OpenSS7 Linux Native SCTP -- history of user visible changes. 2007-06-24 $Id$ Copyright (c) 2001-2007 OpenSS7 Corporation. Copyright (c) 1997-2000 Brian Bidulock See the end for copying conditions (for this file). The sections that follow provide information on OpenSS7 releases of the OpenSS7 Linux Native SCTP package. Major changes for release sctp-0.2.26 -------------------------------------- This is the twenty-sixth release of the Linux Native (Sockets) SCTP from the OpenSS7 Project. This release, as with other releases, on builds and installs on 2.4 kernels. This package is not as important to the OpenSS7 Project as the STREAMS version of SCTP, which provides the basis for all of the SIGTRAN components for the OpenSS7 stacks. Also, the STREAMS version runs on both 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. This is a stable production release: it deprecates previous releases. Please upgrade to the current release before reporting bugs. This is primarily a maintenance release correcting reported bugs, but also includes the latest packaging improvements. Major features since the last public release are as follows: - Support build on openSUSE 10.2. - Support build on Fedora 7 with 2.6.21 kernel. - Support build on CentOS 5.0 (RHEL5). - Support build on Ubuntu 7.04. - Updated to gettext 0.16.1. - Changes to support build on 2.6.20-1.2307.fc5 and 2.6.20-1.2933.fc6 kernel. - Supports build on Fedora Core 6. - Support for recent distributions and tool chains. Major changes for release sctp-0.2.25 -------------------------------------- This is the twenty-fifth release of the Linux Native (Sockets) SCTP from the OpenSS7 Project. This release, as with other releases, on builds and installs on 2.4 kernels. This package is not as important to the OpenSS7 Project as the STREAMS version of SCTP, which provides the basis for all of the SIGTRAN components for the OpenSS7 stacks. Also, the STREAMS version runs on both 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. This is a stable production release: it deprecates previous releases. Please upgrade to the current release before reporting bugs. This is primarily a maintenance release correcting reported bugs, but also includes the latest packaging improvements. Major features since the last public release are as follows: - Support for autoconf 2.61, automake 1.10 and gettext 0.16. - Support for Ubuntu 6.10 distribution and bug fixes for i386 kernels. Major changes for release sctp-0.2.24 -------------------------------------- This is the twenty-fourth release of the Linux Native (Sockets) SCTP from the OpenSS7 Project. This release, as with other releases, on builds and installs on 2.4 kernels. This package is not as important to the OpenSS7 Project as the STREAMS version of SCTP, which provides the basis for all of the SIGTRAN components for the OpenSS7 stacks. Also, the STREAMS version runs on both 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. This is a stable production release: it deprecates previous releases. Please upgrade to the current release before reporting bugs. This is primarily a maintenance release correcting reported bugs, but also includes the latest packaging improvements. Following are highlights of some of the changes since the last release: - Support for (configure but not build on) most recent 2.6.18 kernels (including Fedora Core 5 with inode diet patch set). - Added `send-pr' scripts for automatic problem report generation. - Now builds 32-bit compatibility libraries and tests them against 64-bit kernel modules and drivers. The `make installcheck' target will now automatically test both 64-bit native and 32-bit compatibility versions, one after the other, on 64-bit platforms. - Improved compiler flag generation and optimizations for recent `gcc' compilers and some idiosyncratic behaviour for some distributions (primarily SUSE). - Optimized compilation is now available also for user level programs in addition to kernel programs. Added new `--with-optimize' option to `configure' to accomplish this. - Better detection of SUSE distributions, release numbers and SLES distributions: support for additional `SuSE' distributions on `ix86' as well as `x86_64'. Added distribution support includes `SLES 9', `SLES 9 SP2', `SLES 9 SP3', `SLES 10', `SuSE 10.1'. - Many documentation updates for all OpenSS7 packages. Automated release file generation making for vastly improved and timely text documentation present in the release directory. - Added `--disable-devel' `configure' option to suppress building and installing development environment. This feature is for embedded or pure runtime targets that do not need the development environment (static libraries, manual pages, documentation). - Added `send-pr' script for automatic problem report generation. - Fixed problems with unresolved symbols on some systems. Fixed glaring error in `sctp_init' preventing kernel module from loading. - Added init scripts and system control configuration data. Removed old preload approach to kernel module loading. Major changes for release sctp-0.2.23 -------------------------------------- Corrections for and testing of 64-bit clean compile and test runs on x86_64 architecture. Some bug corrections resulting from gcc 4.0.2 compiler warnings. Corrected build flags for Gentoo and 2.6.15 kernels as reported on mailing list. Major changes for release sctp-0.2.22 -------------------------------------- This is primarily a bug fixes release and corrections resulting from testing. This is a major bug fix release. The previous release was largely untested. Major changes for release sctp-0.2.21 -------------------------------------- With this release version numbers were changed to reflect an upstream version only to be consistent with other OpenSS7 package releases. All `RPM' release numbers will be `-1$(PACKAGE_RPMEXTRA)' and all `Debian' release numbers will be `_0'. If you wish to apply patches and release the package, please bump up the release number and apply a suitable release suffix for your organization. We leave `Debian' release number `_1' reserved for your use, so you can still bundle the source in the `.dsc' file. Improved build process. Not publicly released. Initial release sctp-0.2.20-1 ------------------------------ Initial autoconf/RPM packaging of the `sctp' release. The `OpenSS7 Linux Native SCTP' existed before as a kernel patch for the Linux kernel. This is an `autoconf/rpm' packaging release of `Linux Native SCTP' that builds and installs separate from the Linux kernel tree. Not publicly released. ----- ========================================================================= Copyright (c) 2001-2007 OpenSS7 Corporation Copyright (c) 1997-2000 Brian Bidulock All Rights Reserved. Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies. 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