streams 0.9.2.4 Released

Description: OpenSS7 What's New.

Approved for Immediate Release

Oct 31, 2008
OpenSS7 today announced Release 0.9.2.4 of the Linux Fast-STREAMS streams package.

(Edmonton, Alberta -- Oct 31, 2008)   OpenSS7 today announced Release 0.9.2.4 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 another OpenSS7 Project release of Linux Fast-STREAMS. LiS was fully deprecated as of a previous release and Linux Fast-STREAMS is now the only STREAMS package contained in the OpenSS7 Master Package (since openss7-0.9.2.D).

This release is a stable, production grade release for Linux Fast-STREAMS. The release includes maintenance support for recent distributions and tool chain, but also includes some performance and feature upgrades and inspection bug fixes.

Major features since the last public release are as follows:

• Minor documentation corrections.
• Kernel module license made explicit GPL v2. And then changed back to GPL.
• License upgrade to AGPL Version 3.
• Modifications to build under Fedora 2.6.22.5-49 kernel. These changes also support 2.6.22.9-91.fc7 kernel.
• Added SNMP MIBs and AgentX sub-agent for STREAMS. This is a rather significant addition to Linux Fast-STREAMS which permits remote management of the entire STREAMS subsystem using SNMP. The agent is compatable with net-snmp and ucd-snmp back to ucd-snmp 4.2.5. This includes updates to the build process to support net-snmp packages all the way back to RedHat 7.2.
• Added the ability for the sc(4) STREAMS Configuration module to allow tuning STREAMS module info parameters and collect general purpose STREAMS statistics. Also, the module generates signals (SIGPOLL) when STREAMS configuration changes. See sc(4) for more information.
• Ability to strap out major documentation build and installation primarily for embedded targets.
• Improvements to common build process for embedded and cross-compile targets.
• Support for flex 2.5.33 in maintainer mode.
• Higher performance and updated performance paper.
• Modifications to build under Fedora 2.6.25-45.fc9 and 2.6.26.5-45.fc9 kernels.
• Updated tool chain to m4-1.4.12, autoconf-2.63 and texinfo-4.13.
• Conversion of RPM spec files to common approach for major subpackages.
• Updated references database for manual pages and roff(1) documents.
• Added test case 3.1.11.4 and modified test cases 3.2.1, 3.5.1 and 3.6.1 for the test-streams(8) tests suite executable to test bug fixes and avoid regressions. See bug #016 and #017 in BUGS or Bugs.
• Build system now builds yum(8) repositories for RPMs and apt-get(8) repositories for DEBs. Installation documentation has been updated to include details of repository install sourcesref.
• Added MODULE_VERSION to all modules and drivers.

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 Affero General Public License (AGPL) Version 3. 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, or Release Notes in the manual, for more information. Also, see the STREAMS.pdf manual in the release (also in html).

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