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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
-<!DOCTYPE chapter SYSTEM "chapter.dtd">
-
-<chapter>
- <header>
- <copyright>
- <year>1997</year><year>2016</year>
- <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
- </copyright>
- <legalnotice>
- Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- You may obtain a copy of the License at
-
- http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-
- Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- limitations under the License.
-
- </legalnotice>
-
- <title>Orber Release Notes</title>
- <prepared></prepared>
- <responsible></responsible>
- <docno></docno>
- <approved></approved>
- <checked></checked>
- <date>99-02-12</date>
- <rev>A</rev>
- <file>notes.xml</file>
- </header>
-
- <section><title>Orber 3.8.4</title>
-
- <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p> Removed all old unused files in the documentation.
- </p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-14475 Aux Id: ERL-409, PR-1493 </p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p> Removed the man warnings by using the code tag
- instead of c tag. </p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-14673</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-</section>
-
-<section><title>Orber 3.8.3</title>
-
- <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- Fix some dialyzer warnings</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-14006</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
- </section>
-
- <section><title>Orber 3.8.2</title>
-
- <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- Internal changes</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-13551</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-</section>
-
-<section><title>Orber 3.8.1</title>
-
- <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p> Suppress Dialyzer warnings. </p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-12862</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-</section>
-
-<section><title>Orber 3.8</title>
-
- <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p> Remove the usage of erlang:now() from all Corba
- applications and use the new rand module instead of
- random. </p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-12687</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-</section>
-
-<section><title>Orber 3.7.1</title>
-
- <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p> Fixed problem with IPv6 addresses in Service Context
- when orber is default configured for IPv4. </p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-12193</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-</section>
-
-<section><title>Orber 3.7</title>
-
- <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p> The following functions have been corrected so they
- work properly with IPv6 addresses. </p> <list>
- <item><c>corba:resolve_initial_references_remote/2/3</c></item>
- <item><c>corba:list_initial_references_remote/1/2</c></item>
- <item><c>corba:string_to_object/1/2</c></item> </list>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-12016</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p> A couple of macros were malformed, missing commas:
- PROFILEBODY_1_1_TYPEDEF and PROFILEBODY_1_2_TYPEDEF.
- Thanks to Vlad Dumitrescu. </p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-12062</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-
- <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p> It is now possible to add listen interfaces for IPv6
- when orber is default configured for IPv4 and the other
- way around. For more information, consult the User's
- Guide and the orber module Reference Manual. </p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-12007</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-</section>
-
-<section><title>Orber 3.6.27</title>
-
- <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- Some local implementations of removing the last element
- from a list are replaced by <c>lists:droplast/1</c>. Note
- that this requires at least <c>stdlib-2.0</c>, which is
- the stdlib version delivered in OTP 17.0. (Thanks to Hans
- Svensson)</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-11678</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-</section>
-
-<section><title>Orber 3.6.26.1</title>
-
- <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p> Postscript files no longer needed for the generation
- of PDF files have been removed. </p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-11016</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-</section>
-
-<section><title>Orber 3.6.26</title>
-
- <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- Fix bug in corbaloc/corbaname over ssl.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-10675</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
- </section>
-
- <section><title>Orber 3.6.25</title>
-
- <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p> Some examples overflowing the width of PDF pages have
- been corrected. </p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-10665</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
- <section><title>Known Bugs and Problems</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-10675 Aux Id: seq12154
- </p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-</section>
-
-<section><title>Orber 3.6.24</title>
-
- <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- Fix number of arguments in orber dbg printout</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-9887</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p> The descriptions of <c>ssl_server_options</c> and
- <c>ssl_client_options</c> are corrected.<br/> Seq. Id:
- seq12018 </p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-9966 Aux Id: OTP-9773 </p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-</section>
-
-<section><title>Orber 3.6.23</title>
-
- <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p> Remove usage of ssl:seed/1 in orber test cases. </p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-9728</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-
- <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>Erlang/OTP can now be built using parallel make if you
- limit the number of jobs, for instance using '<c>make
- -j6</c>' or '<c>make -j10</c>'. '<c>make -j</c>' does not
- work at the moment because of some missing
- dependencies.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-9451</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p> The SSL option handling has been changed. There are
- now two new orber options <c>ssl_server_options</c> and
- <c>ssl_client_options</c> which takes a list of options
- to the socket. </p> <p> The old options are now
- deprecated and removed from the documentation but they
- can still be used for backward compatibility as long as
- the two new options not are used. </p> <p> If
- <c>ssl_server_options</c> and <c>ssl_client_options</c>
- contain an TCP option that <c>orber</c> needs to set to a
- specific value it will be skipped and a warning will be
- written to the error_log. </p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-9773 Aux Id: seq11932 </p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-</section>
-
-<section><title>Orber 3.6.22</title>
-
- <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p> XML files have been corrected. </p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-9550 Aux Id: OTP-9541 </p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-</section>
-
-<section>
- <title>Orber 3.6.21</title>
-
- <section>
- <title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>
- Eliminated Dialyzer warnings.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-9326 Aux Id:</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Orber 3.6.20</title>
-
- <section>
- <title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>
- Eliminated Dialyzer warnings when using exit or throw.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-9050 Aux Id:</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Orber 3.6.19</title>
-
- <section>
- <title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>
- Partial support for recursive structs and unions.
