strsock 0.9.2.4 Released - STREAMS Sockets for Linux

Package strsock-0.9.2.4 was released under AGPLv3 2008-10-31.

The OpenSS7 STREAMS Sockets package provides STREAMS modules and
drivers, libraries, programs, initialization scripts, and daemons.

The OpenSS7 STREAMS Sockets package contains header files and a number
of modules and drivers and the associated documentation originally
contained in the Linux Fast-STREAMS release, but not contained in the
Linux STREAMS (LiS) releases.

This OpenSS7 Project release is another separate release of the OpenSS7
STREAMS Sockets package whose components were formerly part of the
strss7, strxnet and streams packages. These networking modules provide
the Sockets library. The package contains all the necessary manual pages
and other documentation. The package is packaged as an OpenSS7 style
autoconf tarball.

This is an alpha release for Linux Fast-STREAMS and is part of the
OpenSS7 Master Package (openss7-0.9.2.F). This release is primarily a
maintenance release supporting recent distributions and tool chains.

Major features since the last public release are as follows:

  - Minor documentation corrections.
  - Kernel module license made explicit GPL v2. And then changed back
    to GPL.
  - 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.
  - Ability to strap out major documentation build and installation
    primarily for embedded targets.
  - Improvements to common build process for embedded and
    cross-compile targets.
  - Modifications to build under Fedora 2.6.25-45.fc9 and
    2.6.26.5-45.fc9 kernels.
  - Updated tool chain to m4-1.4.12, autoconf-2.63 and texinfo-4.13.
  - Conversion of RPM spec files to common approach for major
    subpackages.
  - Updated references database for manual pages and roff(1)
    documents.
  - 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.
  - Added MODULE_VERSION to all modules and drivers.
  - Several important bug fixes for thread safety of the socket
    library: see BUGS in the release, or Bugs in the manual, for more
    information.

This is a public alpha release of the package. This package is currently
incomplete. It is being released as a reference point for the community.
If you are interested in completion of this package, contact
<mailto:[email protected]>.

As with other OpenSS7 releases, this release configures, compiles,
installs and builds RPMs and DEBs for a wide range of Linux 2.4 and 2.6
RPM- and DPKG-based distributions, and can be used on production kernels
without patching or recompiling the kernel.

This package is publicly released under the GNU Affero General Public
License (AGPL) Version 3.  The release is available as an autoconf
tarball, SRPM, DSC, and set of binary RPMs and DEBs. See the downloads
page for the autoconf tarballs, SRPMs and DSCs. See the strsock package
page for tarballs, SRPMs, DSCs, and binary RPMs and DEBs.

See <http://www.openss7.org/codefiles/strsock-0.9.2.4/ChangeLog> and
<http://www.openss7.org/codefiles/strsock-0.9.2.4/NEWS> in the release,
or <http://www.openss7.org/strsock_manual.html#Release-Notes> in the
manual, for more information. Also, see the strsock.pdf manual in the
release (also in html <http://www.openss7.org/strsock_manual.html>).

For the news release, see <http://www.openss7.org/rel20081029_C.html>.

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Brian F. G. Bidulock
[email protected]
http://www.openss7.org/