From jwillemsen at remedy.nl  Fri Aug 22 01:49:40 2025
From: jwillemsen at remedy.nl (Johnny Willemsen)
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2025 08:49:40 +0200
Subject: ACE 8.0.5 and TAO 4.0.5 available for download!
Message-ID: <9e6b8a8e-e83d-b93a-4317-8fbad748450c@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 8.0.5 and TAO 
4.0.5 which is available from the github release page at:

https://github.com/DOCGroup/ACE_TAO/releases/tag/ACE%2BTAO-8_0_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.

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

. Fixed building ACE for Android with `uses_wchar=1`

. Add support for parallel make using Embarcadero bcc64x compiler

. Fixed compile errors when C++23 is enabled

. Updated thread name support to work with older Windows versions

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

. Extended DynamicAny and Valuetype logging

. Updated tao_idl code generation for IDL maps

. Threads created by TAO_Thread_Per_Connection_Handler now have shorter
   names because Linux limits thread names to 15 characters.