[opendds-main] OpenDDS 3.6 now available for download

[Jeff S. <sch...@oc...>]

OpenDDS version 3.6 is now available for download. Please
seehttp://download.ociweb.com/OpenDDS for the download.

An updated version of the OpenDDS Developer's Guide is available from
the same site in PDF format.

Features added and bugs/fixes in this OpenDDS version:
(This is an excerpt of the NEWS, for full change information see the
NEWS and the ChangeLog within the source distribution)

   - The discovery framework of OpenDDS has been refactored to be more
asynchronous. This should make discovery faster and more reliable for
both publishing and subscribing clients, regardless of the discovery
mechanism used (RTPS or InfoRepo).
   - DataWriters now release locks more quickly than before. This
allows the transport to be available to more threads when compared to
3.5.1.
   - Improved DDS specification compliance with regards to
reliability, resource limits, and history qos settings. Specifically,
reliable data writers may block for max_blocking_time and potentially
return DDS::RETCODE_TIMEOUT in situations where they would have simply
written the data in older version of OpenDDS. The new behavior is
required by the DDS specification, see section 7.1.2.4.2.11 of the
version 1.2 specification for details. This change affects various
operations of the data writer interface including the write and
register operations.
   - The wireshark dissector now supports wireshark versions 1.8.x,
1.10.x, 1.12.x, and 1.99.1.
   - The modeling framework now support Eclipse 4.4 (Luna) and GMF 3.1.x
   - Added a public_address option for the tcp transport. This option
allows a tcp transport instance to listen on one address
(local_address) while advertising another address (public_address) to
discovery. This feature was used to allow a proxy process between the
subscriber and publisher in the TcpReconnect test, but may also be
useful in other deployment scenarios, especially using OpenDDS through
a firewall.
   - There were a number of concurrency and thread utilization
improvements. These changes fixed a number of threading issues as well
as improving the efficiency of publication.
   - Fixed some issues with RTPS discovery.
   - Fixed a number of issues related to the reconnect functionality
of the tcp transport.
   - Fixed some bugs in the OpenDDS IPv6 support.
   - Eliminate duplicate samples received during durable resend.
   - Fixed memory leak at shutdown time in modeling library.
   - Many updates to make test results more complete and deterministic.
   - Added a TcpReconnect test that exercised the ability of the tcp
transport to seamlessly reconnect OpenDDS clients when the transport
layer drops a connection.
   - Added a WriteDataContainer unit test to verify data writer memory
management compliance with the DDS specification.
   - Added a PubScalability test that was used to test association and
publications with large numbers of subscribers.
   - Added a packet reassembly unit test.