DOCGroup/ACE_TAO ACE+TAO-6_5_9

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Once again, thanks to the efforts of many developers, testers, and users, we are pleased to announce the micro release of ACE 6.5.9 and TAO 2.5.9 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

• On Windows, ACE no longer defines _WIN32_WINNT. ACE wrappers for if_nametoindex and if_indextoname are available if the version of the Windows SDK supports them
• IPv6 extended datagram receive info now supported on macOS
• ACE_(U)INT8/16/32/64 map to (u)int8/16/32/64_t when C++11 has been enabled.
• CDR_Base uses ACE_INT64 for LongLong, all old emulated support has been removed
• Updated debian and rpm packaging support

Changes to TAO

• With C++11 we are now using (u)int8/16/32/64 to map all CORBA integer types