ChangeLogTag: Sat May 14 10:38:12 UTC 2005 Johnny Willemsen <jwillemsen@remedy.nl>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/TAO/NEWS b/TAO/NEWS
index 1bb13268e78..f8041536296 100644
--- a/TAO/NEWS
+++ b/TAO/NEWS
@@ -59,8 +59,10 @@ USER VISIBLE CHANGES BETWEEN TAO-1.4.4 and TAO-1.4.5
   in the future so that the Root_POA just pulls in the minimal set of things
   needed.
 
-. The RootPOA has now RootPOA as adapter name, previously it had an empty
-  string.
+. The RootPOA now has "RootPOA" as its adapter name, previously it had
+  an empty string.  This is required by the CORBA specification, you can
+  overrule this by defining TAO_DEFAULT_ROOTPOA_NAME if you want to
+  reduce the "RootPOA" string to be shorter, e.g., "".
 
 . Added support for GNU G++ 4.0.  Additional details in ACE `NEWS' file.
 
@@ -70,13 +72,21 @@ USER VISIBLE CHANGES BETWEEN TAO-1.4.4 and TAO-1.4.5
 . CORBALOC/CORBANAME patched a memory leak and fixed performance related
   to the use of defaulted object keys.
 
-. Added support for Visual Age 6.0.0.12 on AIX
+. Added support for Visual Age on AIX
 
 . Made it possible to run most ORB core test with VxWorks in a cross host
   scenario where one part of the test runs on the host and the other part
   of the test runs on the VxWorks target
 
-. New typecode implementation
+. The skeletons generated by the TAO_IDL compiler have been refactored
+  to significantly reduce the size of server applications.  Please see
+
+  http://www.dre.vanderbilt.edu/Stats/
+
+  for metrics that illustrate the magnitude of the reduction.
+
+. New TypeCode implementation that reduces the size of TypeCodes in
+  memory at run-time.
 
 USER VISIBLE CHANGES BETWEEN TAO-1.4.3 and TAO-1.4.4
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