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2018090901 bootstrap 1.1.12 Released. bootstrap v1.1.12 is now available. bootstrap is a bash script that makes it easier for developers to manage autotools-based projects for multiple configuration environments. This release corrects a defect whereby GNU make would not be found on some FreeBSD systems when using the -config or other options that result in running a generated configure script.

2017 News

2017112801 libssrcspread 1.0.15 Released. libssrcspread v1.0.15 (providing C++, Lua, Perl, Python, and Ruby bindings for the Spread group communication system) has been released. This release fixes a bug in the ScatterMessage construction that could cause a message reception error if clear() was not called before the receive call.

2017112601 libssrcspread 1.0.14 Released. libssrcspread v1.0.14 (providing C++, Lua, Perl, Python, and Ruby bindings for the Spread group communication system) has been released. This release fixes a bug in ScatterMessage that could result in message parts reporting a size of 0 even when they contained a received message payload.

2017041201 Vareos adds support for Microsoft Edge. Vareos Technology Preview 4 has been released, featuring support for Microsoft Edge and fixing various browser-specific issues.

2017041101 libssrcspread 1.0.13 Released. libssrcspread v1.0.13 (providing C++, Lua, Perl, Python, and Ruby bindings for the Spread group communication system) has been released. This release adds Error::IllegalTime corresponding to ILLEGAL_TIME added in Spread 5.0.

2017011601 Ssrc Wisp 1.3.1 Released. Ssrc Wisp v1.3.1 is now available. This release simplifies make_smart_ptr and generalizes it to allow specialization for arbitrary smart pointer types. The libtool version number has also been updated, which should have been done for the 1.3.0 release.

2017010901 Ssrc Wisp 1.3.0 Released. Ssrc Wisp v1.3.0 has been released, containing minor improvements and changing applicable features from boost to std::.

2016 News

2016102401 bootstrap 1.1.11 Released. bootstrap v1.1.11 is now available. bootstrap is a bash script that makes it easier for developers to manage autotools-based projects for multiple configuration environments. This release corrects a defect preventing recently-added -config-file and -src-dir options from working correctly with relative path nbames.

2016090101 bootstrap 1.1.10 Released. bootstrap v1.1.10 is now available. bootstrap is a bash script that makes it easier for developers to manage autotools-based projects for multiple configuration environments. This release adds -config-file and -src-dir options, allowing the config file and top source directory to be specified, overriding the defaults. The -init option is now deprecated and the default source directory is the config file parent directory when -src-dir is not specified.

2016090102 libssrcspread 1.0.12 Released. libssrcspread v1.0.11 (providing C++, Lua, Perl, Python, and Ruby bindings for the Spread group communication system) has been released. This release corrects a typo in the Timeout class documentation.

2016090103 Ssrc Wisp 1.2.5 Released. Ssrc Wisp v1.2.5 has been released, correcting unit test compilation errors resulting from changes in Boost 1.61.0 or thereabouts.

2016090104 ltp 1.0.6 Released. ltp v1.0.6 is available for download. ltp is a general purpose text preprocessor intended for generative programming and template-based document generation. This release makes no code changes. It changes the documentation charset from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8.

2015 News

2015051001 libssrcspread 1.0.11 Released. libssrcspread v1.0.11 (providing C++, Lua, Perl, Python, and Ruby bindings for the Spread group communication system) has been released. This release corrects compilation errors with GCC 4.9 and newer.

2015051002 Ssrc Wisp 1.2.4 Released. Ssrc Wisp v1.2.4 has been released, fixing send buffer autoresizing with GCC 4.9 and newer.

2014 News

2014050101 RockSaw 1.1.0 Released. RockSaw v1.1.0 has been released, now setting explicitly the IPv6 scope identifier on writes and binds. This change is necessary for link-local addresses on some systems or configurations involving multiple network interfaces. RockSaw is a Java API for performing I/O with raw sockets that has been deployed on tens of thousands of computing nodes as part of custom enterprise applications.

2013 News

2013121901 bootstrap 1.1.9 Released. bootstrap v1.1.9 is now available. bootstrap is a bash script that makes it easier for developers to manage autotools-based projects for multiple configuration environments. This release adds a -build-dir argument, allowing the build directory location to be specified instead of using the default build/ subdirectory. bootstrap now exits with an error status if a command operation fails (e.g., make exits with an error during -build, configure fails during -config, etc.).

