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STAF V3.4.22 and STAX V3.5.14 are available

STAF V3.4.22, STAX V3.5.14 and Email V3.3.9 are available. You can find more information and download the binaries from the official STAF (Software Test Automation Framework) web site at http://staf.sourceforge.net/. These releases contain new features, bug fixes, and documentation updates.

STAF V3.4.22 includes:

1) Operating System Updates:
-- Changed to use RHEL 6.6 for the linux 32-bit STAF build system instead of RHEL 5.11
-- Changed to use Windows 7 for the winamd64 STAF codepage build and test system instead of Windows Server 2008
-- Added OpenSSL support for STAF on Linux PPC64 LE (Little Endian)

2) Language Support Enhancements:
-- Added support for Perl 5.18 on Linux 32-bit and AMD64
-- Fixed error "Constant name HASH has invalid characters" when using STAF Perl support with Perl 5.6

3) Performance Improvement:
-- Improved the performance of the LOG service when querying or purging a large number of log records from the end of the log file

4) Usability Improvement:
-- Improved STAF configuration file error messages by adding the line number of the invalid line

5) Documentation Update:
-- Added a STAF FAQ entry to explain why on Windows some commands like "reg query" that are run via the PROCESS service may return different output than if run via the command line (without using STAF) if you installed a Windows 32-bit version of STAF on a Windows 64-bit system

STAX V3.5.14 includes:

1) Stability Improvement:
-- Fixed a problem where a STAX job could hang when it calls a function with a "local" scope due to a thread-safety issue cloning Python variables

Email V3.3.9 includes:

1) Usability Improvement:
-- Removed the leading comma from the To:, Cc:, and Bcc: values that are written to the SMTP message headers

Posted by Sharon Lucas 2015-06-26

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