ACE+TAO-8_0_1

What's Changed

• When using the Embarcadero C++ Builder bcc64x compiler now bcc64x is used as linker instead of ld.lld
• TAO_IDL:
  • Support the following IDL v4 features (may not work everywhere in TAO):
    • Empty structs
    • octet and wchar union discriminators
    • Allow using typedefs of int8 and uint8 as union discriminators
    • Allow using empty parentheses in annotation applications to workaround syntax errors when an annotation with no arguments has to be followed by a complete scoped name: @example_annotation() ::ex::ExampleType. This is a proposed solution to an IDL spec issue.
    • Reserve the bitfield, bitmask, and bitset keywords in IDL v4 (these are not implemented yet)
  • Allow using map as an identifier in IDL v3 again

Full Changelog: ACE+TAO-8_0_0...ACE+TAO-8_0_1 and DOCGroup/MPC@ACE+TAO-8_0_0...ACE+TAO-8_0_1

ACE+TAO-8_0_0

What's Changed

• ACE/TAO now require C++17 or newer
• Add support for Embarcadero C++ Builder bcc64x compiler
• Removed ace/Auto_Ptr.*, with C++17 std::auto_ptr is not available anymore
• New Latest_ACE8TAO4_Micro, Latest_ACE8TAO4_Minor, and Latest_ACE8TAO4_Major branches

Full Changelog: ACE+TAO-7_1_4...ACE+TAO-8_0_0 and DOCGroup/MPC@ACE+TAO-7_1_4...ACE+TAO-8_0_0

ACE+TAO-6_5_21

What's Changed

• Updated and improved support for Embarcadero C++ Builder
• Backport IDL Maps
• Avoid errors when tcl/tk packages are not installed
• MacOS: sizeof long double is different on ARM64
• Avoid potential out-of-bounds read in ACE_CDR::Fixed::from_string

Full Changelog: ACE+TAO-6_5_20...ACE+TAO-6_5_21 and DOCGroup/MPC@ACE+TAO-6_5_20...ACE+TAO-6_5_21

ACE+TAO-7_1_4

Once again, thanks to the efforts of many developers, testers, and users, we are pleased to announce the major release of ACE 7.1.4 and TAO 3.1.4 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

• With g++ versions < 11 we default to C++17 as minimum C++ standards level

Changes to TAO

• None

ACE+TAO-7_1_3

Once again, thanks to the efforts of many developers, testers, and users, we are pleased to announce the major release of ACE 7.1.3 and TAO 3.1.3 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

• Fixed possible race conditions in extreme use case in the barrier and future implementations
• Improve support for QNX 7.1 and FreeBSD
• Integrated debian packaging changes

Changes to TAO

• None

ACE+TAO-7_1_2

Once again, thanks to the efforts of many developers, testers, and users, we are pleased to announce the major release of ACE 7.1.2 and TAO 3.1.2 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

• C++17 removed std::auto_ptr, updated ACE/TAO to not use std::auto_ptr anymore and also not provide our own auto_ptr. With C++17 ACE doesn't provide ACE_Auto_Ptr, ACE_Auto_Basic_Ptr, ACE_Auto_Basic_Array_Ptr, ACE_Auto_Array_Ptr, and ACE_auto_ptr_reset anymore, just use std::unique_ptr
• Add c++std which can be used in the platform_macros.GNU to set the C++ revision to be used (results in -std= flag)
• Improve support for QNX 7.1
• Embarcadero C++ Builder enhancements

Changes to TAO

• TAO_IDL: Added support for the map data type, but this isn't supported in TAO user applications except for local usage

ACE+TAO-7_1_1

Once again, thanks to the efforts of many developers, testers, and users, we are pleased to announce the major release of ACE 7.1.1 and TAO 3.1.1 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

• Fixed shared memory leak by ACE_Shared_Memory_Pool
• Fixed ACE_INET_Addr::set when ACE_LACKS_GETSERVBYNAME has been defined

Changes to TAO

• Removed deprecated -ORBResources flag

ACE+TAO-6_5_20

Once again, thanks to the efforts of many developers, testers, and users, we are pleased to announce the minor release of ACE 6.5.20 and TAO 2.5.20.

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 shared memory leak by ACE_Shared_Memory_Pool
• Fixed ACE_INET_Addr::set when ACE_LACKS_GETSERVBYNAME has been defined

Changes to TAO

• None

ACE+TAO-7_1_0

Once again, thanks to the efforts of many developers, testers, and users, we are pleased to announce the major release of ACE 7.1.0 and TAO 3.1.0 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

• Removed support for Windows CE, OpenVMS, HPUX, AIX, RTEMS, Pharlap, Solaris, and Visual Studio 2015
• ACE/TAO now require C++14 or newer

Changes to TAO

• Removed usage of ACE service configurator for all POA internal strategy classes

ACE+TAO-7_0_11

Once again, thanks to the efforts of many developers, testers, and users, we are pleased to announce the major release of ACE 7.0.11 and TAO 3.0.11 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 compiler warnings given by newer compilers
• Make use of noexcept instead of throw()
• Fixed a bug in ACE_Configuration_Heap with uses_wchar=1 builds

Changes to TAO

• Fixed some compiler warnings given by newer compilers
• PortableGroup cleanup