ACE+TAO-6_5_16

Once again, thanks to the efforts of many developers, testers, and users, we are pleased to announce the micro release of ACE 6.5.16 and TAO 2.5.16.

The Source Code zip/tar.gz provided by github do not contain the necessary MPC files, please do not download these!

Changes to ACE

• Initial not-tested support for Visual Studio 2022
• Fixed compile errors when using Visual Studio 2019 with C++17 or C++20 support enabled
• Removed use of deprecated std::iterator

Changes to TAO

• TAO_IDL: Fix bug where floating point constant expressions fail to evaluate. This bug was introduced in 2.5.14.

ACE+TAO-7_0_4

Once again, thanks to the efforts of many developers, testers, and users, we are pleased to announce the major release of ACE 7.0.4 and TAO 3.0.4 which is available from the usual download location under the heading "Latest Micro Release".

The Source Code zip/tar.gz provided by github do not contain the necessary MPC files, please do not download these!

Changes to ACE

• Add support for Embarcadero C++ Builder 11.0 Alexandria using the bcc32c compiler
• Allow ACE_Module and ACE_SOCK_Dgram_Mcast to be sub-classed
• Add ACE_SWAP_LONG_LONG byte swap macro for ACE_UINT64
• Improved ACE_Atomic implementation for g++
• Various cleanup and using more C++11 features

Changes to TAO

• Various cleanup and using more C++11 features

ACE+TAO-6_5_15

Once again, thanks to the efforts of many developers, testers, and users, we are pleased to announce the micro release of ACE 6.5.15 and TAO 2.5.15.

The Source Code zip/tar.gz provided by github do not contain the necessary MPC files, please do not download these!

Changes to ACE

• Add support for Embarcadero C++ Builder 11.0 Alexandria using the bcc32 compiler
• Add support for MacOSX Big Sur
• Improved ACE_Atomic implementation for g++

Changes to TAO

• Add support for Embarcadero C++ Builder 11.0 Alexandria using the bcc32 compiler

ACE+TAO-7_0_3

Once again, thanks to the efforts of many developers, testers, and users, we are pleased to announce the major release of ACE 7.0.3 and TAO 3.0.3 which is available from the usual download location under the heading "Latest Micro Release".

The Source Code zip/tar.gz provided by github do not contain the necessary MPC files, please do not download these!

Changes to ACE

• The macro ACE_HAS_WIN32_STRUCTURAL_EXCEPTIONS has been renamed to ACE_HAS_WIN32_STRUCTURED_EXCEPTIONS, update your code accordingly
• MinGW 2 has been deprecated
• ACE CDR supports (u)int8
• Use more C++11 features including using std alternatives
• Various cleanup
• Fix SocketConnect::ip_check() Concurrency and Too-Early Request Issues for Windows
• Make install: use relative links in prefix/share

Changes to TAO

• Support for IDL 4 explicitly-named integer types like int64 in TAO_IDL. Support for uint8 and int8 is limited in TAO. Unlike the larger types, these are new distinct types that are not aliases of existing types covered by the CORBA specification
• Added the tao/idl_features.h header file for getting the IDL features supported by TAO_IDL. See the file for example usage
• TAO_IDL: Fix empty case evaluation on unions with enum discriminators

ACE+TAO-6_5_14

Once again, thanks to the efforts of many developers, testers, and users, we are pleased to announce the micro release of ACE 6.5.14 and TAO 2.5.14.

The Source Code zip/tar.gz provided by github do not contain the necessary MPC files, please do not download these!

Changes to ACE

• Fix SocketConnect::ip_check() Concurrency and Too-Early Request Issues for Windows
• Support int8 and uint8 in ACE_CDR
• Make install: use relative links in prefix/share

Changes to TAO

• Support for IDL 4 explicitly-named integer types like int64 in TAO_IDL. Support for uint8 and int8 is limited in TAO. Unlike the larger types, these are new distinct types that are not aliases of existing types covered by the CORBA specification.
• Added the tao/idl_features.h header file for getting the IDL features supported by TAO_IDL. See the file for example usage.
• Fix empty case evaluation on unions with enum discriminators

ACE+TAO-7_0_2

Once again, thanks to the efforts of many developers, testers, and users, we are pleased to announce the major release of ACE 7.0.2 and TAO 3.0.2 which is available from the usual download location under the heading "Latest Micro Release".

The Source Code zip/tar.gz provided by github do not contain the necessary MPC files, please do not download these!

Changes to ACE

• Fixed various warnings given by newer compilers
• Use more C++11 features
• Various cleanup

Changes to TAO

• Fix wstring coerce leak in tao_idl
• Support C++ Keywords in DCPS_DATA_SEQUENCE_TYPE
• Minor cleanup

ACE+TAO-6_5_13

Once again, thanks to the efforts of many developers, testers, and users, we are pleased to announce the micro release of ACE 6.5.13 and TAO 2.5.13.

The Source Code zip/tar.gz provided by github do not contain the necessary MPC files, please do not download these!

