OpenSS7 XTI/TLI Networking -- history of user visible changes. 2007-03-15
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Copyright (c) 2001-2007 OpenSS7 Corporation.
Copyright (c) 1997-2000 Brian Bidulock
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The sections that follow provide information on OpenSS7 releases of the
OpenSS7 XTI/TLI Networking package.
Major changes for release strxnet-0.9.2.10
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This `OpenSS7 Project' release is another separate release of the
`OpenSS7 XTI/TLI Networking' package whose components were formerly
part of the `strinet' package. These networking modules provide TPI
and XTI/TLI library, as well as providing TPI and XTI header files.
The package contains all the necessary manual pages and other
documentation, including a reprint of the TPI 1.5 specification, for
XTI components. The package is packaged as an OpenSS7 style autoconf
tarball.
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').
This release is primarily a maintenance release to support 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.
_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 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 strxnet package page (http://www.openss7.org/strxnet_pkg.html).
See `http://www.openss7.org/codefiles/strxnet-0.9.2.10/ChangeLog' and
`http://www.openss7.org/codefiles/strxnet-0.9.2.10/NEWS' in the release
for more information. Also, see the `strxnet.pdf' manual in the
release (also in html `http://www.openss7.org/strxnet_manual.html').
For the news release, see `http://www.openss7.org/rel20070315_E.html'.
Major changes for release strxnet-0.9.2.9
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This `OpenSS7 Project' release is another separate release of the
`OpenSS7 XTI/TLI Networking' package whose components were formerly
part of the `strinet' package. These networking modules provide TPI
and XTI/TLI library, as well as providing TPI and XTI header files.
The package contains all the necessary manual pages and other
documentation, including a reprint of the TPI 1.5 specification, for
XTI components. The package is packaged as an OpenSS7 style autoconf
tarball.
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').
This release is primarily a maintenance release. No significant defect
corrections or development has been applied. This release is a stable
production release for `Linux Fast-STREAMS'. 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).
- Added Network Services Library containing network selection
facility as well as name-to-address mapping functions ala ONC RPC.
This library has subsequently been moved to the `strnxsl' package.
- 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'.
- 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.
`strxnet' 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.
Major changes for release strxnet-0.9.2.8
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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).
This is primarily a maintenance release. Validated for operation on
x86_64 SMP kernel using Linux Fast-STREAMS. Changes included to handle
__LP64__ kernels. Corrected build flags for Gentoo and 2.6.15 kernels
as reported on mailing list. Corrects one bug from inspection.
- Changes necessary for __LP64__ compatible builds. Changes to
support 32-bit ioctl compatibility for __LP64__ architectures.
Binary compatibility should not have been disrupted. At the same
time as the ioctl32 changes, TRANSPARENT ioctl support for most of
the IO controls for the ldl(4) driver has been added.
- Changes to satisfy gcc 4.0.2 compiler.
- 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.
- Corrected build flags for Gentoo and 2.6.15 kernels as reported on
mailing list.
- 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 stable production release of the package: it
deprecates previous releases. Please upgrade to the current release
before reporting bugs._
Major changes for release strxnet-0.9.2.7
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This is primarily a bug fixes release. This release has been verified
(conformance test suite passes) for operation with Linux Fast-STREAMS
(streams-0.7a.4). Some test cases were updated because LiS was not
operating correctly on pipes (does not send SIGPIPE on write error
contrary to POSIX).
Major changes for release strxnet-0.9.2.6
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With this release version numbers were changed to reflect an upstream
version only to be consistent with other OpenSS7 package releases. All
`RPM' release numbers will be `-1$(PACKAGE_RPMEXTRA)' and all `Debian'
release numbers will be `_0'. If you wish to apply patches and release
the package, please bump up the release number and apply a suitable
release suffix for your organization. We leave `Debian' release number
`_1' reserved for your use, so you can still bundle the source in the
`.dsc' file.
Major changes for this release include build against Linux 2.6 kernels
and popular distributions based on the 2.6 kernel as well as wider
distribution support. The package also supports both `LiS-2.18.1' as
well as `streams-0.7a' on both kernels.
Removed `XNS' kernel modules, header files and documentation to a
separate `strxns-0.9.2-1' package and `INET' kernel modules, header
files and documentation to a separate `strinet-0.9.2-1' package.
Major changes for release strxnet-0.9.2-5
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Dropped RPM epoch to 0 from 1 in preparation for RPM release. Bumped
RPM release to 5.
Minor corrections: made `SCTP' manual pages conditional on `OpenSS7
SCTP' kernel.
Updated documentation and provided improvements to build process
applied to other packages. This includes improvements to creation of
`info' and `pdf' manuals. Update `tirdwr' and `timod' manual page.
Removed INET package from `strxnet-0.9.2-5' release. This has now been
moved to the `strxns-0.9.2'(1) package. Removed XNS header files and
manual pages for CDI, DLPI and NPI to that package. Also removed
`test-inet_raw', `test-inet_udp' and `test-inet_tcp' test programs to
that package. Removed `/dev/inet' driver to that package. Stripped
out the -dev- RPM subpackage as there are no devices left in the
package. Adjusted the virtual package provides naming to a more
rational approach. Adjusted kernel module installation process to
accommodate.
Genksyms now generates kernels symbols for all combinations of SMP and
CONFIG_REGPARM kernels allowing a single modversions header file.
Improved manual pages `automake' file fragment (`am/man.am') to
accommodate top-level manual pages (this was really for the `netperf'
release).
---------- Footnotes ----------
(1) *Note About This Manual: (strxns)Top.
Major changes for release strxnet-0.9.2-4
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Changes to compile, install. Now builds rpms for `Fedora Core 1 (FC1)',
`Whitebox Enterprise Linux (WBEL)' and `RedHat Enterprise Linux (EL3)'.
Included explicit epoch in internal dependencies in `.spec' file for RPM
versions 4.2.1, 4.2.2 and higher. Added hugemem kernel detection and
moved `getpmsg' and `putpmsg' manual pages.
Correction to symbolic linking and system map file location during
non-rpm `autoconf' installation.
Correction to zero maxlen behaviour in `t_rcvconnect()'.
Major changes for release strxnet-0.9.2-3
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Added check for CONFIG_REGPARM, addition of `-mregparm=3' CFLAGS,
addition of `regparm_' prefix for exported kernel symbols.
Minor corrections to separate build directory install of devices and
caching of detected kernel symbols.
Added an option for suppression of exported symbol versions
(`--without-modversions').
Major changes for release strxnet-0.9.2-2
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A couple of corrections to the build process reported by Gurol.
Changed order of build in `make rebuild' target to build tools last so
that the rpm debug package is build correctly on `RedHat 9'.
Changed MODULE_PARM to static so that `make install-strip' does not
strip module parameter symbols.
Initial release strxnet-0.9.2-1
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Initial autoconf/RPM packaging of the `strxnet' release.
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