OpenSS7 INET Networking -- 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 INET Networking package. Major changes for release strinet-0.9.2.6 ------------------------------------------ This `OpenSS7 Project' release is another separate add-on package release of the `OpenSS7 INET Networking' package that was formerly present in the (long deprecated) `LiS' package. The networking drivers are provided, as well as the TPI and XTI header files for INET and loop back operation. The package contains all the necessary manual packages and other documentation for INET components in a separate autoconf tarball. This release is a stable, production grade release for `Linux Fast-STREAMS' and is part of the OpenSS7 Master Package (`openss7-0.9.2.F'). This release is primarily a maintenance release to support recent distributions and tool chains. 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 strinet-0.9.2.5 ------------------------------------------ This `OpenSS7 Project' release is another separate add-on package release of the `OpenSS7 INET Networking' package that was formerly present in the (long deprecated) `LiS' package. The networking drivers are provided, as well as the TPI and XTI header files for INET and loop back operation. The package contains all the necessary manual packages and other documentation for INET components in a separate autoconf tarball. This release is a stable, production grade release for `Linux Fast-STREAMS' and is part of the OpenSS7 Master Package (`openss7-0.9.2.F'). This release is primarily a maintenance release to support recent distributions and tool chains. Major features since the last public release are as follows: - Improvements to the common build environment with better support for standalone package builds on 2.4 kernels. - Support for autoconf 2.61, automake 1.10 and gettext 0.16. - Support for Ubuntu 6.10 distribution and bug fixes for i386 kenels. - The package now looks for other subpackages with a version number as unpacked by separate tarball. Major changes for release strinet-0.9.2.4 ------------------------------------------ This `OpenSS7 Project' release is another separate add-on package release of the `OpenSS7 INET Networking' package that was formerly present in the (now deprecated) `LiS' package. The networking drivers are provided, as well as the TPI and XTI header files for INET and loop back operation. The package contains all the necessary manual packages and other documentation for INET components in a separate autoconf tarball. This release is a stable, production grade release for `Linux Fast-STREAMS' and is part of the OpenSS7 Master Package (`openss7-0.9.2.F'). This release is both a maintenance release and a feature release. The major new feature added is a fully "STREAMS" based implementation of the `rawip(4)' and `udp(4)' drivers. This release is a stable production release for `Linux Fast-STREAMS'. Support for `LiS' is deprecated as of this release. The release provides the following enhancements and fixes: - Support for most recent 2.6.18 kernels (including Fedora Core 5 with inode diet patch set). - Fixed buffer leak in `ss_sock_sendmsg' reported by John Wenker. Significant rewrite of the ss_sock_sendmsg function. Loader optimizations for streams-inet driver. - 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. - Many documentation updates for all OpenSS7 packages. Automated release file generation making for vastly improved and timely text documentation present in the release directory. - Dropped support for `LiS'. - Updated `init' scripts for proper addition and removal of modules. - Start assigning majors at major device number 231 instead of major device number 230. Assign major device number 230 explicitly to the clone device. Package will now support extended ranges of minor devices on 2.6 kernels under `Linux Fast-STREAMS' only. `strinet' now supports expanded addressable minor device numbers, permitting 2^16 addressable minor devices per major device number on 2.6 kernels: `LiS' cannot support this change. - 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'. - 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. - 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. Major changes for release strinet-0.9.2.3 ------------------------------------------ This release is primarily to support additional compilers (gcc 4.0.2), architectures (x86_64, SMP, 32-bit compatibility), recent Linux distributions (EL4, SuSE 10, LE2006, OpenSuSE) and kernels (2.6.15). This is primarily a maintenance release. Validated for operation on x86_64 SMP kernel using Linux Fast-STREAMS. Changes included to handle __LP64__ kernels. Corrected build flags for Gentoo and 2.6.15 kernels as reported on mailing list. Corrects several bugs reported by project sponsors. - Changes necessary for __LP64__ compatible builds. Changes to support 32-bit ioctl compatibility for __LP64__ architectures. Binary compatibility should not have been disrupted. At the same time as the ioctl32 changes, TRANSPARENT ioctl support for most of the IO controls for the ldl(4) driver has been added. - Changes to satisfy gcc 4.0.2 compiler. - 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. - Initial corrections for and testing of SMP operation on Intel 630 Hyper-Threaded SMP on x86_64. This package should now run well on N-way Xeons even with Hyper-Threading enabled. - Corrections and validation of 32-bit compatibility over 64-bit on x86_64. Should apply well to other 64-bit architectures as well. This is a public gamma release of the package. Major changes for release strinet-0.9.2.2 ------------------------------------------ This is primarily a bug fixes release. This release has been verified (conformance test suite passes) for operation with Linux Fast-STREAMS (streams-0.7a.4). Some test cases were updated because LiS was not operating correctly on pipes (does not send SIGPIPE on write error contrary to POSIX). Major changes for release strinet-0.9.2.1 ------------------------------------------ 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. Major changes for this release include build against Linux 2.6 kernels and popular distributions based on the 2.6 kernel as well as wider distribution support. The package also supports both `LiS-2.18.1' as well as `streams-0.7a' on both kernels. Initial release strinet-0.9.2-1 -------------------------------- Initial autoconf/RPM packaging of the `strinet' release. This was an internal alpha test release and was not released publicly. ----- ========================================================================= 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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