[Spread-users] Spread version 3.13 released
Jonathan Stanton
jonathan at cs.jhu.edu
Wed Aug 16 16:41:24 EDT 2000
Hi all,
I'm very happy to announce the release of the Spread 3.13. This release
has seen substantial internal testing and should be both more stable and
faster then Spread 3.12. However, our testing environment is quite limited
compared to what is out there in the wild Internet, so please email me if
you have any problems or comments.
You can download the new release from the usual place:
http://www.cnds.jhu.edu/download/spread.tar.gz
Jonathan
The official announcement follows
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Spread 3.13 released.
A major new version of the Spread Wide-Area Group Communication toolkit was
released today. The major new featurs of this release are:
* Major scalability improvements. Should now support upto 990 connections
to each daemon, thousands of groups, upto 128 daemons per configuration,
and double the throughput for small messages.
* A new, more flexible and readable configuration file format. The
configuration file is now called 'spread.conf' and has a simplified
format that also allows runtime configuration of the log format, which
messages to log, and a flag to disable certain dangerous monitor commands.
All known bugs are also fixed with this version. This includes a bug with
the new NO_DROP semantics in version 3.12 and some membership crashes that
occur under high load. Behind the scenes, this version consolidates some
of the research done in the Center for Networking and Distributed Systems
lab (http://www.cnds.jhu.edu) at Johns Hopkins University over the
last few years into the public distribution.
The Non-commercial license for Spread has been updated to version 1.2. The
changes include a clarification about Spread versions, a small addition to
the attribution requirement and a capitalization of the word SPREAD.
Currently two freely-available commercial use licenses are available for
Spread. One allows the use of Spread for distributed logging of Apache web
server logs, and the other allows the use of Spread for distributed SSL
session caching with Apache-SSL. For more details please see
http://www.spread.org/license/
Other commercial licenses or other licensing arrangements are available.
Please contact yairamir at spreadconcepts.com. We are looking for partners
interested in using group communications and/or replication to solve
demanding, real-world problems.
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Jonathan R. Stanton jonathan at cs.jhu.edu
Dept. of Computer Science
Johns Hopkins University
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