OpenSS7 STREAMS Terminals -- 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 Terminals package. Major changes for release strtty-0.9.2.3 ----------------------------------------- This is the third separate release from `The OpenSS7 Project' of the `OpenSS7 STREAMS Terminals' package. This package provides `pts' and `ptm' pseudo-terminal drivers, as well as an `ldterm' module. Additional modules are the `ptem', `ttcompat' and `pckt' modules. The package contains all the necessary manual pages and other documentation for terminal and pseudo-terminal components in a separate autoconf tarball. This release is a maintenance release providing support for 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 strtty-0.9.2.2 ----------------------------------------- This is the second separate release from `The OpenSS7 Project' of the `OpenSS7 STREAMS Terminals' package. This package provides `pts' and `ptm' pseudo-terminal drivers, as well as an `ldterm' module. Additional modules are the `ptem', `ttcompat' and `pckt' modules. The package contains all the necessary manual pages and other documentation for terminal and pseudo-terminal components in a separate autoconf tarball. This release is a maintenance release providing support for 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 kernels. - The package now looks for other subpackages with a version number as unpacked by separate tarball. Major changes for release strtty-0.9.2.1 ----------------------------------------- This is the first separate release from `The OpenSS7 Project' of the `OpenSS7 STREAMS Terminals' package. This package provides `pts' and `ptm' pseudo-terminal drivers, as well as an `ldterm' module. Additional modules are the `ptem', `ttcompat' and `pckt' modules. The package contains all the necessary manual pages and other documentation for terminal and pseudo-terminal components in a separate autoconf tarball. This release is the initial public release. - In this initial release, the package already supports a wide range of production distributions as it uses the same build environment as other OpenSS7 Project packages. - Support for most recent 2.6.18 kernels (including Fedora Core 5 with inode diet patch set). ----- ========================================================================= 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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