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John Ogness | 5 Jan 2004 16:28
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Dazuko 1.2.3-pre1 posted

Hi,

With the release of Dazuko 2.0 coming up, I want to start preparing the
1.x series for retirement. Over the past few months there have been some
bugfixes to the 2.0.0 pre-releases that also address problems that exist
in version 1.2.2. I have now ported this fixes over to 1.2.3-pre1.

I have also eliminated the warning messages for unknown ioctl's. This
will eliminate the appearance of errors occuring when a 2.0 process
initiates communication with a 1.2.3 kernel module. This move may or may
not be controversial. Since 2.0 uses write() instead of ioctl(), there
is no reason for unknown ioctl's for 1.x to even be used. I will have to
think about it... if silently ignoring unknown ioctl's is dangerous.

As I stated in my last email, 1.2.3 will not have any new features.
Although 1.2.3 is a hairy mess compared to the elegance of the 2.0
design, it is just as functional and may even be a little faster
(because of the absense of the abstraction layer). Nonetheless, 2.0 has
evolved to be rock solid and I will be moving 2.0 to be the official
stable version once it is released.

Why am I even releasing a 1.2.3 version, you ask? I'm not sure. Mainly I
just want the 1.x series to end on a "perfect" version. :)

Keep in mind, 1.2.3 only supports Linux 2.2 and 2.4 kernels. Without the
abstraction layer, it cannot be _easily_ made for other systems (even
Linux 2.6).

John Ogness
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John Ogness | 20 Jan 2004 21:36
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Dazuko 1.2.3 released

Hi,

I have just released version 1.2.3 of Dazuko. This will be the last 
version of Dazuko in the 1.x branch. All future development will be in 
the 2.x branch.

Users of older 1.x versions are encouraged to upgrade to the 1.2.3 
version. The new signal handling code from the 2.x branch has been 
incorporated in 1.2.3 and it resolves a lot of known issues 
(particularly with GTK applications).

Users of the 2.0.0-pre5 version should *not* move back to 1.2.3.

Dazuko's 2-year birthday is coming up in 2 weeks. The final release of 
2.0 will probably be coordinated with this date. I'm a sucker for 
software birthdays. ;)

John Ogness

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