[sstepd-devel] sstepd 0.2.0 has been released!

[Takahiro Y. <tak...@mo...>]

Hello,

After 6 monthes of silence, sstepd 0.2.0 is tagged and ready for download.
Please get it from usual place.

This release is our first stable *alpha* one.
So feel free and jump in :-)

Moderate rewrite has been done on this release.  Please feel free to report
problems if it happens to fail or panicks on you.


Release Highlights:

1. sysfs support.
==================

Finally, sysfs is supported.  That is, we're no longer only for 2.4 kernels! 
(Tested here with 2.6.3 and 2.4.20.)

./configure should detect the version of kernel you are running and correctly
determine which scheme to be used.  Should it fails or you're crossing, use 
the --{enable|disable}-sysfs option to override it.


2. Working global options.  
===========================

The global options in the configuration file is fully working.

The 'disable_on' lets you specify affinity masks.

And the 'update_interval' option lets you specify the frequency update
interval.  This is what the '-i' command line option was meant for; as it
still has the precedence, so check your boot script again!


3. Massive updates on documentations.
======================================

The man pages are no longer crap.  They should now be somewhat at least
useful.  The CONFIG-FILE in the distribution is to be deprecated.


4. Much lower frequency update interval.
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The default frequency update interval has been changed to 66ms (15 updates/s).
It was 3000ms in previous releases.  If the new one is too low for your
machine, tune it with the configuration file, or use the '-i' command line
option.


5. Hardened parser/lexers.
===========================

The error/token checks on parser/lexers are hardened.  Please help us hardening
them more further by providing crashing cases.


Bugs? Suggestions? 
Please feel free to speak your mind at <sst...@li...>.

We'll be glad to hear your feedback and ideas!

Enjoy, 
-- 
Takahiro Yoshimura

Monolith Works Co.,Ltd.
Lead Programmer / Network Administrator

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