[Communicator-user] Announcing the availability of patch 1 to GalaxyCommunicator 2.1

[Samuel L. B. <sa...@li...>]

All -

As I announced on Friday, there is a bug in the Hub in
GalaxyCommunicator 2.1 which causes some systems to manage session IDs
incorrectly. We have provided a patch to GalaxyCommunicator 2.1 which
addresses this problem by reinstating the previous behavior in the
appropriate circumstances. Both CMU and CSLR have installed versions
of this fix and report that their systems now run smoothly, and are
taking advantage of the greater reliability and better memory
management in the 2.1 Hub.

While this patch is adequate for current applications, there are a
number of significant questions about session management which are
currently not addressed by this fix (or in the previous
distributions). We will address these questions more thoroughly in the
upcoming 3.0 distribution.

In addition, we have included the updated log analysis tools which we
previously issued as a patch to GalaxyCommunicator 2.0.1. With this
2.1 patch, both distributions now have the most up-to-date log
analysis tools.

This patch is available in the open-source area at 

http://fofoca.mitre.org/download/index.html

This patch is available as a source-level patch for Unix, and
precompiled binaries for Windows NT are also provided. Note that the
previous 2.1 download for Windows NT linked to the incorrect file;
this problem has also been fixed.

Please report all bugs, as usual, to bug...@li.... 

Sam Bayer
for the Communicator team