ACE/TAO

The open source community has released on Wednesday July 1st 2020 a new ACE 6.5.10 and TAO 2.5.10 release. This release is available from the usual download location at https://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)¶

• Add support for Embarcadero C++ Builder 10.4 Sydney using the classic compiler. ACE/TAO compile with the new 32/64 bit clang compilers but runtime tests show several runtime problems which makes them not safe to use (1121)
• Make a change in the ACE Process Manager to resolve an internal compiler error with Visual Studio 2019 16.5.x compilers (1114)
• Android enhancements for if_nameindex (1101)

Changes to TAO (detailed changes)¶

• TAO IDL Frontend annotation support extended: (1125)
  • All the direct contents of interfaces
  • Porttypes, eventtypes, components, and all their direct contents
  • Valuetypes and most of their direct contents
• TAO IDL now supports anonymous types when using IDL4. (1135)