OpenSS7 XNS Networking -- 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 XNS Networking package. Major changes for release strxns-0.9.2.5 ----------------------------------------- This is the OpenSS7 Project's fifth separate release from the OpenSS7 Project of the `OpenSS7 XNS Networking' package. These networking modules provide DLPI, NPI and Linux IP drivers, as well as providing CDI, DLPI and NPI header files. The package contains all the necessary manual pages and other documentation for XNS components in a separate autoconf tarball. This release is primarily a maintenance release supporting recent distributions and tool chains. This release is a stable production release for `Linux Fast-STREAMS'. 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 strxns package page (http://www.openss7.org/strxns_pkg.html). See `http://www.openss7.org/codefiles/strxns-0.9.2.5/ChangeLog' and `http://www.openss7.org/codefiles/strxns-0.9.2.5/NEWS' in the release for more information. Also, see the `strxns.pdf' manual in the release (also in html `http://www.openss7.org/strxns_manual.html'). For the news release, see `http://www.openss7.org/rel20070315_F.html'. Major changes for release strxns-0.9.2.4 ----------------------------------------- This is the OpenSS7 Project's fourth separate release from the OpenSS7 Project of the `OpenSS7 XNS Networking' package, formerly part of the (now deprecated) Linux STREAMS (LiS) package. These networking modules provide DLPI, NPI and Linux IP drivers, as well as providing CDI, DLPI and NPI header files. The package contains all the necessary manual pages and other documentation for XNS components in a separate autoconf tarball. This release is both a maintenance release and a feature release. The major new feature added is a fully "STREAMS" based implementation of the `np_ip(4)' driver. 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 patchset). - 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. `strxns' 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 strxns-0.9.2.3.rc3 --------------------------------------------- - 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. - 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. - 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. - This release candidate provides 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. - Added `--enable-devel' `configure' option for embedded targets. - Added `send-pr' script for automatic problem report generation. This was an internal alpha release. Major changes for release strxns-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). - 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 beta test release of the package. Major changes for release strxns-0.9.2.2 ----------------------------------------- This is primarily a bug fixes release. This release has been tested to build and install against both `LiS-2.18.2' and `streams-0.7a.4' on both 2.4 and 2.6 kernels as well as the `NexusWare' cross-build environment. This package is still largely untested and does not yet have a test suite. Major changes for release strxns-0.9.2.1 ----------------------------------------- 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. Initial release strxns-0.9.2-1 ------------------------------- Initial autoconf/RPM packaging of the `strxns' release. This was an internal alpha test release and was not released publicly. ----- ========================================================================= Copyright (c) 2001-2007 OpenSS7 Corporation Copyright (c) 1997-2000 Brian Bidulock All Rights Reserved. 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