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RIDL version 2.5.6 is a minor bugfix release and implements a few minor improvements over previous versions. RIDL is distributed as Ruby gem!

R2CORBA version 1.5.1 has been released.

This version implements the following changes:

• Updated to support the latest MRI Ruby versions (now supports MRI 1.9.3-2.2.0)
• Updated to support the latest JRuby version (1.7.19)
• Updated to support TAO <= 2.3.1
• Updated to support JacORB <= 3.5
• RIDL frontend upgraded to 2.5.5
• Discontinues MRI 1.8.x support

This release has been tested on Windows 32bit (MRI 1.9.3-2.1.5; JRuby) and 64bit (MRI 2.0.0-2.1.5; JRuby) as well as on Linux 64bit (MRI 1.9.3-2.2.0; JRuby).

The open source community has released on Tuesday July 30th 2019 a new ACE 6.5.6 and TAO 2.5.6 release. This release 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

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.

Changes to ACE (detailed changes)¶

• On Linux, the ACE_Log_Msg format specifier %t is now replaced with the system thread id provided by gettid(), instead of the much longer pthread id
• Added support for MQX
• Enhanced Android support

Changes to TAO (detailed changes)¶

• Fixed race condition in ImplRepo on server shutdown/restart (#889)

The open source community has released on Monday April 8th 2019 a new ACE 6.5.5 and TAO 2.5.5 release. This release 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

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.

Changes to ACE (detailed changes)¶

• Fixed several broken links due to the removal of Douglas Schmidt website at WashU
• ACE_Log_Msg (and therefore ACE_DEBUG and ACE_ERROR) now uses Android’s logging system (aka Logcat) by default in addition to stderr because stdout and stderr are discarded under normal circumstances. To disable this at runtime, run:
  

      ACE_LOG_MSG->clr_flags (ACE_Log_Msg::SYSLOG)
  

  
  To disable this at compile time include these lines in config.h:
  

      #define ACE_DEFAULT_LOG_FLAGS ACE_Log_Msg::STDERR
      #define ACE_DEFAULT_LOG_BACKEND_FLAGS 0
  

• On Android when statically linking to OpenSSL, prevent usage of the preloaded and unpredictable system SSL library when using ace_openssl.
• minizip has been moved from ACE to DANCE
• Add initial support for Visual Studio 2019
• Validated ACE for usage SLES15.0 x86_64 using 32bit g++ compiler
• Add optional argument for the receive address in ACE_SOCK_Dgram::recv

Changes to TAO (detailed changes)¶

• Fixed Memory Leaks in TAO_IDL caused by the addition of Annotations (#811)
• Changes in the Annotations API in TAO_IDL, see TAO/TAO_IDL/docs/annotations.md section titled TAO 2.5.5 for details.

The open source community has released on Monday April 8th 2019 a new CIAO 1.3.8 and DAnCE 1.3.8 release. These releases are available from the download location at http://download.dre.vanderbilt.edu/ under the heading “Latest CIAO Micro Release” and “Latest DAnCE Micro Release” or from the CIAO github release page or from the DAnCE github release page.

CIAO and DAnCE are shipped in source only packages where the CIAO package has to be extracted to ACE_wrappers/TAO/CIAO and the DAnCE package to ACE_wrappers/TAO/DAnCE.

Changes to CIAO (detailed changes)¶

• Minor enhancements and fixes

Changes to DAnCE (detailed changes)¶

• minizip has been moved from ACE to DAnCE

The open source community has released on Wednesday April 3rd 2019 a new OpenDDS release. This release is available from the github release page

Features added and bugs/fixes¶

This is an excerpt of the NEWS, for full change information see ChangeLog within the source distribution

• Service Participant, Transport Registry, RTPS libs updated to support certain Restart scenarios (#1081)
• Wrong entity_refs_ counter when deleting data reader in the TopicDescriptionImpl (#936)
• Add an include required for std::back_inserter (#965)
• DDS Security on VxWorks7 (#968)
• Fix unregister with nil handle (#1064)
• Install with java: Fix classpath for i2jrt.jar and i2jrt_compact.jar in .mpbs (#1079)

The open source community has released on Friday January 25th 2019 a new CIAO 1.3.7 and DAnCE 1.3.7 release. These releases are available from the download location at http://download.dre.vanderbilt.edu/ under the heading “Latest CIAO Micro Release” and “Latest DAnCE Micro Release” or from the CIAO github release page or from the DAnCE github release page.

