DOCGroup/ACE_TAO ACE+TAO-6_5_4

ACE+TAO 6.5.4

on GitHub

Once again, thanks to the efforts of many developers, testers, and users, we are pleased to announce the micro release of ACE 6.5.4 and TAO 2.5.4 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 package, please do not download these!

Changes to ACE

• Fix ACE_Vector::end(), which now correctly represents the end of the elements of the vector instead of the end of the base array.

Changes to TAO

• Enhanced the ImR to better handle a huge number of servers which use the ImR heavily and each of
  them does a frequent shutdown/start cycle
• The TAO_IDL frontend library now parses all IDL4 annotation-related syntax: using and defining annotations. Use the tao_idl command-line options --idl-version and --unknown-annotations to control annotation parsing. Documentation on this feature is located in TAO/TAO_IDL/docs/annotations.md.
• TAO_IDL now will return an error status code when passing an invalid command line argument. Backends will have to support this behavior explicitly, see TAO/TAO_IDL/include/idl_defines.h for details. TAO_IDL also accepts new options such as -h, --help, --version, and --syntax-only, the latter of which won't generate any files, just check syntax of the IDL file(s). See tao_idl -h for details.
• When using IDL_Files in MPC, generated files will now be placed in the current directory by default, instead of the directory of the IDL file. Use
  idlflags += -o <IDL_FILE_DIR>
  gendir = <IDL_FILE_DIR>
  to output generated files to where the IDL file is.