The open source community has released on Monday March 15th 2021 a new ACE 7.0.1 and TAO 3.0.1 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.
- 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
The open source community has released on Monday January 25th 2021 a new ACE 7.0.0 and TAO 3.0.0 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.
- 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
- 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
We are pleased to announce that ACE/TAO are getting modernized! The core developer group has supported very old (and broken) compilers for a long time, but it is now time to start modernizing ACE/TAO with the features and capabilities of C++11!
The coming period the core developer group will make C++11 a mandatory compiler feature for ACE 7.0.0 and TAO 3.0.0. This upcoming new major release is almost 10 years after ACE 6.0.0 and TAO 2.0.0 which where released December 14th 2010.
When you are using a C++11 capable compiler you should only notice that ACE/TAO will use C++11 features and that we will provide new C++11 APIs which will simplify your application code. There is no need to update your ACE 6.5.x based code, just recompile it with upcoming ACE 7.0.0 and TAO 3.0.0 and it should work. C++11 capable compilers are for example Visual Studio 2015 and newer, gcc 4.8 and newer, and clang 5 and newer.
When you are using a C++ compiler which doesn’t support C++11 you can keep using the ACE 6.5.x and TAO 2.5.x releases. When there is enough user sponsoring the core developer group will release new 6.5.x ACE/TAO releases with user funded bug fixes and enhancements! For this a new ace6tao2 branch is created in the ACE/TAO git repository which will be the development branch for any new 6.5.x developments.
The open source community has released on Tuesday October 27th 2020 a new ACE 6.5.12 and TAO 2.5.12 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.
- 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
- 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
The open source community has released on Monday August 17th 2020 a new ACE 6.5.11 and TAO 2.5.11 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.
- Latest_{Major,Minor,Micro,Beta} tags have been replaced with branches because tags are not intended to move where branches are
- Removed emulated operations in ACE_OS which are not used anymore
- Resolved some compile warnings when using C++11 or newer
- Integrated debian packaging changes
- Visual Studio 2015 solutions are not part of the release packaging anymore. When you require these you need to generate them locally using MPC
- Improve multicast join by interface name on Windows
- Fixed
ACE_INT64_FORMAT_SPECIFIER (and similar) preprocessor macros on macOS (Apple-clang) with -std=c++11 or higher
- On Windows, use unnamed kernel objects (Events and Semaphores) for thread-scoped reader-write mutexes in
ACE_OS::rwlock_init
- Simplified some code generated by tao_idl
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.
- 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)
- 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)
The open source community has released on Wednesday May 6th 2020 a new CIAO 1.3.9 and DAnCE 1.3.9 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.
- Enhance logging in ciao core and dds4ccm in case exceptions occur
- Reduce warnings in xsc generated code by using
std::unique_ptr at the moment C++11 is enabled
The open source community has released on Friday May 1st 2020 a new ACE 6.5.9 and TAO 2.5.9 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.
- On Windows, ACE no longer defines
_WIN32_WINNT. ACE wrappers for if_nametoindex and if_indextoname are available if the version of the Windows SDK supports them.
- IPv6 extended datagram receive info now supported on macOS.
ACE_(U)INT8/16/32/64 map to (u)int8/16/32/64_t when C++11 has been enabled.- CDR_Base uses
ACE_INT64 for LongLong, all old emulated support has been removed
- Updated debian and rpm packaging support
- With C++11 we are now using
(u)int8/16/32/64 to map all CORBA integer types
The open source community has released on Monday February 10th 2020 a new ACE 6.5.8 and TAO 2.5.8 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.
- Added instructions to ACE-INSTALL.html for building ACE/TAO for Android on Windows.
- Embarcadero C++ Builder Rio fixes
- Renamed
VERSION file to VERSION.txt to avoid conflicting with the `version` standard header.
- Fixed handling of transient errors with DII requests
- Renamed
VERSION file to VERSION.txt to avoid conflicting with the `version` standard header.
The open source community has released on Friday November 22th 2019 a new ACE 6.5.7 and TAO 2.5.7 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.
- Fixed compile problem with glibc 2.30 and newer
- gnuace makefiles: Updated handling of generated files and use requires/avoids to make postbuild steps conditional
- Removed references to the
ACE_LACKS_MONOTONIC_TIME preprocessor macro because it was equivalent to ACE_LACKS_CLOCK_MONOTONIC.
- Exposed support status of monotonic times features using preprocessor macros. See “Testing for Monotonic Time Support” in docs/ACE-monotonic-timer.html for details.
- Added support for ARM and ARM64 stack traces with Microsoft Visual C++.
- The “optional argument for the receive address in
ACE_SOCK_Dgram::recv” feature from ACE-6.5.5 is now supported on Windows. This includes enhanced support for sendmsg/recvmsg on Windows.
- Fixed deprecated-copy warnings in TAO_IDL generated code
- The TAO IDL Frontend now supports annotations on interfaces, operations, and attributes. (#967)
idl_global->eval in the TAO IDL Frontend will now produce error and warning messages. This can be silenced by passing true as a second argument. (#967)- Expanded documentation on what can be annotated and roughly how to extend annotation support in `TAO_IDL/docs/annotations.md`. Also made various corrections. (#967)
- Fixed invalid free in the TAO IDL Frontend while parsing an IDL wstring literal. (#984)
ACE 7.0.1 and TAO 3.0.1 released
