Brian F. G. Bidulock
2007-01-09 09:57:13 UTC
streams-0.9.2.1 was released under GPLv2 on January 8, 2007.
The `OpenSS7 Linux Fast-STREAMS' package is a High-Performance
"STREAMS" framework for `Linux' that is compatible with `SVR 4.2 MP'
"STREAMS" and a host of other commercial `UNIX(R)' "STREAMS"
implementations, with complete debugging and production release
capabilities. It is as a high-performance, production replacement for
the buggy and now deprecated `Linux STREAMS (LiS)'.
This is the tenth `OpenSS7 Project' release of `Linux Fast-STREAMS'.
The release number has been moved from the 0.9a sequence to 0.9.2 to
indicate that the package has moved to a production grade. `LiS' has
been fully deprecated by this release and `Linux Fast-STREAMS' is now
the only STREAMS package contained in the OpenSS7 Master Package
(`openss7-0.9.2.D').
This release is a stable, production grade release for `Linux
Fast-STREAMS'. The release is primarily a maintenance release. Some
minor defect corrections have been applied, but no significant
development has occurred. The release provides the following
enhancements and fixes:
- Testing of, and a few bug corrections to, the strlog() feature.
Trace and error logging working well.
- Support for most recent 2.6.18 kernels (including Fedora Core 5
with inode diet patchset).
- The package now builds a replacement libLiS and libpLiS library so
that user applications written to work with LiS-2.18.1 through
LiS-2.18.4 do no need to be recompiled. Added versioning of all
library symbols in all three libraries.
- Minor bug fixes to STREAMS library. isastream(3) and fattach(3)
must not contain an asynchronous thread cancellation point, but
they could. Added asynchronous thread cancellation protection to
these functions to remove any thread cancellation points.
- Now builds 32-bit compatibility libraries, as well, 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.
- 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.
`streams' 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.
_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 streams package page (http://www.openss7.org/streams_pkg.html).
See `http://www.openss7.org/codefiles/streams-0.9.2.1/ChangeLog' and
`http://www.openss7.org/codefiles/streams-0.9.2.1/NEWS' in the release
for more information. Also, see the `STREAMS.pdf' manual in the
release (also in html `http://www.openss7.org/STREAMS_manual.html').
For the news release, see `http://www.openss7.org/rel20070108_K.html'.
--
Brian F. G. Bidulock
***@openss7.org
http://www.openss7.org/
The `OpenSS7 Linux Fast-STREAMS' package is a High-Performance
"STREAMS" framework for `Linux' that is compatible with `SVR 4.2 MP'
"STREAMS" and a host of other commercial `UNIX(R)' "STREAMS"
implementations, with complete debugging and production release
capabilities. It is as a high-performance, production replacement for
the buggy and now deprecated `Linux STREAMS (LiS)'.
This is the tenth `OpenSS7 Project' release of `Linux Fast-STREAMS'.
The release number has been moved from the 0.9a sequence to 0.9.2 to
indicate that the package has moved to a production grade. `LiS' has
been fully deprecated by this release and `Linux Fast-STREAMS' is now
the only STREAMS package contained in the OpenSS7 Master Package
(`openss7-0.9.2.D').
This release is a stable, production grade release for `Linux
Fast-STREAMS'. The release is primarily a maintenance release. Some
minor defect corrections have been applied, but no significant
development has occurred. The release provides the following
enhancements and fixes:
- Testing of, and a few bug corrections to, the strlog() feature.
Trace and error logging working well.
- Support for most recent 2.6.18 kernels (including Fedora Core 5
with inode diet patchset).
- The package now builds a replacement libLiS and libpLiS library so
that user applications written to work with LiS-2.18.1 through
LiS-2.18.4 do no need to be recompiled. Added versioning of all
library symbols in all three libraries.
- Minor bug fixes to STREAMS library. isastream(3) and fattach(3)
must not contain an asynchronous thread cancellation point, but
they could. Added asynchronous thread cancellation protection to
these functions to remove any thread cancellation points.
- Now builds 32-bit compatibility libraries, as well, 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.
- 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.
`streams' 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.
_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 streams package page (http://www.openss7.org/streams_pkg.html).
See `http://www.openss7.org/codefiles/streams-0.9.2.1/ChangeLog' and
`http://www.openss7.org/codefiles/streams-0.9.2.1/NEWS' in the release
for more information. Also, see the `STREAMS.pdf' manual in the
release (also in html `http://www.openss7.org/STREAMS_manual.html').
For the news release, see `http://www.openss7.org/rel20070108_K.html'.
--
Brian F. G. Bidulock
***@openss7.org
http://www.openss7.org/