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2oaf-0.6.8
3---------
4
5New in this release:
6
7* Fix oaf-slay username detection (Laszlo)
8* Fix for multiple activation race condition (Michael)
9* New translations (Wang Jian, Pablo Saratxaga)
10
11===================================
12oaf-0.6.7
13---------
14
15New in this release:
16
17* Fix major race condition which could lead to multiple oafd's (Michael, Maciej)
18* Miscellaneous bug fixes (Darin, Jody)
19* FreeBSD fixes (Chris Toshok)
20* Build fixes (Darin, Maciej)
21* Merge lots of bug fixes from former 2.0 branch (Maciej)
22* spec file updates (Gregory)
23
24===================================
25oaf-0.6.6
26---------
27
28New in this release:
29
30* New translations (Kjartan, Fatih Demir, Abel Cheung)
31* oaf-slay rewritten (Dan, Brian Cameron)
32* Make oafd become process group leader (Havoc)
33* Improve error reporting (Havoc, Maciej)
34* Some helpful debugging output when OAF_DEBUG_OUTPUT is set (Maciej)
35* Assorted bug fixes (Maciej, Richard Hult)
36* Minor doc updates (Maciej)
37* Better exceptions (Michael, Jacob)
38* Add missing includes (Kjartan)
39* oafd launching bug fixes (Maciej)
40* Build fixes (Michael, Darin, Maciej)
41* Fixed potential slow activation problems (Peter Williams)
42* Doc build fixes (Robey)
43* Made oaf.idl includable, even though this is evil and should not be done (Rusty)
44* Solaris build fixes (Seth Nickell, Peter Williams, Laszlo Peter)
45
46===================================
47oaf-0.6.5
48---------
49
50New in this release fixed the perl5.00404 bug
51NO other changes
52
53====================================
54oaf-0.6.4
55---------
56
57New in this release
58
59* fixed Unregistering servers causes failure when activating a
60  re-registered version (mjs)
61
62* fixed automounter problems (mjs)
63
64* fixed popt options (Darin)
65
66* added Romanian support (Dan Damian)
67
68====================================
69oaf-0.6.3
70---------
71
72New in this release:
73
74* Memory leak fixes (Maciej, migras)
75
76* SunOS support for oaf-slay (Michael)
77
78* Assorted bug fixes (Maciej)
79
80* Added new query language operator `prefer_by_list_order' for
81  preferring particular components in priority order when available. (Maciej)
82
83* Change working directory to "/" to avoiding mount issues (Wolfgang Sourdeau)
84       
85* Fix bug that made uloading shlib servers impossible (Maciej)
86
87* New translations (Gustavo Maciel Dias Vieira)
88
89
90====================================
91oaf-0.6.2
92---------
93
94New in this release:
95
96* Leak fixes (Ali)
97
98* xml-18n-toolize (Maciej)
99
100* Add DTD for oafinfo files (Maciej)
101
102* Rewrite and clean up oafinfo loading code; make it accept .oaf as
103  well as .oafinfo files (.oaf is the preferred naming now) (Maciej)
104
105* Pass IOR by environment variable, not command line arg for security (Elliot Lee)
106
107* Doc updates (Mathieu, John R. Sheets)
108
109* Assorted portability fixes (Jason Leach)
110
111* libxml 1.x/2.x compatibility (Darin)
112
113* Build fixes (Eskil, Mathieu, Maciej)
114
115* Assorted bug fixes (Michael)
116
117* New translations (Szabolcs BAN, Stanislav Visnovsky)
118
119
120====================================
121oaf-0.6.1
122---------
123
124New in this release:
125
126* Bug fixes (Kjartan, Darin, Eskil, Jaka, Mathieu)
127
128* New translations (Zbigniew Chyla)
129
130* Made documentation build work (Mathieu)
131
132* Added documentation text fixes.
133
134
135====================================
136oaf-0.6
137---------
138
139New in this release:
140
141* Query and activation changes:
142
143        * Async activation interface (Mathieu)
144       
145        * Per-DISPLAY server support, so you can run bonobo apps on
146        multiple displays at once. (Maciej)
147
148        * Make test components not show up unless in test mode. (Maciej)
149
150        * Forbid oafinfo files to specify properties that start with
151        `_' (Elliot)
152
153
154* Added ref/unref to factory interface for future expansion (Elliot)
155       
156* Build improvements (Pavel, Ramiro)
157
158* Bug fixes
159
160        * Portability fixes (Dan Winship)
161
162        * Exception handling fixes (Jaka)
163
164        * CORBA fixes (Bradford)
165
166        * Remove debugging spew (Maciej)
167
168        * Leak fixes (Darin)
169
170* Translations:
171
172        * New translations from (Alastair McKinstry, Jarkko Ranta,
173        Manuel de Vega Barreiro, Christopher R. Gabriel, Yuri Syrota, Takayuki
174        KUSANO, Jesus Bravo Alvarez)
175
176
177* Administrative:
178
179        * Updated commit policy, set of people with commit privs (Maciej)
180
181====================================
182oaf-0.5.1
183---------
184
185* New in this release
186
187        * Compile fixes for gcc 2.96, docs (Anders Carlsson)
188
189====================================
190oaf-0.5.0
191---------
192
193* New in this release
194
195        * Added factory skeletons to liboaf (Mathieu Lacage, Maciej Stachowiak)
196
197        * Renamed gnome-factory.idl to oaf-factory.idl, and renamed
198        GNOME::GenericFactory to GNOME::ObjectFactory (Mathieu Lacage,
199        Maciej Stachowiak)
200
201        * Preliminary API docs (Mathieu Lacage)
202
203        * -Werror turned off for releases, by popular demand (Maciej Stachowiak)
204
205        * Renamed "Attribute" to "Property" throughout, since "attribute" is
206        an IDL reserved word. (ERDI Gergo, Maciej Stachowiak)
207
208        * Fix compilation with builddir != srcdir (Mathieu Lacage)
209
210        * Improved handling of duplicate oafinfo files. (Mathieu Lacage)
211
212        * Turkish, German, Russian, Danish, Norwegian translations
213        (translation team)
214
215        * Added internationalization support (Mathieu Lacage)
216
217        * Renamed `supports' method to `manufactures' in
218        GNOME::GenericFactory interface. (ERDI Gergo)
219
220        * Added support for /etc/oaf-config.xml to tell OAF where to
221        look for oafinfo files.
