ACE+TAO-6_5_24

What's Changed

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ACE

• Updated Embarcadero C++ Builder support
• Don't disable inlining in a debug build with Embarcadero C++ Builder compilers

TAO

• Add -ORBTransportIdleTimeout to purge idle transports after a configurable timeout, default is 0 (no purging of idle transports)

Full Changelog: ACE+TAO-6_5_23...ACE+TAO-6_5_24 and DOCGroup/MPC@ACE+TAO-6_5_23...ACE+TAO-6_5_24

ACE+TAO-6_5_23

What's Changed

ACE

• Backported TTY_IO enhancements from ACE-7.x
• Fixed building ACE for Android with uses_wchar=1
• Updated thread name support to work with older Windows versions
• Support floating-point-based std::chrono::duration in ACE_Time_Value

TAO

• Updated tao_idl code generation for IDL maps
• Threads created by TAO_Thread_Per_Connection_Handler now have shorter names because Linux limits thread names to 15 characters

Full Changelog: ACE+TAO-6_5_22...ACE+TAO-6_5_23 and DOCGroup/MPC@ACE+TAO-6_5_22...ACE+TAO-6_5_23

ACE+TAO-8_0_5

What's Changed

ACE

• Fixed building ACE for Android with uses_wchar=1
• Add support for parallel make using Embarcadero bcc64x compiler
• Fixed compile errors when C++23 is enabled
• Updated thread name support to work with older Windows versions

TAO

• Extended DynamicAny and Valuetype logging
• Updated tao_idl code generation for IDL maps
• Threads created by TAO_Thread_Per_Connection_Handler now have shorter names because Linux limits thread names to 15 characters

Full Changelog: ACE+TAO-8_0_4...ACE+TAO-8_0_5 and DOCGroup/MPC@ACE+TAO-8_0_4...ACE+TAO-8_0_5

ACE+TAO-8_0_4

What's Changed

ACE

• Fixed compile errors in the ACE core when compiled without thread support (only core of ACE compiled and not tested)

TAO

• TAO_IDL

  • Fixes for IDL maps (still not fully supported in TAO):
    • Support for parsing bounded maps, but the std::map generated by the builtin backend doesn't enforce the bound
    • Support for using maps in unions, sequences, and arrays
    • Fix memory leaks caused by maps
    • Fixed bug in AST_Map::key_type_annotations()
    • Added code generation for maps as operation parameters
  • Removed support for deprecated CPP_LOCATION and TAO_IDL_DEFAULT_CPP_FLAGS environment variables

• Fixed compilation with Visual C++ 2022 in Standard C++ 20 mode

Full Changelog: ACE+TAO-8_0_3...ACE+TAO-8_0_4 and DOCGroup/MPC@ACE+TAO-8_0_3...ACE+TAO-8_0_4

ACE+TAO-6_5_22

What's Changed

ACE

• Support Linux platforms that use musl-libc instead of glibc
• Thread names given to ACE_OS::thr_create are now passed down to the OS on Windows.
• Removed ACE_make_checked_array_iterator that used deprecated stdext::checked_array_iterator

TAO

• TAO_IDL

  • Fixes for IDL maps (still not fully supported in TAO):
    • Support for parsing bounded maps, but the std::map generated by the builtin backend doesn't enforce the bound
    • Support for using maps in unions, sequences, and arrays
    • Fix memory leaks caused by maps
    • Fixed bug in AST_Map::key_type_annotations()
    • Added code generation for maps as operation parameters

• Fixed compilation with Visual C++ 2022 in Standard C++ 20 mode

Full Changelog: ACE+TAO-6_5_21...ACE+TAO-6_5_22 and DOCGroup/MPC@ACE+TAO-6_5_21...ACE+TAO-6_5_22

