[tao-announce] ACE 6.4.7 and TAO 2.4.7 available for download

[Johnny Willemsen]

Hi all,

Once again, thanks to the efforts of many developers, testers, and
users, we are pleased to announce the micro release of ACE 6.4.7 and TAO
2.4.7 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_7

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

. Added a new, optional argument named ipv6_only to:
    ACE_Acceptor::ACE_Acceptor
    ACE_Acceptor::open
    ACE_SOCK_Dgram::ACE_SOCK_Dgram
    ACE_SOCK_Dgram::open
  If ipv6_only is 0/false (the default) the socket will accept
  both IPv6 and IPv4 connections/datagrams. If ipv6_only is
  1/true the socket will only accept IPv6.
  This behavior only applies when ACE_HAS_IPV6 is true and the
  local-side IP address is the generic localhost IP address.

. Integrated some changes from XSC into XML Utils

. Enable ACE_HAS_CPP11 when we have clang with C++11 enabled

. Added support for cross compiling using MinGW on a Linux host

. Added support for FreeBSD 11

. Fixed issue ACE_Singleton was broken after ACE::fini, ACE::init
(GitHub #554)

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

. TAO_IDL parses and discards IDLv4 annotations (applying, not defining)

. Fixed Bug 1220 as it applies to the SHMIOP transport.