CIAO and DAnCE are shipped in source only packages where the CIAO package has to be extracted to ACE_wrappers/TAO/CIAO and the DAnCE package to ACE_wrappers/TAO/DAnCE.

Changes to CIAO (detailed changes)¶

• Minor enhancements and fixes

Changes to DAnCE (detailed changes)¶

• Minor enhancements and fixes

The open source community has released on Thursday January 24th 2019 a new ACE 6.5.4 and TAO 2.5.4 release. This release 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

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.

Changes to ACE (detailed changes)¶

• Fix ACE_Vector::end(), which now correctly represents the end of the elements of the vector instead of the end of the base array.

Changes to TAO (detailed changes)¶

• Enhanced the ImR to better handle a huge number of servers which use the ImR heavily and each of them does a frequent shutdown/start cycle
• The TAO_IDL frontend library now parses all IDL4 annotation-related syntax: using and defining annotations. Use the tao_idl command-line options --idl-version and --unknown-annotations to control annotation parsing. Documentation on this feature is located in TAO/TAO_IDL/docs/annotations.md.
• TAO_IDL now will return an error status code when passing an invalid command line argument. Backends will have to support this behavior
  explicitly, see TAO/TAO_IDL/include/idl_defines.h for details. TAO_IDL also accepts new options such as -h, --help, --version, and --syntax-only, the latter of which won’t generate any files, just check syntax of the IDL file(s). See tao_idl -h for details.
• When using IDL_Files in MPC, generated files will now be placed in the current directory by default, instead of the directory of the IDL file. Use idlflags += -o <IDL_FILE_DIR> gendir = <IDL_FILE_DIR> to output generated files to where the IDL file is.

The open source community has released on Wednesday January 23nd 2019 a new OpenDDS release. This release is available from the github release page

Features added and bugs/fixes¶

This is an excerpt of the NEWS, for full change information see ChangeLog within the source distribution

• rtps_udp: enhanced generation of gaps for durable data (#1001)
• rtps_udp transport: improved handling of socket errors (#1002)
• Fixed a bug in contains_entity for DataReaders (#944)
• Fixed set_qos method for not enabled DataWriters and DataReaders (#955)
• Fixed requiring Conditions to be cleaned up in DataReaders (#958)
• Fixed a locking issue in transport with Security enabled (#933)
• Fixed total_count fields in on Offered/RequestedDeadlineMissed (#969)
• Security: Fixing uninitialized values reported by valgrind
• Support static builds with DDS Security enabled (#967)
• Fixing build when no-builtin-topic and security flags are both configured
• Configure: fixed detection of MSVC compiler versions
• Configure on Windows: allow Perl to be located in a directory with spaces
• Configure: follow redirects if using curl to download (#1025)
• Configure: Android support (#964)
• Configure: added for --host-tools option (part of #968)
• Make install awareness of user_macros.GNU and improved Java bindings support (#1022)

The open source community has released on Monday November 19th 2018 a new ACE 6.5.3 and TAO 2.5.3 release. This release 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

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.

Changes to ACE (detailed changes)¶

• Enhance Android support
• Fix AIX and Solaris linking rpath errors
• Add support for SSL_INCDIR/SSL_LIBDIR and XERCESC_INCDIR/XERCESC_LIBDIR to specify a custom include/lib dir as required for vcpkg versions of openssl/xercesc

Changes to TAO (detailed changes)¶

• Enhance ssliop and uiop corbaloc parsers