2013061801 RockSaw 1.0.3 Released. RockSaw v1.0.3 has been released, fixing a regression in v1.0.2 which created the possibility of integer overflow when using the select-based (not the poll-based) socket timeout emulation on Solaris. The bug resulted from converting milliseconds to microseconds instead of to both seconds and microseconds when initializing the timeval struct argument required by select(). RockSaw is a Java API for performing I/O with raw sockets that has been deployed on tens of thousands of computing nodes as part of custom enterprise applications.

2013060201 ltp 1.0.5 Released. ltp v1.0.5 is available for download. ltp is a general purpose text preprocessor intended for generative programming and template-based document generation. This release makes no code changes. It has simply changed the documentation source from asciidoc to DocBook in order to correct character encoding and output formatting problems in the generated documentation.

2013060202 RockSaw 1.0.2 Released. RockSaw v1.0.2 has been released, adding the ability to use poll instead of select for socket timeout emulation on platforms that do not support socket timeouts such as Solaris. A binary distribution is no longer provided because there are simply too many platforms for which to compile JNI libraries. RockSaw is a Java API for performing I/O with raw sockets that has been deployed on tens of thousands of computing nodes as part of custom enterprise applications.

2012 News

2012112501 Ssrc SVG End of Life. Ssrc SVG v13.0.0 is the final release of the Ssrc SVG plugin for the foreseeable future. Despite some incompatibilities at the scripting level, SVG support in MSIE 9 and 10 has reached a level where a plugin is not required. Ssrc SVG v13.0.0 is more than adequate to support MSIE 8 until the transition to MSIE 9 and 10 is complete.

2012081701 Ssrc Wisp 1.2.2 Released. Ssrc Wisp v1.2.2 has been released, fixing the execution of EV_ONESHOT events on FreeBSD 9.0 and OS X.

2012061501 Ssrc SVG 13.0.0 SVG Plugin for MSIE Released. Ssrc SVG v13.0.0 is now available, incorporating the latest features and security fixes from the Firefox 13.0 and Gecko 13.0 releases.

2012 News (cont.)

2012040901 Ssrc Web Wispers 1.2.2 Released. Ssrc Web Wispers v1.2.2 has been released, fixing GCC 4.7.0 compilation errors and converting all unit tests from cppunit to the boost unit test framework. Ssrc Web Wispers is a C++ and Lua framework for rapidly building scalable Web applications deployed on a cluster of computing nodes.

2012040501 Ssrc SVG 11.0.0 SVG Plugin for MSIE Released. Ssrc SVG v11.0.0 is now available, incorporating the latest features and security fixes from the Firefox 11.0 and Gecko 11.0 releases.

2011 News

2011123001 Ssrc SVG 9.0.1 SVG Plugin for MSIE Released. Ssrc SVG v9.0.1 is now available, incorporating the latest features and security fixes from the Firefox 9.0.1 and Gecko 9.0.1 releases.

2011120801 Vareos adds support for Google Chrome and MSIE. Vareos now supports Google Chrome and Microsoft Internet Explorer (via the Google Crhome Frame plugin).

2011111101 Ssrc Web Wispers 1.2.1 Released. Ssrc Web Wispers v1.2.1 has been released, featuring many minor improvements, including 64-bit Solaris support. Ssrc Web Wispers is a C++ and Lua framework for rapidly building scalable Web applications deployed on a cluster of computing nodes.

2011100601 bootstrap 1.1.8 Released. bootstrap v1.1.8 is now available. bootstrap is a bash script that makes it easier for developers to manage autotools-based projects for multiple configuration environments.

2011092801 Ssrc SVG 7.0.0 SVG Plugin for MSIE Released. Ssrc SVG v7.0.0 is now available, incorporating the latest features and security fixes from the Firefox 7.0 and Gecko 7.0 releases.

2011081701 Ssrc SVG 6.0.0 SVG Plugin for MSIE Released. Ssrc SVG v6.0.0 is now available, incorporating the latest features and security fixes from the Firefox 6.0 and Gecko 6.0 releases.

2011062201 Ssrc SVG 5.0.0 SVG Plugin for MSIE Released. Ssrc SVG v5.0.0 is now available, incorporating the latest features and security fixes from the Firefox 5.0 and Gecko 5.0 releases.

2011060301 libssrckdtree 1.0.8 Released. libssrckdtree v1.0.8 has been released, fixing a compilation error encountered with Visual C++ 10. When not using the configure script, make sure that LIBSSRCKDTREE_HAVE_ EXTENDED_FRIEND_DECLARATIONS is defined in libssrckdtree-config.h when compiling with Visual C++ 10. The compilation error was actually the result of catering to non-conformant syntax accepted by GCC to identify a class typedef as a friend of a template class.

