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Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 21:34:24 +0100
From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: ANNOUNCE: libsocket 0.8.0 pre 1
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Hello.

I'm pleased to announce libsocket 0.8.0 pre 1. This is a bugfix release in
the run up to the full 0.8.0 release. I decided to release 0.7.4 as 0.8.0,
since a lot has changed since development changed.

The new version can be downloaded from the libsocket home page:

    http://libsocket.tsx.org/

or the Estonian mirror site:

    http://libsocket.vip.ee/

These are the download pages:

    http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/lsck/lsck_dl.htm
    http://libsocket.vip.ee/lsck_dl.htm

This is principally a development version, so I haven't uploaded on the
DJGPP file archives. You may want to upgrade if you have a problem listed
in the changelog.

Here is a list of changes in no particular order:

   * Texinfo documentation: corrected copyright message to include
     Alain Magloire in info version; now distributed under GNU FDL.

   * Fixed assembly code to work with binutils 2.9.5.1 beta and later.
     Hopefully libsocket will build with _all_ versions of binutils
     now.  Thanks to Eli Zaretskii for his help & suggestions.

   * Problems using libsocket with firewall software were discovered
     and documented. Thanks to Robert, Tim van Holder.

   * The demo `solist' now builds on Linux.

   * The source distribution requires GNU shellutils to build; this is
     now documented.

   * The binary distribution had dependency generation for the demo and
     netsetup directories.  This is no longer included - it was not
     very useful and it meant that GNU shellutils was required to build
     (only `echo' was actually required).

   * `all' target now fixed in source distribution, so that it doesn't
     run `netsetup' by default.  This problem stopped cross-compilation
     from completing.

   * The error code `ELOOP' is now defined conditionally in
     `include/lsck/errno.h', so as not to conflict with DJGPP 2.04's
     symlink support (DJGPP 2.04 is currently in development).  Thanks
     to Laurynas Biveinis.

   * Finished error messages for all libsocket-specific error messages
     in `src/newerror.c'.

   * Fixed the code for parsing the DHCP settings from the registry.
     Thanks to Tim van Holder.

Please note that I'm away for a fortnight starting Friday, so I won't be
able to respond to e-mail for a while.

Thanks, bye,

-- 
Richard Dawe
[ mailto:richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com | http://www.bigfoot.com/~richdawe/ ]