From jwillemsen at remedy.nl Thu Sep 7 03:43:22 2017 From: jwillemsen at remedy.nl (Johnny Willemsen) Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2017 10:43:22 +0200 Subject: [ciao-announce] ACE 6.4.5 and TAO 2.4.5 available for download Message-ID: <264e83ea-022d-1452-fb8f-2bc3b18b617b@remedy.nl> Hi all, Once again, thanks to the efforts of many developers, testers, and users, we are pleased to announce the micro release of ACE 6.4.5 and TAO 2.4.5 which is available from the usual download location at: http://download.dre.vanderbilt.edu/ under the heading "Latest Micro Release". Or from the github release page at: https://github.com/DOCGroup/ACE_TAO/releases/tag/ACE%2BTAO-6_4_5 The doxygen documentation for this release is also available. In addition to the packages combined of sources and generate makefiles, this release provides source-only packages for developers who use MPC to generate their own makefiles. We encourage you to download the new release, use it with your applications, and let us know if you encounter any problems. Please use the: $ACE_ROOT/PROBLEM-REPORT-FORM $MPC_ROOT/PROBLEM-REPORT-FORM $TAO_ROOT/PROBLEM-REPORT-FORM so that we have the proper version/platform/compiler/options you're using to report problems. We also request that you take a look at: $TAO_ROOT/docs/releasenotes/ for the status of various ongoing projects at the DOC group of Vanderbilt to move ACE and TAO forward. Overviews of our recent progress and upcoming plans are available at: $ACE_ROOT/NEWS $TAO_ROOT/NEWS The overall success rates for the test results gathered from all our daily builds is 98% for the ACE tests and 98% for the TAO tests. Please see: http://www.dre.vanderbilt.edu/scoreboard/ for a summary of these tests. As always, we appreciate your help in resolving any remaining problems. Please see: ACE_wrappers/docs/ACE-bug-process.html for an overview of our bug fixing policies. Moreover, please see: http://www.dre.vanderbilt.edu/support.html for information commercial support services available from various companies. The following is a list of key changes since the last major release. Please refer to the corresponding ChangeLog files, NEWS files, or Bugzilla entries for more details on the problem and the nature of fixes applied. ============== Changes to ACE ============== . Add support for OpenSSL 1.1. ACE users on Windows have to add openssl11=1 to their default.features file so that the correct OpenSSL library names are used. ============== Changes to TAO ============== . Extended TAO_IDL with a new -Gsd which enabled the generation of two additional static operations for each interface. _desc_repository_id to retrieve the repository id as string, second _desc_interface_name to return the interface name. Both can be useful in template meta programming use cases where we want to use the repository id or interface name of a specific type.