From jwillemsen at remedy.nl  Sun May  4 07:31:34 2025
From: jwillemsen at remedy.nl (Johnny Willemsen)
Date: Sun, 4 May 2025 14:31:34 +0200
Subject: ACE 8.0.3 and TAO 4.0.3 available for download
Message-ID: <c775e464-1a59-f957-6073-6f40479131c6@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 8.0.3 and TAO 
4.0.3 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-8.0.3

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
==============

. Deprecated ACE_Copy_Disabled in favor of deleted copy/assignment

. Replaced usage of ACE_MIN and ACE_MAX with std::min/std::max

. Add support for abstract paths to ACE_UNIX_ADDR

. Improve support for 64bit file sizes

. Minor fixes to ACE logging classes

. Use C++11 default for more classes

. GCC versions less than 9 and Clang versions less than 12 are
   no longer tested in GitHub Actions CI

. Dropped support for Embarcadero C++ Builder bcc32c and bcc64 compilers

. Updated support for Green Hills INTEGRITY and INTEGRITY-178 tuMP RTOS.
   Tested on INTEGRITY 11.4.6 and INTEGRITY-178 5.0.0.

. Thread names given to ACE_OS::thr_create are now passed down to the OS
   on Windows and on INTEGRITY.

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

. Add new CECShutdownWaitCompletion command line argument to CosEvent 
service in order to be able not to wait on any pending event on shutdown

. Fixed possible race condition when handling location forwards

. When no preferred interfaces are provided we don't query for all IP 
interfaces as that could be slow

. Threads created by TAO_Thread_Per_Connection_Handler now have names