ChangeLogTag: Wed Feb 11 02:15:21 UTC 2009 William R. Otte <wotte@dre.vanderbilt.edu>prism_import

1 files changed, 51 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/flat/CIAO/NEWS b/flat/CIAO/NEWS
index 5f3d475d394..c8fec3bb268 100644
--- a/flat/CIAO/NEWS
+++ b/flat/CIAO/NEWS
@@ -1,16 +1,30 @@
-PLANNED MAJOR CHANGES FOR NEXT RELEASE (i.e., after 0.5.7)
-===========================================================================
-. Start update of IDL/semantics to conform to 06-04-01 specification.
-  This will immediately break most CIAO specific extensions, such as shared
-  components and ReDaC.
+PLANNED CHANGES BEFORE NEXT RELEASE
+===================================
 
-. Expand support for complex types in deployment XML.
+This is advanced notification that the CIAO-0.6.7 release of CIAO will be
+the last release before a major refactoring is introduced into CIAO/DAnCE
+that will remove several features, with no planned replacement in
+their current form, such as:
 
-. Enable use of CDR encoded deployment plans.
+.  ReDaC
+.  Shared Components
+
+Some features are being temporarily removed but with planned
+replacement in the near term:
+
+.  RTEC Integration
+.  Static Deployment
+.  TargetManager
+.  RepositoryManager
+.  Swapping container
 
 PLANNED MAJOR CHANGES "SOMETIME IN THE FUTURE" (i.e., exact beta not known)
 ===========================================================================
 
+. Expand support for complex types in deployment XML.
+
+. Enable use of CDR encoded deployment plans.
+
 . Enhance Execution Manager and Domain Application Manager to make calls
   on the Target Manager to get resource information.
 
@@ -71,9 +85,39 @@ PLANNED MAJOR CHANGES "SOMETIME IN THE FUTURE" (i.e., exact beta not known)
 . Implement a planner to query the TargetManager and RepositoryManager
   and generate deployment plans on the fly.
 
+. Start update of IDL/semantics to conform to 06-04-01 specification.
+  This will immediately break most CIAO specific extensions, such as shared
+  components and ReDaC.
+
+USER VISIBLE CHANGES BETWEEN CIAO-0.6.8 and CIAO-0.6.9
+======================================================
+
+USER VISIBLE CHANGES BETWEEN CIAO-0.6.7 and CIAO-0.6.8
+======================================================
+
+USER VISIBLE CHANGES BETWEEN CIAO-0.6.6 and CIAO-0.6.7
+======================================================
+
+. Added the "CIAO" OCI Development Guide Examples under the directory
+  /DevGuideExamples.  NOTE this is an ongoing port of the original
+  version x.5.x examples and some are not yet 100% compatiable with the
+  current version of CIAO.
+
+USER VISIBLE CHANGES BETWEEN CIAO-0.6.5 and CIAO-0.6.6
+======================================================
+
+. None
+
+USER VISIBLE CHANGES BETWEEN CIAO-0.6.4 and CIAO-0.6.5
+======================================================
+
+. None
+
 USER VISIBLE CHANGES BETWEEN CIAO-0.6.3 and CIAO-0.6.4
 ======================================================
 
+. None
+
 USER VISIBLE CHANGES BETWEEN CIAO-0.6.2 and CIAO-0.6.3
 ======================================================