2011051102 Ssrc Wisp 1.2.1 Released. Ssrc Wisp v1.2.1 has been released. The build system now forces -fPIC on 64-bit systems and adopts the libtool library versioning scheme. In addition, unit tests now use boost test instead of cppunit. Ssrc Wisp is a C++ framework for rapidly building services that interact with each other via events over local area or wide area networks.

2011051101 libssrcspread 1.0.9 Released. libssrcspread v1.0.9 (providing C++, Lua, Perl, Python, and Ruby bindings for the Spread group communication system) has been released. This release updates the build system and unit tests to work with SWIG 2.0.3, Python 3.2m, Perl 5.12.3, and Ruby 1.9.2p180. Also, it includes a 64-bit patch for Spread 4.1.0 (required for FreeBSD and Solaris) and 64-bit compilation instructions.

2011040601 Ssrc SVG 2.0.0.1 SVG Plugin for MSIE Released. Ssrc SVG v2.0.0.1 is now available, incorporating the latest features and security fixes from the Firefox 4.0.1 and Gecko 2.0.0.1 releases.

2011032301 Ssrc SVG 2.0.0.0 SVG Plugin for MSIE Released. Ssrc SVG v2.0.0.0 is now available, incorporating the latest features and security fixes from the Firefox 4.0 and Gecko 2.0.0.0 releases.

2011030401 Ssrc SVG 1.9.2.15 SVG Plugin for MSIE Released. Ssrc SVG v1.9.2.15 is now available, incorporating the latest security fixes from the Firefox 3.6.15 and Gecko 1.9.2.15 releases.

2011030101 Ssrc SVG 1.9.2.14 SVG Plugin for MSIE Released. Ssrc SVG v1.9.2.14 is now available, incorporating the latest security fixes from the Firefox 3.6.14 and Gecko 1.9.2.14 releases.

2011011101 libssrcspread 1.0.8 Released. libssrcspread v1.0.8 (providing C++, Lua, Perl, Python, and Ruby bindings for the Spread group communication system) has been released. This release adds begin(), end(), rbegin(), and rend() iterator functions to the Message class via ssrc::spread::detail::Buffer.

2010 News

2010121001 libssrcspread 1.0.7 Released. libssrcspread v1.0.7 (providing C++, Lua, Perl, Python, and Ruby bindings for the Spread group communication system) has been released. This release sets FD_CLOEXEC on the Spread connection file descriptor in the Mailbox class constructor.

2010120901 Ssrc SVG 1.9.2.13 SVG Plugin for MSIE Released. Ssrc SVG v1.9.2.13 is now available, incorporating the latest security fixes from the Firefox 3.6.13 and Gecko 1.9.2.13 releases.

2010103101 Ssrc SVG 1.9.2.12 SVG Plugin for MSIE Released. Ssrc SVG v1.9.2.12 is now available, incorporating the latest security fixes from the Firefox 3.6.12 and Gecko 1.9.2.12 releases.

2010102001 Ssrc SVG 1.9.2.11 SVG Plugin for MSIE Released. Ssrc SVG v1.9.2.11 is now available, incorporating the latest security fixes from the Firefox 3.6.11 and Gecko 1.9.2.11 releases.

2010091701 Ssrc SVG 1.9.2.10 SVG Plugin for MSIE Released. Ssrc SVG v1.9.2.10 is now available, incorporating the latest security fixes from the Firefox 3.6.10 and Gecko 1.9.2.10 releases.

2010 News (cont.)

2010090801 Ssrc SVG 1.9.2.9 SVG Plugin for MSIE Released. Ssrc SVG v1.9.2.9 is now available, incorporating the latest security fixes from the Firefox 3.6.9 and Gecko 1.9.2.9 releases.

2010072601 Ssrc SVG 1.9.2.8 SVG Plugin for MSIE Released. Ssrc SVG v1.9.2.8 is now available, incorporating the latest security fixes from the Firefox 3.6.8 and Gecko 1.9.2.8 releases.

2010072101 Ssrc SVG 1.9.2.7 SVG Plugin for MSIE Released. Ssrc SVG v1.9.2.7 is now available, incorporating the latest security fixes from the Firefox 3.6.7 and Gecko 1.9.2.7 releases.

2010062701 Ssrc SVG 1.9.2.6 SVG Plugin for MSIE Released. Ssrc SVG v1.9.2.6 is now available, incorporating the latest security fixes from the Firefox 3.6.6 and Gecko 1.9.2.6 releases.

2010052603 Ssrc Web Wispers 1.2.0 Released. Ssrc Web Wispers v1.2.0 has been released, updated to work with Wisp 1.2.0 and GCC 4.5. Ssrc Web Wispers is a C++ and Lua framework for rapidly building scalable Web applications deployed on a cluster of computing nodes.

