.html). See `http://www.openss7.org/codefiles/strcompat-0.9.2.7/ChangeLog' and `http://www.openss7.org/codefiles/strcompat-0.9.2.7/NEWS' in the release for more information. Also, see the `strcompat.pdf' manual in the release (also in html `http://www.openss7.org/strcompat_manual.html'). For the news release, see `http://www.openss7.org/rel20081029_J.html'. Major changes for release strcompat-0.9.2.6 -------------------------------------------- This is the sixth separate `OpenSS7 Project' release of the `OpenSS7 STREAMS Compatibility' package. The package was originally present in the `Linux Fast-STREAMS' `streams-0.7a.2' release package, but has been separated for five releases. This release is a stable, production grade release for `Linux Fast-STREAMS' and is part of the OpenSS7 Master Package (`openss7-0.9.2.F'). It deprecates previous releases. Please upgrade before reporting bugs on previous releases. This release is primarily a maintenance release. Major features since the last public release are as follows: - Support build on openSUSE 10.2. - Support build on Fedora 7 and 2.6.21 kernel. - Rework of `mi_timer(9)' based timers with the addition of several new helper functions. Enhancements and minor corrections to some OpenSS7 specific compatibility functions. - 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 strcompat-0.9.2.5 -------------------------------------------- This is the fifth separate `OpenSS7 Project' release of the `OpenSS7 STREAMS Compatibility' package. The package was originally present in the `Linux Fast-STREAMS' `streams-0.7a.2' release package, but has been separated for five releases. This release is a stable, production grade release for `Linux Fast-STREAMS' and is part of the OpenSS7 Master Package (`openss7-0.9.2.E'). It deprecates previous releases. Please upgrade before reporting bugs on previous releases. This release is primarily a maintenance release. Some functionality of the package has been tested by its use in other packages and some defects corrected. Support for `LiS' was deprecated as of the previous release. Major features since the last public release are as follows: - Added versions to all exported symbols. Made OpenSS7 unique functions GPL export. - Improvements to the common build environment with better support for standalone package builds on 2.4 kernels. - Fixed bug found from inspection in `mi_copyout(9)' function. - Support for autoconf 2.61, automake 1.10 and gettext 0.16. - Support for Ubuntu 6.10 distribution and bug fixes for i386 kenels. - The package now looks for other subpackages with a version number as unpacked by separate tarball. Major changes for release strcompat-0.9.2.4 -------------------------------------------- This is the fourth separate `OpenSS7 Project' release of the `OpenSS7 STREAMS Compatibility' package. The package was originally present in the `Linux Fast-STREAMS' `streams-0.7a.2' release package, but has been separated for four releases. This release is a stable, production grade release for `Linux Fast-STREAMS' and is part of the OpenSS7 Master Package (`openss7-0.9.2.G'). It deprecates previous releases. Please upgrade before reporting bugs on previous releases. This release is primarily a maintenance release. Some functionality of the package has been tested by its use in other packages and some defects corrected. Support for `LiS' is deprecated as of this release. The release provides the following enhancements and fixes: - 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 support for Ubuntu and recent gcc compilers, including debian script corrections. - 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. Major changes for release strcompat-0.9.2.3 -------------------------------------------- This release is primarily to support additional compilers (gcc 4.0.2), architectures (x86_64, SMP, 32-bit compatibility), recent Linux distributions (EL4, SuSE 10, LE2006, OpenSuSE) and kernels (2.6.15). - Corrections for and testing of 64-bit clean compile and test runs on x86_64 architecture. Some bug corrections resulting from gcc 4.0.2 compiler warnings. - Changes to satisfy gcc 4.0.2 compiler. - Corrected build flags for Gentoo and 2.6.15 kernels as reported on mailing list. - Corrections for and testing of 64-bit clean compile and test runs on x86_64 architecture. Some bug corrections resulting from gcc 4.0.2 compiler warnings. - Initial corrections for and testing of SMP operation on Intel 630 Hyper-Threaded SMP on x86_64. This package should now run well on N-way Xeons even with Hyper-Threading enabled. - Corrections and validation of 32-bit compatibility over 64-bit on x86_64. Should apply well to other 64-bit architectures as well. This is a public beta test release of the package. Major changes for release strcompat-0.9.2.2 -------------------------------------------- This is primarily a bug fixes release and corrections resulting from testing. This is a major bug fix release. The previous release was largely untested. This release has been verified (conformance test suite passes) for operation with `Linux Fast-STREAMS' (`streams-0.7a.4'). Initial release strcompat-0.9.2.1 ---------------------------------- Initial autoconf/RPM packaging of the `strcompat' release. This is the initial release of the `OpenSS7 STREAMS Compatibility' package for `Linux Fast-STREAMS' (and LiS). These compatibility modules were formerly part of the `Linux Fast-STREAMS' package (`streams-0.7a.3'), however, as they were also applicable to `LiS', they have been removed into a separate package. Once `Linux Fast-STREAMS' is production grade, these compatibility modules will be rolled back into the streams package as `LiS' becomes deprecated. ----- ========================================================================= Copyright (c) 2001-2008 OpenSS7 Corporation Copyright (c) 1997-2000 Brian Bidulock All Rights Reserved. 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