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## Vortex Library 1.0.11 ##
## "Break the loop release" ##
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Release note
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Advanced Software Production Line is proud to announce the Vortex
Library 1.0.11 "Break the loop" release availability: an open source
"BEEP Core" protocol implementation written in C, mapped onto
TCP/IP.
Vortex Library has been developed inside the Af-Arch project as its
data transport layer.
Vortex Library is a stable and robust application protocol
development toolkit. Currently it is running under Microsoft Windows
and GNU/Linux platforms.
Check out the following links to get ready with Vortex Library:
- http://www.aspl.es/vortex
[Vortex Library homepage]
- http://www.sf.net/projects/vortexlibrary
[Sources and Win32 binaries]
- http://fact.aspl.es
[Af-Arch homepage where Vortex Library is being developed]
- http://www.beepcore.org
[BEEP Core community web site]
- http://www.aspl.es/xml
[Axl Library, XML 1.0 implementation]
The release in short
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Several bugs have been fixed and integrated into the regression
test. Updated frame joining code to reduce the alloc/realloc
pattern, improving speed for windows platform. Fixed ANS/NUL bug
which was causing to not allow sending several files (several
ANS/NUL exchanges over the same channel). Some new API functions has
been added to manage connections created (used by Turbulence),
profile channel counting and getting channel pool references.
Change notifications
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None.
Thanks to..
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Chris Yourch (reported and provided useful information to reproduce
the ANS/NUL pattern problem). Thomas Unterleitner (reported and
provided useful information to reproduce the low transfer rate,
inside windows platform, while sending (really) huge frames (42MB)).
Changes since 1.0.10
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* [fix] Making xml-rpc implementation to allow receiving empty arrays.
* [fix] Updated libvortex.def file to include latest symbols.
* [fix] Updated vortex greetings module to allow configuring features,
making the module to handle its own references.
* [fix] Making vortex connection module to first receive greetings
frame, in order to allow feature checking, and then send the
greeting reply accepting/proposing features. Not finished. Required
all notification code to accept features.
* [new] Added new support function to extract the difference between
to struct timeval instances. Updated gettimeofday windows port to
remove the timezone value (which is not used and won't be used by
the vortex core). Checked this implementation is more friendly to
mingw and MS VS compilers. API added:
- vortex_timeval_substract
- gettimeofday (updated)
* [fix] Implemented workaround for a timeout bug inside the
vortex_async_queue_timedpop function, running on windows, caused by
the SignalAndWaitObject implementation which is finishing before the
timeout expire, causing to return NULL references. Included some
code to detect this fast (funny) exit to restart the wait operation.
Also fixes bug inside vortex_channel_get_reply.
* [fix] Fixed bug which was causing to make the next transfer to a
ANS/NUL proper transfer to be faulty. Updated regression test to
check this in future release. Regression test now transfer a set of
files (using the same channel), checking md5 for content
transfered. (Thanks to Chris Yourch which reported and fully defined
how to reproduce the problem).
* [fix] Making vortex_exit to clean up vortex tls module on exit.
* [fix] Reimplemented vortex frame joining mechanism
(vortex_channel_set_complete_flag) allowing to greatly reduce the
memory allocation pattern. Updated vortex frame API to include a
function to create a frame representation taking as payload the
reference provided (owning it). API added:
- vortex_frame_create_full_ref
* [fix] Updated vortex-file-transfer-client.c to allow transferring the
binary file with the proper fopen mode under windows ("wb"). Updated
Makefile.win to include compilation for
vortex-file-transfer-client.c and vortex-file-transfer-server.c.
* [new] Updated vortex channel API to allow getting the number of
channels that are running a particular profile under a particular
connection:
- vortex_connection_get_channel_count
* [new] Updated vortex connection API to allow configuring a handler
which is called on each connection created. API added:
- vortex_connection_notify_new_connections
- VortexConnectionNotifyNew
* [fix] Updating libvortex.def file.
* [new] Updated vortex channel API to include a new function to get
the channel pool associated. API added:
- vortex_channel_get_pool
About Us
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Advanced Software Production Line is leading the Af-Arch project: a
complete framework to develop distributed application to manage
enterprise process.
Af-Arch project relies on Vortex Library to exchange data between
its distributed nodes.
Advanced Software Production Line also provides GNU/Linux support
and consulting services to help organization to introduce GNU/Linux
inside its process.
Contact us, using English or Spanish, to get commercial support
and/or BEEP based development services.
You can reach us:
http://www.aspl.es - <email address hidden>
We hope Vortex Library help you. Enjoy Vortex Library!
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Francis Brosnan Bl�zquez - <email address hidden>
Advanced Software Production Line - http://www.aspl.es
23th nov 2007, Madrid (Spain)
