OpenSS7 XNS Networking -- history of user visible changes. 2007-06-24
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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 XNS Networking package.
Major changes for release strxns-0.9.2.6
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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.
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.
- Suport for recent distributions and tool chains.
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.
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.
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