OpenSS7 ISO Stack -- history of user visible changes. 2007-03-15 $Id$ 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 ISO Stack package. Initial release striso-0.9.2.2 ------------------------------- This is the second open source release of the `OpenSS7 ISO Stack' package. This release contains modules and drivers formerly only available with Commercial releases of the `strss7' package and which are only recently available as open source with the release of this package. With OpenSS7 Master Package release `openss7-0.9.2.D', the ISO/OSI components were separated from the `strss7' package and placed in this package. Not all of the ISO/OSI components previously part of the `strss7' package have been strapped into this release. Components will be re-validated against `Linux Fast-STREAMS' on a module-by-module and driver-by-driver basis. See `TODO' in the release, or `Schedule', in the manual, for information about the release schedule. In this initial release, the major component first available is LAPB. `lapb(4)' is a pushable "STREAMS" module that is pushed over a `cdi(4)' HDLC channel to form an X.25 data link providing the Data Link Provider Interface, `dlpi(7)'. A complete test suite will be available in a further release. Subsequent releases in 1Q 2007 will include the additional full ISO/OSI X.25< CONS, CLNS, and TP0 through TP4, drivers with conformance test suites. Major features since the last public 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 kenels. - The package now looks for other subpackages with a version number as unpacked by separate tarball. _This is a public alpha release of the package. Please see `README-alpha' in the release or `Maturity', in the manual._ This package is currently incomplete. It is being released as a reference point for the community. If you are interested in completion of this package, contact . 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 General Public License Version 2'. 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 striso package page (http://www.openss7.org/striso_pkg.html). See `http://www.openss7.org/codefiles/striso-0.9.2.2/ChangeLog' and `http://www.openss7.org/codefiles/striso-0.9.2.2/NEWS' in the release for more information. Also, see the `striso.pdf' manual in the release (also in html `http://www.openss7.org/striso_manual.html'). For the news release, see `http://www.openss7.org/rel20070315_8.html'. Initial release striso-0.9.2.1 ------------------------------- Initial autoconf/RPM packaging of the `striso' release. This is the initial open source release of the `OpenSS7 ISO Stack' package. This release contains modules and drivers formerly only available with Commercial releases of the `strss7' package and which are only recently available as open source with the release of this package. With OpenSS7 Master Package release `openss7-0.9.2.D', the ISO/OSI components were separated from the `strss7' package and placed in this package. Not all of the ISO/OSI components previously part of the `strss7' package have been strapped into this release. Components will be re-validated against `Linux Fast-STREAMS' on a module-by-module and driver-by-driver basis. See `TODO' in the release, or `Schedule', in the manual, for information about the release schedule. In this initial release, the major component first available is LAPB. `lapb(4)' is a pushable "STREAMS" module that is pushed over a `cdi(4)' HDLC channel to form an X.25 data link providing the Data Link Provider Interface, `dlpi(7)'. A complete test suite will be available in a further release. Subsequent releases in 1Q 2007 will include the additional full ISO/OSI X.25< CONS, CLNS, and TP0 through TP4, drivers with conformance test suites. Initial release striso-0.9.2.1.rc3 ----------------------------------- Third release candidate. - 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 versioning of 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'. - Updated `init' scripts for proper addition and removal of modules. - Start assigning majors at major device number 231 instead of major device number 230. Assign major device number 230 explicitly to the clone device. Package will now support extended ranges of minor devices on 2.6 kernels under `Linux Fast-STREAMS' only. `striso' now supports expanded addressable minor device numbers, permitting 2^16 addressable minor devices per major device number on 2.6 kernels: `LiS' cannot support this change. - 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. - The package will now build doxygen(1) html documentation with the 'doxy' make target. See 'make help' or README-make in the distribution for more information. This was an internal alpha test release and was not released publicly. Initial release striso-0.9.2.1.rc2 ----------------------------------- Second release candidate. - Added `--enable-devel' `configure' option for embedded targets. - Added `send-pr' script for automatic problem report generation. This was an internal alpha test release and was not released publicly. Initial release striso-0.9.2.1rc1 ---------------------------------- First release candidate. - Initial package skeleton including `Installation and Reference Manual' and all necessary files and directories. 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