2010052602 Ssrc Wisp 1.2.0 Released. Ssrc Wisp v1.2.0 has been released, fixing GCC 4.5.x compilation and Solaris 10/09 event handling while also adding support for C++ 0x lambda expressions as continuations. Ssrc Wisp is a C++ framework for rapidly building services that interact with each other via events over local area or wide area networks.

2010052601 libssrcspread 1.0.6 Released. libssrcspread v1.0.6 (providing C++, Lua, Perl, Python, and Ruby bindings for the Spread group communication system) has been released. This release makes no major changes, but fixes compilation of the Perl binding on Mac OS X using GCC 4.4.x.

2010040301 Ssrc SVG 1.9.2.3 SVG Plugin for MSIE Released. Ssrc SVG v1.9.2.3 is now available, incorporating the latest security fixes from the Firefox 3.6.3 and Gecko 1.9.2.3 releases.

2010032301 Ssrc SVG 1.9.2.2 SVG Plugin for MSIE Released. Ssrc SVG v1.9.2.2 is now available, incorporating the latest security fixes from the Firefox 3.6.2 and Gecko 1.9.2.2 releases.

2010031501 Ssrc Web Wispers 1.1.5 Released. Ssrc Web Wispers v1.1.5 has been released, adding support for Mac OS X 10.6.2 using GCC 4.4 or higher. Ssrc Web Wispers is a C++ and Lua framework for rapidly building scalable Web applications deployed on a cluster of computing nodes.

2010031401 Ssrc Wisp 1.1.5 Released. Ssrc Wisp v1.1.5 has been released, adding support for Mac OS X 10.6.2 using GCC 4.3 or higher. Ssrc Wisp is a C++ framework for rapidly building services that interact with each other via events over local area or wide area networks.

2010031301 bootstrap 1.1.7 Released. bootstrap v1.1.7 is now available, adding support for Mac OS X (where glibtoolize must be invoked instead of libtoolize). bootstrap is a bash script that makes it easier for developers to manage autotools-based projects for multiple configuration environments.

2010031302 libssrcspread 1.0.5 Released. libssrcspread v1.0.5 (providing C++, Lua, Perl, Python, and Ruby bindings for the Spread group communication system) has been released. This release makes no major changes, but fixes compilation issues caused by newer releases of autotools (e.g., libtool 2.2) and also fully supports Mac OS X 10.6.2.

2010031001 libssrckdtree 1.0.7 Released. libssrckdtree v1.0.7 has been released, fixing a bug where k-nearest neighbors search could in some cases produce an incorrect result for k equal to 1. Single nearest neighbor search, which is implemented separately, was not affected by this bug, therefore it is unlikely anyone experienced the problem.

2010031002 libssrckdtree-j 1.0.2 Released. libssrckdtree-j v1.0.2 has been released, fixing a bug where k-nearest neighbors search could sometimes produce an incorrect result for k equal to 1.

2010030601 libssrckdtree-j 1.0.1 Released. libssrckdtree-j v1.0.1 has been released, adding k-nearest neighbors search. libssrckdtree-j is a Java library implementing a fully generic k-d tree data structure and associated algorithms mostly comparable in functionality to the C++ libssrckdtree library.

2010030401 Ssrc Wisp 1.1.4 Released. Ssrc Wisp v1.1.4 is now available. Ssrc Wisp is a C++ framework for rapidly building services that interact with each other via events over local area or wide area networks. This minor maintenance release fixes a problem introduced by changes appearing in the Boost 1.42.0 iostreams framework.

2010030402 Ssrc Web Wispers 1.1.4 Released. Ssrc Web Wispers v1.1.4 has been released, featuring some minor improvements such as extending WebServiceRunner module call parameter validation to standalone WebService processes. Ssrc Web Wispers is a C++ and Lua framework for rapidly building scalable Web applications deployed on a cluster of computing nodes.

2010021601 libssrckdtree 1.0.6 Released. libssrckdtree v1.0.6 has been released, adding single nearest neighbor search and k-nearest neighbors search.

2010012502 Ssrc Web Wispers 1.1.3 Released. Ssrc Web Wispers v1.1.3 has been released, featuring some minor improvements. Ssrc Web Wispers is a C++ and Lua framework for rapidly building scalable Web applications deployed on a cluster of computing nodes.

2010012501 Ssrc SVG 1.9.2 SVG Plugin for MSIE Released. Ssrc SVG v1.9.2 is now available, bringing the plugin up to date with the Firefox 3.6 and Gecko 1.9.2 releases.