Spread 4.0 Released
Spread 4.0 is now available for download.
Spread 4 is a major new version of the Spread project.
This release includes several highly requested new features
that:
- Improve manageability by allowing dynamic configuration
of sets of daemons without requiring a restart;
- Improve performance;
- Ease the development of Spread based applications
with better membership reporting;
- Support multi-threaded forking client applications;
- Integrate a Virtual Synchrony interface;
- Provide simpler membership APIs;
- Organize and improve the software build for both
Windows and Unix systems.
It also includes the usual collection of bug fixes.
A list of major bug fixes can be found in Spread
Releases.
Details of
the new capabilities can be found in Transitioning
from Spread 3.17 to Spread 4.0.
This release does have some specific API changes,
so some (not all) applications may need small source
code changes in order to continue to work. Extensive
documentation is available in the docs directory in
the distributions and in the Spread
4 API.
This release provides a solid platform for Spread
applications. However, because of the API changes it
is not a drop in replacement for current applications.
We highly encourage anyone working on new applications
to use this release. Those currently running Spread
applications should determine the best time for a switch
to Spread 4.
For those who are continuing to use Spread 3.17, an
updated version, Spread 3.17.4, has been released. Spread
3.17.4 includes several bug fixes. It has no external
api changes and does not include major new features.
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