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

ACE+TAO-7_1_4

Once again, thanks to the efforts of many developers, testers, and users, we are pleased to announce the major release of ACE 7.1.4 and TAO 3.1.4 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 files, please do not download these!

Changes to ACE

• With g++ versions < 11 we default to C++17 as minimum C++ standards level

Changes to TAO

• None