Updated NEWS files in preparation for beta release.

4 files changed, 153 insertions, 69 deletions

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 954ba45d97a..fe54044d243 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Thu Dec 30 12:54:28 2004  Chris Cleeland  <cleeland@ociweb.com>
+
+	* NEWS: Updated to include latest release news.
+
 Thu Dec 30 11:44:51 2004  Steve Huston  <shuston@riverace.com>
 
         * NEWS: Noted that the autoconf stuff gave up on complete automation
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 13481d6f31f..8862cd64f02 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,46 +1,112 @@
 PLANNED MAJOR CHANGES "SOMETIME IN THE FUTURE" (i.e., exact beta not known)
 ===========================================================================
 
+PLANNED MAJOR CHANGES TARGETED FOR ACE-5.4.4
+====================================================
 
-PLANNED MAJOR CHANGES TARGETED FOR ACE-5.4.3
+USER VISIBLE CHANGES BETWEEN ACE-5.4.2 and ACE-5.4.3
 ====================================================
-- (Bala) Bug 1890-Select_Reactor and Priority_Reactor performance can
-  be improved
-  Finished.
-  Mon Aug 23 01:04:34 2004  Balachandran Natarajan  <bala@dre.vanderbilt.edu>
+. Improved Cygwin 1.5.12 support, 90% of the tests now succeed, TAO
+  has not been addressed.
+
+. Improved VxWorks 5.5.1 support. Everything now compiles, but no overview
+  of the test results yet.
+
+. Improved OpenVMS support, TAO has not been addressed yet.
+
+. Added ability to use fltk with Cygwin/MinGW
+
+. Added ACE_INT64 that defines a native 64 bit type, added 'q' as usable
+  specifier for usage with ACE_Log_Msg.
+
+. Started with the port with the Digital Mars C++ compiler under windows and
+  the Portland Group C++ compiler under Linux. Ports are not ready yet
+
+. Added better support for Intel C++ compilers.
+
+. Improved HPUX support.
+
+. Improved support for cross compilation in general.
+
+. Added a new directory for new protocols that are not directly
+  components of ACE, but relate to ACE ("ACE_wrappers/protocols/ace").
+
+. Defined a new protocol, HTBP (Hypertext Tunneling, Bidirectional
+  Protocol) providing ACE_Acceptor/Connector/Stream semantics over a
+  connection owned by an HTTP proxy. Test cases in ACE_wrappers/tests/HTBP
+  provide examples of use.
+
+. Performace enhancement in TP_Reactor's handle_timer_events method (Bug 1971).
+
+. Various changes to permit ACE to execute on HP NonStop platform (e.g
+  support for its pthreads version).
+
+. Updated HP NonStop configuration files (config-tandem-nsk...).
 
-- (Boris) Addition of XSC
-   Will not happen
+. The "ACE" pseudo-namespace is now a true C++ namespace.
+  Transitional pseudo-namespaces that were only meant to be used
+  internally by ACE, such as "ACE_Sock_Connect", no longer exist.
 
-- (Steve, J.T., Ossama) Autoconfigure using all MPC-generated files.
-  Gave up on autogenerating automake files using MPC. The automake language
-  are richer than that of MPC, so not everything we need can be done without
-  large extensions to MPC. So we generated the files using MPC then tweaked
-  and committed the .am files to CVS. Autoconfigure support should now
-  work on most platforms, though some glitches still exist that should be
-  addressed before ACE 5.5.
+. ACE_CDR::Boolean type is now a true C++ "bool" on all platforms
+  except MSVC++ 6.
 
