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It has been a while since the last official stable release. So today
we are happy to announce the release of the Iometer 1.1.0 version.

There have been many changes.

Highlights are for instance the libaio support on Linux or the new
timer code on Windows & OS X. Also the data patterns have been extended
and the definition of fixed seeds got added to the random number
generator.

For a complete list of all the changes and bug files being added,
please refer to the CHANGELOG file.... read more

After a good while, we have a new release of Iometer.

The most obvious change is the versioning scheme. The choice of numbering does not indicate anything major -- just simplifying the numbers.

We do have a good number of useful features implemented, the details of which are forthcoming.

We are also including OSX binaries for the first time. Our hope is to provide more pre-built binaries in the future.... read more

Dear Iometer community,

we are happy to announce that there is now an Iometer Users group on LinkedIn.

http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=2976553

The idea is to complement our technical discussion on the mailing-lists with a professional network for connecting with each other, sharing ideas and real world scenarios with like minded people, posting job opportunities and many more.

Looking forward to see you there.... read more

iometer 2006-07-27 stable version is released. please see CHANGELOG for details.

The code repository of the Iometer project will move BerliOS - making use of Subversion.

Project listing at BerliOS: http://developer.berlios.de/projects/iometer/
Code repository at BerliOS: svn://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/iometer/

We are happy to announce, that today the Mac OS X on PPC port has been finally merged into the CVS tree. The port was done by Rick Altherr from Apple and I would like to take the opportunity to thank him for the great work he did here!

The german c't magazine has been publishing a CD with system diagnose software in their latest issue (#17).

This "c't-Software-Kollektion 3/2005" also contains the 2004.07.30 version of Iometer (for Linux and Windows).

Second development snapshot (DS) available in iometer-devel package which contains the changes
that came after the release of 2004.07.30 - beside others:

- #1186329 : iometer-2004.07.30-post.DS1.Rick001AioCancelTry2.patch by
Rick Altherr (Patch that fixes an Completion Queue issue and ensures
that all AIO requests are canceled if the Grunt has finished a test).
- #1186314 : iometer-2004.07.30-post.DS1.Ming017CharDevicesForRaw.patch
by Ming Zhang (Patch that adds support for char devices to support
raw devices).
- #1184731 : iometer-2004.07.30-post.Ming010CpuAffinity.patch by
Ming Zhang (adds CPU affinity support for Linux and Windows).
- #1184663 : iometer-2004.07.30-post.Ming005TargetDiskOverflow.patch
by Ming Zhang (Patch applying the fix submitted by moozart@gmx.de
which resolves a serious overflow in the IOTargetDisk.cpp file).
- #1184655 : iometer-2004.07.30-post.Ming003Gcc34Support.patch by
Ming Zhang (Adds support for the gcc 3.4 compiler).

First development snapshot (DS) available in iometer-devel package which contains the changes
that came after the release of 2004.07.30 - beside others:

- em64t.patch by Henryx W. Tieman (Adds the x86_64 port for AMD
Operton and Intel Xeon with EM64T running Linux or Windows).
- iometer-2004.07.30-post.Ming001AnyBlockDevice.patch by Ming Zhang
(adds command line arguments to the Linux and Solaris variant of
Dynamo, to allow the user to specify block devices which are not
detected by the automatic detection).
- invalid_spec.patch by Lamont Cranston (Allows the user to set any
request sizes, sector allignment etc. - even if it doesn't match the
storage devices block size. While in interactive mode, the user
must confirm his will - in batch mode invalid specifications gets
executed without requiring any kind of confirmation / force flag).

With the 2004.07.30-post development snapshot going to be released today, I'am happy to announce, that the Dynamo for Linux/Windows on x86-64 (AMD Opteron / Intel Xeon with EM64T) port has been finished. The port was done by Henryx W. Tieman and I would like to take the opportunity to thank him for the great work he did here!

Today I would like to release a new Iometer version. I t contains different new platforms, features as well as bugfixes.

Most improtant changes can be found at:
https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=262169

The complete changelog can be found at:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/\*checkout*/iometer/iometer/CHANGELOG?rev=1.59.2.14

With the 2004.07.30 release going to be released today, I'am happy to announce, that the Dynamo for Linux on XScale (IO321, IO331) port has been finished. The port was done by Ming Zhang and I would like to take the opportunity to thank him for the great work he did here!

With the 2004.07.30 release going to be released today, I'am happy to announce, that the Dynamo for Linux on PPC (455) port has been finished. The port was done by Dan Bar Dov and I would like to take the opportunity to thank him for the great work he did here!

Today we would like to provide the first release candidate for a new Iometer version.

The changelog can be found at:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/iometer/iometer/CHANGELOG?rev=1.59.2.12&view=markup

Today I'am happy to announce, that the Dynamo for NetWare on IA32 port has been finished. The port was done by Thayne Harmon and I would like to take the opportunity to thank him for the great work he did here!

The port is part of the latest sources in the CVS tree and will officially be available with the next stable release.

The project is proud to announce the new project homepage at http://www.iometer.org/

New pages contain a team page, screenshots and many more - check it out.

Dear iometer users,

to streamline our communication with each other, we have closed the Open Discussion Forum to focus on the iometer-user mailing list. We think this is a more convenient way of keeping the community close.

Hope to see you there soon.

Best Regards,
Daniel

There is a new file area package called "iometer-devel". It contains so called development snapshots - so consolidated snapshots from the latest CVS stuff. The main purpose is to provide developers/contributers with more recent stuff then the latest stable build can offer. It therefor solves the problem of a.) restrictive firewalls, b.) lack of compiler for the Windows GUI and c.) big efforts while applying patches was based on the latest stable code.

Today I would like to release a new Iometer version. Most changes are due to enormous code cleanup and a few bugfixes.

The changelog can be found at:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/\*checkout*/iometer/iometer/CHANGELOG?rev=HEAD

Starting from today, the project has it's own domain and webspace at www.iometer.org.
Beside this more intuitive name it opens the space for a future Java GUI (no promisses - but options!).

The project homepage [1] now contains a support page containing Known Issues [2] and their workaround - to make your life easier.

[1] = http://iometer.sourceforge.net/
[2] = http://iometer.sourceforge.net/doc/issues.html

The project homepage [1] now contains a Supported Platforms Matrix [2] - containing all OS / platform combinations which are supported.

[1] = http://iometer.sourceforge.net/
[2] = http://iometer.sourceforge.net/doc/matrix.html

Today we uploaded prebuild executables for Windows 64 (on IA64 platform) - you can pick them up in the Files / Download area.

Dear Iometer users, fans, enthusiast ;-)

there is a new mailing list called iometer-user which will serves the community for there communication. It is dedicated to the users of the Iometer tool. Join, meat and profit from each other.

See you there
-Dan

Today we would like to release a new Iometer version. The goal is to apply different patches and bugfixes to streamline and cleanup the code.

The changelog can be found at:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/\*checkout*/iometer/iometer/CHANGELOG?rev=HEAD