- Only available for the erl_corba backend and requires
- that Light IFR is used. I.e. the IC option {light_ifr, true}
- and that Orber is configured in such a way that Light IFR
- is activated. Recursive TypeCode is currently not supported.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-8868 Aux Id: seq11633</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
- <section>
- <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>The SSL option {ssl_imp, old} was not used if ssl_generation was
- set to 2. Only R14B was affected by this.</p>
- <p>Own Id: OTP-8994 Aux Id: seq11747</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Orber 3.6.18</title>
- <section>
- <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>A corbaloc http string could return an EXIT message, instead
- of a system exception, if the HTTP server closed the socket
- without returning a complete message. I.e. header and a body
- containing a stringified IOR.</p>
- <p>Own Id: OTP-8900 Aux Id: seq11704</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Orber 3.6.17</title>
-
- <section>
- <title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>
- Eliminated warnings for auto-imported BIF clashes.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-8840</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Orber 3.6.16</title>
-
- <section>
- <title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>
- Test suites published.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-8543O Aux Id:</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>Added missing trailing bracket to define in hrl-file.</p>
- <p>Own Id: OTP-8489 Aux Id:</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Orber 3.6.15</title>
-
- <section>
- <title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>
- Added the configuration parameters iiop_out_ports_attempts and
- iiop_out_ports_random.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-8448 Aux Id: seq11498</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- Removed obsolete SSL dependency.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-8374 Aux Id:</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- Removed the usage of the codeinclude tag in the documentation.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-8409 Aux Id:</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>Removed superfluous VT in the documentation.</p>
- <p>Own Id: OTP-8353 Aux Id:</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>Removed superfluous backslash in the documentation.</p>
- <p>Own Id: OTP-8354 Aux Id:</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Orber 3.6.14</title>
-
- <section>
- <title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>
- The documentation is now built with open source tools (xsltproc and fop)
- that exists on most platforms. One visible change is that the frames are removed.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-8201 Aux Id:</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Orber 3.6.13</title>
-
- <section>
- <title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>Obsolete guards, e.g. record vs is_record, has been changed
- to avoid compiler warnings.</p>
- <p>Own Id: OTP-7987</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Orber 3.6.12</title>
-
- <section>
- <title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>Only the source instance of InitialReference.java is now
- included. Users are adviced to use the Interoperable
- Naming Service (INS) instead. INS is a part of the OMG
- standard specification.</p>
- <p>*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
- <p>Own Id: OTP-7906 Aux Id: seq11243</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Orber 3.6.11</title>
-
- <section>
- <title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>Updated file headers.</p>
- <p>Own Id: OTP-7837</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Orber 3.6.10</title>
-
- <section>
- <title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>Documentation source included in open source releases.</p>
- <p>Own Id: OTP-7595</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Orber 3.6.9</title>
-
- <section>
- <title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>Updated file headers.</p>
- <p>Own Id: OTP-7011</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>Now compliant with the new behavior of stdlib.</p>
- <p>Own Id: OTP-7030 Aux Id: seq10827</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Orber 3.6.8</title>
-
- <section>
- <title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>When a local port range has been defined (i.e. iiop_out_ports),
- Orber set the socket option reuseaddr to true and after one
- timed out connection attempt no other port in the given range
- is used for that particular connect attempt.</p>
- <p>Own Id: OTP-6844 Aux Id: </p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>Possible to override global SSL parameters when using
- local interfaces.</p>
- <p>Own Id: OTP-6869 Aux Id: seq10742</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
- <section>
- <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>The parameter ssl_client_ciphers was used on the server side as well
- instead of ssl_server_ciphers.</p>
- <p>Own Id: OTP-6868 Aux Id:</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>The configuration parameter iiop_max_in_requests was ignored, until
- the first incoming request arrived, if iiop_packet_size was set.</p>
- <p>Own Id: OTP-6912 Aux Id:</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Orber 3.6.7</title>
-
- <section>
- <title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>The documentation source has been converted from SGML to XML.</p>
- <p>Own Id: OTP-6754 Aux Id: </p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Orber 3.6.6</title>
-
- <section>
- <title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>It is now possible to configure incoming connections which
- overrides some global configuration parameters. See
- orber:add_listen_interface/2/3.</p>
- <p>Own Id: OTP-6696 Aux Id: </p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Orber 3.6.5</title>
-
- <section>
- <title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>Removed some unused code.</p>
- <p>Own Id: OTP-6527 Aux Id: </p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Orber 3.6.4</title>
-
- <section>
- <title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>Orber can now be configured so that different NAT parameters
- can be specified for different interfaces.</p>
- <p>Own Id: OTP-6165 Aux Id: </p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>It is now possible to set the keepalive option for incoming
- and outgoing IIOP connections. For more information, see the
- Configuration chapter in the User's Guide.</p>
- <p>Own Id: OTP-6370 Aux Id: seq10532</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>The new function orber:close_connection/1/2 allows a client
- to close connections to an object residing on a remote ORB.</p>
- <p>Own Id: OTP-6371 Aux Id: seq10532</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>Orber now use the SSL two-phase accept strategy to avoid
- that new incoming connections via SSL are not blocked
- by a previous connect attempt that never initiated the
- SSL handshake. Note, the configuration parameter
- iiop_ssl_accept_timeout should be set (default infinity).