Changes to ACE

• Fixes for IPv6 multicast and inet_ntop/inet_pton on Windows
• Fix missing export attribute on ACE_OS::thr_gettid
• Fix spurious warning from gcc about missing initializers on std::array
• Android Support:
  • Support for building with the Android NDK r19 or later directly instead of having to use a generated standalone toolchain. See ACE-INSTALL.html for details. Using a standalone toolchain is still supported.
  • Made it easier to use gnuace-built libraries as imported libraries in CMake-based Android Studio native projects.
  • Replaced ANDROID_ABI with android_abi, but kept the former as an alias of the later for compatibility.
  • Remove need to pass a macro to compiler about android/ndk-version.h unless the NDK is old.

Changes to TAO

• Fix wstring coerce leak in tao_idl
• Support C++ Keywords in DCPS_DATA_SEQUENCE_TYPE
• TAO can be built from a path that contains spaces
• Minor cleanup

ACE+TAO-7_0_1

Once again, thanks to the efforts of many developers, testers, and users, we are pleased to announce the major release of ACE 7.0.1 and TAO 3.0.1 which is available from the usual download location under the heading "Latest Micro Release".

The Source Code zip/tar.gz provided by github do not contain the necessary MPC files, please do not download these!

Changes to ACE

• Cleanup of ACE_* macros which are not used anymore
• Removed support for LynxOS 4 which has gcc3
• Make sure C++11 is enabled on MacOSX

Changes to TAO

• Minor cleanup

ACE+TAO-7_0_0

Once again, thanks to the efforts of many developers, testers, and users, we are pleased to announce the major release of ACE 7.0.0 and TAO 3.0.0 which is available from the usual download location under the heading "Latest Micro Release".

The Source Code zip/tar.gz provided by github do not contain the necessary MPC files, please do not download these!

Changes to ACE

• C++11 is now a mandatory compiler feature which is required for ACE. Cleaned up part of the support for compilers that lack C++11 support
• When valgrind is enabled we don't disable dlclose anymore, this reduces the amount of leaks reported related to dlclose. When you unload your shared libraries before the end of your program you can use --keep-debuginfo=yes as valgrind options as alternative or you can disable dlclose yourself by adding #define ACE_LACKS_DLCLOSE to your ace/config.h file
• Removed ACE_OS::readdir_r. readdir_r was marked as depracated in glibc and FreeBSD libc. Also removed ACE_Dirent::read (ACE_DIRENT *, ACE_DIRENT **) which used it. ACE_LACKS_READDIR_R will now always be defined.
• Modernized part of the code using clang-type, added override, use nullptr, use unique_ptr, remove redundant void, use bool, simplify boolean expressions, make use of std::atomic, use using
• New Latest_ACE7TAO3_ branches which can be used to always checkout the latest ACE7/TAO3 micro/minor release
• Android Support:
  • gnuace no longer supports Android NDKs before r18. This means only clang is now supported when building for Android.
  • Support for building with the Android NDK r19 or later directly instead of having to use a generated standalone toolchain. See ACE-INSTALL.html for details. Using a standalone toolchain is still supported.
  • Made it easier to use gnuace-built libraries in as imported libraries in CMake-based Android Studio native projects.
  • Removed support for old ANDROID_ARCH make variable. Replaced ANDROID_ABI with android_abi, but kept the former as an alias of the later for compatibility. Also will no longer default to 32-bit ARM, so android_abi or ANDROID_ABI must be defined.
  • As recommend by Google, building with neon support is now the default when android_abi is armeabi-v7a. If support for these processors without NEON extensions is needed, put androind_neon := 0 in platform_macros.GNU.
  • As recommend by Google, gnuace will start using LLD, the LLVM linker, instead of the default GNU linkers. If the NDK being used doesn't default to LLD and you want to use the GNU linkers, put androind_set_lld := 0 in platform_macros.GNU.
• Removed support for the Alpha CPU

Changes to TAO

• C++11 is now a mandatory compiler feature which is required for TAO
• Fixed some CORBA spec mismatches for the CORBA server portable interceptors
• Add portspan support to DIOP

ACE+TAO-6_5_12

Once again, thanks to the efforts of many developers, testers, and users, we are pleased to announce the micro release of ACE 6.5.12 and TAO 2.5.12 which is available from the usual download location under the heading "Latest Micro Release".

The Source Code zip/tar.gz provided by github do not contain the necessary MPC files, please do not download these!

Changes to ACE

• Fixed some C++11 warnings
• Fixed compile problem on AIX
• Removed c++0x and c++1y as GNU make variables, use c++11 and c++14 as alternatives
• Moved all CI builds to github actions
• Added ACE_GCC_NO_RETURN to fix fall through warnings
• Fix ACE_Thread_Manager::join memory leak and potential deadlock

Changes to TAO

• Removed usage of narrow_from_decl and narrow_from_scope from TAO_IDL, use dynamic_cast now that we have RTTI. Any user that has a custom backend should make the similar changes to their own TAO_IDL backend