streams 0.9.2.1 Released

Description: OpenSS7 Old News.

Approved for Immediate Release

Jan 8, 2007
OpenSS7 today announced Release 0.9.2.1 of the Linux Fast-STREAMS streams package.

(Edmonton, Alberta -- Jan 8, 2007)   OpenSS7 today announced Release 0.9.2.1 of the Linux Fast-STREAMS streams package. The OpenSS7 Linux Fast-STREAMS package is a High-Performance STREAMS framework for Linux that is compatible with SVR 4.2 MP STREAMS and a host of other commercial UNIX(R) STREAMS implementations, with complete debugging and production release capabilities. It is as a high-performance, production replacement for the buggy and now deprecated Linux STREAMS (LiS).

This is the tenth OpenSS7 Project release of Linux Fast-STREAMS. This release is a stable, production grade release for Linux Fast-STREAMS and is part of the OpenSS7 Master Package (openss7-0.9.2.D).

This release is primarily a maintenance release. No significant defect corrections or development has been applied. This release is a stable production grade release of Linux Fast-STREAMS. Support for LiS is deprecated by this release.

The release provides the following enhancements and fixes:

• Testing of, and a few bug corrections to, the strlog() feature. Trace and error logging working well.
• The package now builds a replacement libLiS and libpLiS library so that user applications written to work with LiS-2.18.1 through LiS-2.18.4 do no need to be recompiled. Added versioning of all library symbols in all three libraries.
• Minor bug fixes to STREAMS library. isastream(3) and fattach(3) must not contain an asynchronous thread cancellation point, but they could. Added asynchronous thread cancellation protection to these functions to remove any thread cancellation points.
• Additional features supported in all packages (see master package release notes).

This is a public stable production grade release of the package: it deprecates previous releases. Please upgrade to the current release before reporting bugs.

As with other OpenSS7 releases, this release configures, compiles, installs and builds RPMs and DEBs for a wide range of Linux 2.4 and 2.6 RPM- and DPKG-based distributions, and can be used on production kernels without patching or recompiling the kernel.

This package is publicly released under the GNU Public License Version 2. The release is available as an autoconf tarball, SRPM, DSC, and set of binary RPMs and DEBs. See the downloads page for the autoconf tarballs, SRPMs and DSCs. See the streams package page for tarballs, SRPMs, DSCs, and binary RPMs and DEBs.

See ChangeLog and NEWS in the release for more information. Also, see the STREAMS.pdf manual in the release (also in html here).

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