[Dazuko-devel] Dazuko 1.2.x and 1.3.x

[John Ogness]

Hi,

Exciting news! The latest version (in CVS) has complete support for 
FreeBSD (I have only tested it with versions 4.8 and 4.9-PRERELEASE). 
This includes SMP, chroot, fullpath, and local file accesses. The only 
thing left to implement is some memory bounds checking for the userland 
pointers. This means that 1.3.0-pre2 will be posted very soon and this 
will most likely be the final pre-release before 1.3.0.

I will also be releasing 1.2.2 very soon. It adds multi-thread 
capability to Dazuko's interface. (However, multi-threading does not and 
will not work for FreeBSD in 1.3.0)

I want to do one more release (after 1.2.2) in the 1.2.x branch before 
encouraging everyone to move to 1.3.x. The final features of 1.2.3 will be:
  - each registered group has its own include/exclude lists
  - global list locks are broken down to local list locks

With these features, 1.2.3 will really be a fabulous version under 
Linux. Version 1.3.1 will also have all these features, but as mentioned 
before, it will have a substantial amount of new code, which has not 
been so well proven as the 1.2.x code.

What I also will be building into 1.3.1 is a completely new (yet fully 
backward compatible) device protocol. This will make it *much* easier to 
extend features and available information in the future. Although this 
will be a large effort, I think it will be worth it in the long run.

As one last note, I have developed a "configure" script for detecting 
your system and building Dazuko.

./configure
make

Since it takes all possible options (and operating systems) into 
account, it should make it much easier for people to get Dazuko up and 
running. This will be available in all future releases.

John Ogness

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Dazuko Maintainer