From jwillemsen at remedy.nl  Mon May 11 02:35:12 2026
From: jwillemsen at remedy.nl (Johnny Willemsen)
Date: Mon, 11 May 2026 09:35:12 +0200
Subject: ACE 8.0.6 and TAO 4.0.6 available for download
Message-ID: <b517de13-0d26-0e96-97dd-68439333cb93@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 8.0.6 and TAO 
4.0.6 which is available from the github release page at:

https://github.com/DOCGroup/ACE_TAO/releases/tag/ACE%2BTAO-8_0_6

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 about 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
==============

. Support floating-point-based `std::chrono::duration` in `ACE_Time_Value`

. Don't disable inlining in a debug build with Embarcadero C++ Builder 
compilers

. Added checks to CDR boolean and boolean array demarshaling

. All issues from bugzilla.dre.vanderbilt.edu migrated to 
https://github.com/DOCGroup/bugzilla

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

. All issues from bugzilla.dre.vanderbilt.edu migrated to
   https://github.com/DOCGroup/bugzilla

. Add -ORBTransportIdleTimeout to purge idle transports after
   a configurable timeout, default is 0 (no purging of idle transports)