222
223        * Added timeout for servers that don't register themselves
224        (Michael Meeks)
225
226        * Added support for GNOME_PATH environment variable (Mathieu
227        Lacage)
228
229        * Numerous build fixes (Robin * Slomkowski)
230
231        * oaf-slay program (Michael Meeks)
232
233        * Improved test program (Michael Meeks)
234
235        * IID validation (Michael Meeks)
236
237
238
239====================================
240oaf-0.4.0
241---------
242
243* New in this release
244
245
246  * Activation changes
247
248        Made activation by IID and by AID use appropriate defaults for
249        username, hostname and session. (Maciej).
250
251  * Test code
252
253        Test client improved to test more thoroughly. (Michael)
254
255  * Misc changes
256
257        Added some public calls for copying and duplicating various OAF
258        structures properly. (Darin)
259
260        Rename environment variable for oafinfo path to OAF_INFO_PATH
261        (Maciej)
262
263  * Bug fixes
264
265        Made shared library activation work. (Gene)
266
267        OAF now re-scans the oaf data directories when oafinfo files
268        change on disk, thus reducing the need to constantly kill
269        oafd. (Maciej) 
270
271        Warning fixes, enable -Werror. (Maciej, Michael)
272
273        Do -Werror test last so extra warnings don't screw up autoconf
274        tests. (Dan)
275
276        Added declarations of missing exceptions to IDL. (Michael)
277
278        Add IncompleteContext exception and throw it if needed context values
279        are missing. (Gergo)
280
281        Install fixes. (Robin)
282
283  * Docs
284
285        Various updates. (Maciej, Michael, Darin)
286
287
288====================================
289oaf-0.3.0
290---------
291
292* New in this release
293
294  * Activation changes
295
296        Allow activation by IID as well as by AID, when activating by
297        ID (Maciej)
298
299  * oafinfo file improvements
300
301        Multiple servers can now be specified in one oafinfo file. (Maciej)
302
303        Make reading more robust. (Michael)
304
305        Handle localization of OAF attributes better. (Maciej)
306
307  * Query language changes
308
309        Allow `:' in identifiers. (Maciej)
310
311        New `defined' function. (Maciej)
312
313        Capitalize word names of logical operators; add "XOR" as a
314        synonym for "^" and rename "^" to "^^" for consistency. (Maciej)
315
316  * Name service
317 
318        OAF now implements the CORBA standard CosNaming
319        service, for the benefit of things like monikers. (Elliot)
320
321        New covenience function `oaf_name_service_get' to get a
322        reference to the name service. (Maciej)
323
324  * Testing
325
326        oaf-run-query program runs a query with sort criteria and
327        returns a list of IID of servers satisfying the query, in sorted
328        order. (Maciej)
329
330  * oafConf.sh
331
332        Added so that oaf config info can be accessed via
333        gnome-config. (George)
334
335  * Bug fixes
336
337        Fixes to avoid crashing on attr lookup. (Maciej)
338
339        Avoid use of hardcoded file descriptor 123. (Maciej)
340
341        Fixed unary operators. (Darin)
342
343        Fixed `has_one' function. (Maciej)
344
345        Configuration improvements. (Kelly)
346
347        `oaf_orb_get' now returns NULL instead of a random unititalized
348        value if `oaf_init' has not been called yet. (Maciej)
349
350        Don't crash if finding the factory server fails in factory
351        activation. (Maciej)
352
353        Memory management fixes in query expression evaluator to
354        eliminate double-frees. (Maciej)
355
356        Replaced buggy sorting function with modified qsort. (Maciej)
357
358        Sequence handling fixes. (Jaka)
359
360   * Documentation
361
362        New document oaf-attributes.txt defining standard OAF
363        attributes. (Maciej)
364
365        Added examples to query-language.txt. (Michael)
366
367        Added debugging.txt document. (Michael)
368
369        Completed function and operator documentation in
370        query-language.txt. (Maciej)
371
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