From jwillemsen at remedy.nl  Fri Aug  2 03:33:09 2024
From: jwillemsen at remedy.nl (Johnny Willemsen)
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2024 10:33:09 +0200
Subject: ACE 8.0.1 and TAO 4.0.1 available for download
Message-ID: <dd5cc502-cc65-e2d2-ba15-fd84d8ff93db@remedy.nl>


Hi all,

Once again, thanks to the efforts of many developers, testers, and 
users, we are pleased to announce the major release of ACE 8.0.1 and TAO 
4.0.1 which is available from the usual download location at:

https://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-8.0.1

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.

Overviews of our recent changes 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:

https://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:

https://github.com/DOCGroup/ACE_TAO/wiki/ACE-and-TAO-Commercial-support

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 github 
issues for more details on the problem and the nature of fixes applied.

==============
Changes to ACE
==============

. When using the Embarcadero C++ Builder bcc64x compiler now bcc64x is
   used as linker instead of ld.lld

==============
Changes to TAO
==============

- TAO_IDL:
   - Support the following IDL v4 features (may not work everywhere in TAO):
     - Empty structs
     - `octet` and `wchar` union discriminators
     - Allow using `typedef`s of `int8` and `uint8` as union discriminators
     - Allow using empty parentheses in annotation applications to
       workaround syntax errors when an annotation with no arguments has to
       be followed by a complete scoped name:
         `@example_annotation() ::ex::ExampleType`
       This is a proposed solution to an IDL spec issue.
     - Reserve the `bitfield`, `bitmask`, and `bitset` keywords in IDL v4
       (these are not implemented yet)
   - Allow using `map` as an identifier in IDL v3 again