[jboss-dev] JGroups 2.5.2 released

Hi everyone, On behalf of the JGroups team, i'm pleased to announce that JGroups 2.5.2 has been released! The binary and source distribution can be downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6081. The release notes and change log are below. Enjoy ! Richard Achmatowicz Release Notes JGroups 2.5.2 =========================== JGroups 2.5.2 is a patch release for 2.5 GA. It contains no new functionality, but some limited feature requests and primarily bug fixes. IMPORTANT NOTE: JGroups 2.5.2 is also an EOL (End of Line) release for JGroups 2.5 - meaning that it represents the last release of JGroups 2.5.x. The reason is that 2.4.x is used in JBoss EAP 4, 2.6.2 will be used in EAP 5, and 2.5.x is somewhat orphaned in between. Any bugs found in 2.5 will only get fixed in 2.6. It is a simple matter to switch from 2.5 to 2.6. Manual ------ The manual is online at http://www.jgroups.org/javagroupsnew/docs/manual/html/index.html Bug fixes --------- GMS: A concurrency-related exception which was preventing successful group merges and necessitated shutdown of the enire group. [JGRP-611] - MergeTask GMS ConcurrentModificationException SEQUENCER: SEQUENCER provides total ordering of messages. This issue caused total ordering to be violated in circumstances involving concurrent sends. [JGRP-607] - SEQUENCER: incorrect ordering on concurrent sends RPC DISPATCHER: The callRemoteMethods() method would hang on some processes within a group during periods where group membership was changing significantly. [JGRP-620] - RpcDispatcher.callRemoteMethods() hangs Feature Requests ---------------- REINCARNATION: reincarnation occurs when a group member crashes and upon restart assumes the identity of a member known previously to the group, which leads to anomalous behaviour. [JGRP-130] - Problems with reincarnation Tasks ----- CHANNEL OPTIONS: Shunned channels will now automatically attempt to rejoin the group, and fetch the state from the coordinator by default. [JGRP-651] - JChannel: set auto_reconnect and auto_getstate to true by default The complete list of features and bug fixes can be found at http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JGRP. Bela Ban, Kreuzlingen, Switzerland, January 2008 Change Log ========= Release Notes - JGroups - Version 2.5.2 ** Bug * [JGRP-607] - SEQUENCER: incorrect ordering on concurrent sends * [JGRP-610] - Problems with large return value and FC * [JGRP-611] - MergeTask GMS ConcurrentModificationException * [JGRP-617] - ConcurrentModificationException sending notifications in ReplicatedHashMap. * [JGRP-620] - RpcDispatcher.callRemoteMethods() hangs * [JGRP-649] - FC: NPE if sender of credits is null ** Feature Request * [JGRP-130] - Problems with reincarnation * [JGRP-535] - NAKACK: release lock when message is delivered ** Task * [JGRP-609] - Javadoc JChannelFactory * [JGRP-615] - UDP: JGroups always allocates the same ports * [JGRP-651] - JChannel: set auto_reconnect and auto_getstate to true by default