-- (Steve) Wide-char functionality on POSIX (Linux, etc.)
+. More GNU g++ 3.4.x fixes.
+
+. Added ICMP and "ping" socket support.
+
+. Added mkstemp() emulation.
+
+. Fixed problem on Linux < 2.5.47 platforms where equality comparison
+  of two logically equal sockaddr_in structure instances would
+  incorrectly fail.
+
+. The use of wide characters has been improved on non-Windows
+  platforms.
+
+. Autoconf support should mostly work on most platforms. There are
+  still some known glitches that will be addressed before ACE 5.5 is
+  released. Please try the autoconf support and send problem reports
+  to ace-bugs@cs.wustl.edu.
+
+. A number of Windows CE problems have been fixed.
+
+. ACE's loading of DLLs (for example, as a result of loading synamic
+  services) has been changed to use the native OS's facilities for
+  locating the DLL instead of searching LD_LIBRARY_PATH (or its
+  equivalent) then loading the DLL using a full pathname. This
+  restores enforcement of a platform's loading and security policy.
+  To use the old DLL locating method, add
+  ACE_MUST_HELP_DLOPEN_SEARCH_PATH to your config.h file before building ACE.
+
+. A number of errors in the APG example programs have been corrected.
+
+. Autoconfigure using all MPC-generated files.
+  Gave up on autogenerating automake files using MPC. The automake
+  language is richer than that of MPC, so not everything we need can be
+  done without large extensions to MPC. So we generated the files using
+  MPC then tweaked and committed the .am files to CVS. Autoconfigure
+  support should now work on most platforms, though some glitches still
+  exist that should be addressed before ACE 5.5.
+
+. Select_Reactor and Priority_Reactor performance improved. (Bug 1890)
+  Mon Aug 23 01:04:34 2004  Balachandran Natarajan  <bala@dre.vanderbilt.edu>
+
+. Wide-char functionality on POSIX (Linux, etc.)
   Tue Aug 24 14:07:22 2004  Steve Huston  <shuston@riverace.com>
   (and subsequent follow-ups)
 
-- (OCI) TSS memory leak fixes (Bug 1542)
+. TSS memory leak fixes (Bug 1542)
   ACE - Initially Fri Aug 13 15:26:40 2004  Dale Wilson  <wilson_d@ociweb.com>
         with many others following on.
    ** Finished: Mon Sep 13 15:31:23 2004  Dale Wilson  <wilson_d@ociweb.com>
 
-
-- (Johnny) Ported to HPUX 11i v2 on Itanium
+. Ported to HPUX 11i v2 on Itanium
   Finished, Mon Aug 23 17:53:12 UTC 2004  Johnny Willemsen  <jwillemsen@remedy.nl>
 
-- (OCI) Added new streaming protocol that tunnels through HTTP
-  proxies, ace/HTBP
-  Finished.
+. Added new streaming protocol that tunnels through HTTP proxies, ace/HTBP.
   Mon Oct 25 21:27:03 2004  Phil Mesnier  <mesnier_p@ociweb.com>
 
-
-*** not user visible, but probably significant anyway
-- Added code to ace for platform RedHat AS 3.0 on Opteron.
+. Added code to ace for platform RedHat AS 3.0 on Opteron.
   Wed Aug 25 14:58:51 2004  Rich Seibel <seibel_r@ociweb.com>
   Wed Aug 25 14:49:11 2004  Rich Seibel <seibel_r@ociweb.com>
 
diff --git a/TAO/ChangeLog b/TAO/ChangeLog
index aa0e20c5f2c..ae6c5ee386d 100644
--- a/TAO/ChangeLog
+++ b/TAO/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Thu Dec 30 12:53:48 2004  Chris Cleeland  <cleeland@ociweb.com>
+
+	* NEWS: Updated to include latest release news.
+
 Tue Dec 28 19:49:00 2004  Balachandran Natarajan  <bala@dre.vanderbilt.edu>
 
 	* Release:
diff --git a/TAO/NEWS b/TAO/NEWS
index 56c4b74a3c6..d40a88443b7 100644
--- a/TAO/NEWS
+++ b/TAO/NEWS
@@ -23,68 +23,78 @@ PLANNED MAJOR CHANGES "SOMETIME IN THE FUTURE" (i.e., exact beta not known)
   . ONGOING - ETA 11/10 -- currently targeted for TAO 1.4.4.  75% complete.
 
 
-PLANNED MAJOR CHANGES TARGETED FOR TAO-1.4.3
+PLANNED MAJOR CHANGES TARGETED FOR TAO-1.4.4
 ============================================
 
