OpenSS7 STREAMS Sockets -- history of user visible changes. 2008-10-31
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Copyright (c) 2001-2008 OpenSS7 Corporation.
Copyright (c) 1997-2000 Brian Bidulock
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The sections that follow provide information on OpenSS7 releases of the
`OpenSS7 STREAMS Sockets' package.
Major changes for release strsock-0.9.2.4
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This is the fourth separate `OpenSS7 Project' release of the
`OpenSS7 STREAMS Sockets' package whose components were formerly part
of the `strss7', `strxnet' and `streams' packages. These networking
modules provide the Sockets library. The package contains all the
necessary manual pages and other documentation. The package is
packaged as an OpenSS7 style autoconf tarball.
This is the fourth alpha release 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.
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'.
- Support for flex 2.5.33 in maintainer mode.
- Ability to strap out major documentation build and installation
primarily for embedded targets.
- Improvements to common build process for embedded and
cross-compile targets.
- 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.
- Several important bug fixes for thread safety of the socket
library: see `BUGS' in the release for more information.
_This is a public alpha release of the package: it deprecates previous
releases. Please upgrade to the current release before reporting bugs.
Please see `README-alpha' in the release, or `Maturity',in the manual._
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 strsock package page (http://www.openss7.org/strsock_pkg.html).
See `http://www.openss7.org/codefiles/strsock-0.9.2.4/ChangeLog' and
`http://www.openss7.org/codefiles/strsock-0.9.2.4/NEWS' in the release
for more information. Also, see the `strsock.pdf' manual in the
release (also in html `http://www.openss7.org/strsock_manual.html').
For the news release, see `http://www.openss7.org/rel20081029_C.html'.
Major changes for release strsock-0.9.2.3
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This `OpenSS7 Project' release is the third separate release of the
`OpenSS7 STREAMS Sockets' package whose components were formerly part
of the `strss7', `strxnet' and `streams' packages. These networking
modules provide the Sockets library. The package contains all the
necessary manual pages and other documentation. The package is
packaged as an OpenSS7 style autoconf tarball.
This is the third alpha release and is part of the OpenSS7 Master
Package (`openss7-0.9.2.F'). This release is primarily a maintenance
release supporting recent distributions and tool chains.
Major features since the last public 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 strsock-0.9.2.2
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This `OpenSS7 Project' release is the second separate release of the
`OpenSS7 STREAMS Sockets' package whose components were formerly part
of the `strss7', `strxnet' and `streams' packages. These networking
modules provide the Sockets library. The package contains all the
necessary manual pages and other documentation. The package is
packaged as an OpenSS7 style autoconf tarball.
This is the second alpha release for `Linux Fast-STREAMS' and is part of
the OpenSS7 Master Package (`openss7-0.9.2.E'). This release is
primarily a maintenance release supporting recent distributions and
tool chains.
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.
Major changes for release strsock-0.9.2.1
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This `OpenSS7 Project' release is the first separate release of the
`OpenSS7 STREAMS Sockets' package whose components were formerly part
of the `strss7', `strxnet' and `streams' packages. These networking
modules provide the Sockets library. The package contains all the
necessary manual pages and other documentation. The package is
packaged as an OpenSS7 style autoconf tarball.
This is the initial alpha release for `Linux Fast-STREAMS' and is part
of the OpenSS7 Master Package (`openss7-0.9.2.D').
This release is the initial public release.
- Support for most recent 2.6.18 kernels (including Fedora Core 5
with inode diet patchset).
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