What's new in OpenSS7 0.9.2.G
Nov 4, 2008
- 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. Modifications to build under Fedora 2.6.25-45.fc9 and 2.6.26.5-45.fc9 kernels. Documented lib32gcc1 problem on Ubuntu. Noted problem running under XEN kernels. XEN kernels are not yet supported. Added MODULE_VERSION to all modules and drivers.
- Ability to strap out major documentation build and installation primarily for embedded targets. Improvements to common build process for embedded and cross-compile targets. Cross-compile fixes (strap out AC_FUNC_REALLOC macro when cross-compiling). Conversion of RPM spec files to common approach for major subpackages.
- 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.
- Higher performance and updated performance papers.
- Updated tool chain to m4-1.4.12, autoconf-2.63 and texinfo-4.13. Support for flex 2.5.33 in maintainer mode.
- Updated references database for manual pages and roff(1) documents.
- Added the following major sub-packages to the master build (and release):
- strx25-0.9.2.1
- All of the major subpackages that are at production release have maintenance upgrades for new production kernels, distributions and tool chains. Many of the major subpackages have greatly expanded documentation and provide additional modules and drivers not previously available in public releases. Significant feature updates were made to:
- strxns-0.9.2.7
- strinet-0.9.2.7
- strchan-0.9.2.4
- strx25-0.9.2.1
- striso-0.9.2.4
- strss7-0.9a.8
- sigtran-0.9.2.4