ACE+TAO-8_0_3

What's Changed

ACE

• Deprecated ACE_Copy_Disabled in favor of deleted copy/assignment
• Replaced usage of ACE_MIN and ACE_MAX with std::min/std::max
• Add support for abstract paths to ACE_UNIX_ADDR
• Improve support for 64bit file sizes
• Minor fixes to ACE logging classes
• Use C++11 default for more classes
• GCC versions less than 9 and Clang versions less than 12 are no longer tested in GitHub Actions CI
• Dropped support for Embarcadero C++ Builder bcc32c and bcc64 compilers
• Updated support for Green Hills INTEGRITY and INTEGRITY-178 tuMP RTOS. Tested on INTEGRITY 11.4.6 and INTEGRITY-178 5.0.0.
• Thread names given to ACE_OS::thr_create are now passed down to the OS on Windows and on INTEGRITY.

TAO

• Add new CECShutdownWaitCompletion command line argument to CosEvent service in order to be able not to wait on any pending event on shutdown
• Fixed possible race condition when handling location forwards
• When no preferred interfaces are provided we don't query for all IP interfaces as that could be slow
• Threads created by TAO_Thread_Per_Connection_Handler now have names

Full Changelog: ACE+TAO-8_0_2...ACE+TAO-8_0_3 and DOCGroup/MPC@ACE+TAO-8_0_2...ACE+TAO-8_0_3

ACE+TAO-8_0_2

What's Changed

• Removed ACE_make_checked_array_iterator that used deprecated stdext::checked_array_iterator
• Embarcadero C++ Builder bcc64x compiler support has been updated to match the C++Builder 12.2 release
• Added support for Linux platforms that use musl-libc instead of glibc
• Improved QNX support
• Add support for std::string_view to CDR classes
• Define ACE_HAS_CPP23 when we have a C++23 capable C++ compiler

Full Changelog: ACE+TAO-8_0_1...ACE+TAO-8_0_2 and DOCGroup/MPC@ACE+TAO-8_0_1...ACE+TAO-8_0_2

ACE+TAO-8_0_1

What's Changed

• When using the Embarcadero C++ Builder bcc64x compiler now bcc64x is used as linker instead of ld.lld
• TAO_IDL:
  • Support the following IDL v4 features (may not work everywhere in TAO):
    • Empty structs
    • octet and wchar union discriminators
    • Allow using typedefs of int8 and uint8 as union discriminators
    • Allow using empty parentheses in annotation applications to workaround syntax errors when an annotation with no arguments has to be followed by a complete scoped name: @example_annotation() ::ex::ExampleType. This is a proposed solution to an IDL spec issue.
    • Reserve the bitfield, bitmask, and bitset keywords in IDL v4 (these are not implemented yet)
  • Allow using map as an identifier in IDL v3 again

Full Changelog: ACE+TAO-8_0_0...ACE+TAO-8_0_1 and DOCGroup/MPC@ACE+TAO-8_0_0...ACE+TAO-8_0_1

ACE+TAO-8_0_0

What's Changed

• ACE/TAO now require C++17 or newer
• Add support for Embarcadero C++ Builder bcc64x compiler
• Removed ace/Auto_Ptr.*, with C++17 std::auto_ptr is not available anymore
• New Latest_ACE8TAO4_Micro, Latest_ACE8TAO4_Minor, and Latest_ACE8TAO4_Major branches

Full Changelog: ACE+TAO-7_1_4...ACE+TAO-8_0_0 and DOCGroup/MPC@ACE+TAO-7_1_4...ACE+TAO-8_0_0

ACE+TAO-6_5_21

What's Changed

• Updated and improved support for Embarcadero C++ Builder
• Backport IDL Maps
• Avoid errors when tcl/tk packages are not installed
• MacOS: sizeof long double is different on ARM64
• Avoid potential out-of-bounds read in ACE_CDR::Fixed::from_string

Full Changelog: ACE+TAO-6_5_20...ACE+TAO-6_5_21 and DOCGroup/MPC@ACE+TAO-6_5_20...ACE+TAO-6_5_21