- For more information, see the Configuration chapter in the
- User's Guide. If Orber is started in secure mode, the
- installed SSL version must support ssl:ssl_accept/1/2 and
- ssl:transport_accept/1/2.</p>
- <p>Own Id: OTP-6372 Aux Id: seq10105</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>The operation orber_ifr:contents/2 could only handle dk_All.</p>
- <p>Own Id: OTP-6385 Aux Id:</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Orber 3.6.3</title>
-
- <section>
- <title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>When installing Orber it is now possible to set the priority
- for Orber internal Mnesia tables. For more information, see the
- Reference Manual regarding orber:install/2.</p>
- <p>Own Id: OTP-5907 Aux Id: seq10156</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>The operation corba_object:is_a/2/3 now only connect to a remote
- ORB if necessary (i.e. the target object inherits from objects
- associated with the given IFR id).</p>
- <p>Own Id: OTP-5908</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>The operation corba_object:is_remote/1 always returned
- true, which was introduced in orber-3.2.10.</p>
- <p>Own Id: OTP-5909</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Orber 3.6.2</title>
-
- <section>
- <title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>Native interceptors may now export new_in_connection and
- new_out_connection operations with arity 5. If this is the
- case, information about the local interface and port is
- passed to the interceptor. Orber's built in interceptors
- have been changed to include this information as well.</p>
- <p>Own Id: OTP-5671</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>In some cases, e.g. incorrect GIOP headers or a CancelRequest
- containing a non-existing RequestId, the incoming connection
- would be terminated.</p>
- <p>Own Id: OTP-5672 Aux Id: seq10037</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>If combining the 'Use Current Interface in IOR' and
- 'Use IPv6' flags, exported IOR:s contained an incorrect
- host address.</p>
- <p>Own Id: OTP-5673</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Orber 3.6.1</title>
-
- <section>
- <title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>Reduced overhead when using outgoing ACL with a local interface
- defined.</p>
- <p>Own Id: OTP-5659</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>Added guards to ensure that, when so required, a list
- of IOP_ServiceContext's is passed instead of, for example,
- just the context record.</p>
- <p>Own Id: OTP-5660</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>The documentation referred to two different context definitions,
- the incorrect ServiceContext and the correct IOP_ServiceContext.
- The hrl file PATH/include/corba.hrl also contained the incorrect
- record definition. This has now been updated so that only
- IOP_ServiceContext is used and referred to.</p>
- <p>Own Id: OTP-5658</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Orber 3.6</title>
-
- <section>
- <title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>It is now possible to define a Access Control List (ACL),
- which limits the host and ports Orber may connect to or
- accept connections from.</p>
- <p>Own Id: OTP-5567</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>It is now possible to add, and remove, listen interfaces.
- For more information, consult the User's Guide and the
- orber module Reference Manual.</p>
- <p>Own Id: OTP-5568</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>It is now possible to activate and deactivate Audit/Trail
- logging. One of the three built in interceptors will be used
- depending on the requested verbosity.</p>
- <p>Own Id: OTP-5569</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>It is now possible to configure Orber to add the interface,
- to exported local IOR:s, a Request came via.</p>
- <p>Own Id: OTP-5570</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>It is now possible to instruct Orber which local interface an outgoing Request
- shall be sent via. To accomplish this the Orber generic context must be
- added added to each invocation.</p>
- <p>Own Id: OTP-5571</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>It is now possible to define a default local interface,
- which Orber will use when connecting to another ORB.</p>
- <p>Own Id: OTP-5583</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
- </section>
-</chapter>
-