 - (Ossama) Remainder of CSIv2 code that didn't make it into TAO 1.4.2
 
   . ONGOING - ETA 11/30
 
-- (Bala) Implementation Repository enhancements
-
-- (OCI) Naming Service implementation fixes
-
-  Wed Aug 25 16:03:29 2004  Chris Cleeland  <cleeland_c@ociweb.com>
-
-- (OCI) Wait on LF No Upcalls wait strategy
-
-  Thu Aug 19 16:49:24 2004  Chris Cleeland  <cleeland_c@ociweb.com>
-
-- (OCI) Parse-magic-bytes re-integration
-
-  Integrated as-is on branch 'pmb_integration'; Mike Martinez will work
-  on performance optimizations beginning 10/11.
-
-- (OCI) [hopeful] Notification Service EventReliability and ConnectionReliability QoS
-
-  Dale Wilson, Ongoing, anticipating 10/15/04.
-
-- (OCI) better compatibility with JDK orb
-
-  Done.
-
-- (JTC) Changed #includes of orbsvcs header files to be consistant.
-  The pathname now always contains a "orbsvcs/" prefix.
-
-  Done.
-
-- (JTC) Split ORB Services into stub, skeleton, and implementation libraries.
-
-  Changes to the Naming, Trading, Event, Notification, and Logging Services
-  have been commited.
-
-- (OCI) Install common utilities (tao_imr, tao_ifr, nslist, nsadd,
-  nsdel, NamingViewer) in $ACE_ROOT/bin.
-
-  Sat Sep 11 12:25:07 2004  Steve Totten  <totten_s@ociweb.com>
-
-- (OCI) New pluggable protocol for GIOP over HTBP, known as HTIOP.
-  Source in orbsvcs/orbsvcs/HTIOP.
-
-  Mon Oct 25 23:13:31 2004  Phil Mesnier  <mesnier_p@ociweb.com>
-
 
 USER VISIBLE CHANGES BETWEEN TAO-1.4.2 and TAO-1.4.3
 ====================================================
 
+. Overall
+  - New pluggable protocol for GIOP over HTBP, known as HTIOP.
+    Source in orbsvcs/orbsvcs/HTIOP.
+  - All TAO-specific vendor IDs are now found in the "TAO" namespace.
+    Documentation for these constants has also been improved in a number
+    of cases.
+  - Further reduced inter-header dependencies.
+  - Fixed memory leak in CDR encapsulation Codec's encode_value()
+    method.
+  - Modified PerlACE scripts for Tests/test environment to allow per-platform
+    customization of process startup delay.  Used the changes in various
+    run_test scripts.
+
 . ORB
-  - Bug 1476-SyncScope::NONE blocks during connects
+  - Bug 1476-SyncScope::NONE blocks during connects.
+  - Improved compatibility with JDK orb.
+  - Added Wait on LF No Upcalls (MT_NOUPCALLS) wait strategy.  However,
+    recent experiences with it indicate there may be problems in scenarios
+    other than its original motivating case (see ChangeLog).  This feature
+    should be considered EXPERIMENTAL, and use it at your own risk.
+  - New CORBALOC parsing is available. This feature allows TAO clients to use
+    any third-party pluggable protocol in corbaloc strings.
+  - Fixed bug that caused memory fault when incoming object reference
+    contains an unknown profile.
+  - Fixed problem in some modules when platform lacks unsigned long long
+    support.
+  - Modified catior to allow decoding of additional protocols.
 
 . POA
   - The PortableServer library isn't depended anymore on the
     ObjRefTemplate and IORInterceptor libraries.  ObjRefTemplate and
     IORInterceptor are loaded on demand and depend on PortableServer.
 
+. TAO_IDL
+  - IDL compiler can be built for environments that lack unsigned long long.
+  - Reduced the amount of code generated by the TAO_IDL compiler when using
+    forward declarations
+
+. ORB Services
+  - Naming Service implementation memory leak fixes.
+  - Split ORB Services into stub, skeleton, and implementation libraries.
+    Changes to the Naming, Trading, Event, Notification, and Logging Services
+    have been commited.
+  - Common utilities (tao_imr, tao_ifr, nslist, nsadd,
+    nsdel, NamingViewer) now installed in $ACE_ROOT/bin.
+  - Changed #includes of orbsvcs header files to be consistant.
+    The pathname now always contains a "orbsvcs/" prefix.
+  - Notification Service EventReliability and ConnectionReliability QoS
+  - Implementation Repository refactored to allow the locator
+    and activator to be used as services, in the ACE Service
+    Configurator framework.  The locator and activator services have
+    been split into separate libraries and executables.  There have also
+    been miscellaneous bugs fixed and performance enhancements made.
+  - Fixed Load Balancer binary generation problem.  Libraries were being
+    created rather than executables.
+  - Work around MSVC++ 6 namespace brain damage in new Security/SSLIOP
+    code.
+  - Fixed memory management problem in SecurityLevel3 code.
+
+
+
 USER VISIBLE CHANGES BETWEEN TAO-1.4.1 and TAO-1.4.2
 ====================================================