[ANNOUNCE] NSPR 4.8 Beta 2 Release

Wan-Teh Chang <[email protected]> Thu, 14 May 2009 22:11:02 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.nspr
Message-ID <[email protected]>
The NSPR 4.8 Beta 2 release is now available.  The
CVS tag is NSPR_4_8_BETA2.  You can download the
source tarball from
https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/nspr/releases/v4.8beta2/src/

Schedule:

This is expected to be the last NSPR 4.8 Beta.
I plan to release NSPR 4.8 before next Wednesday
(May 20th), so I'd appreciate it if you could test
NSPR 4.8 Beta 2 right away.

The changes between Beta 1 and Beta 2 are
very small.  I changed the logging timestamp
format, and checked in four minor bug fixes.  The
information below is essentially the same as the
announcement of Beta 1.

Platform requirements:

Windows 9x (95, 98, Me) and NT 3.51 and 4.0 are no
longer supported.

Windows Mobile and Mac OS X 64-bit (x86_64) are
now supported.

New macros:

prlock.h: PR_ASSERT_CURRENT_THREAD_OWNS_LOCK
prmon.h: PR_ASSERT_CURRENT_THREAD_IN_MONITOR

New features:

The special log module timestamp adds timestamps
to NSPR log messages:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/nspr/reference/html/prlog.html#25328

The format of the timestamps is not final, so I'd appreciate
it if you could try it and post your comments in
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86396

Bug fixes:

Use this Bugzilla query to look up the bugs fixed in NSPR 4.8:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&classification=Components&product=NSPR&target_milestone=4.8&long_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&resolution=FIXED&emailassigned_to1=1&emailtype1=exact&email1=&emailassigned_to2=1&emailreporter2=1&emailqa_contact2=1&emailtype2=exact&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0=

Wan-Teh Chang