News 2002

October 21, 2002

Spread Users Guide Updated

The Users Guide has been updated with information about recent Spread releases and has received some editing. It is available at http://www.spread.org/docs/guide/.

September 28, 2002

Spread 3.17.0 released

It can be downloaded here.

Spread Concepts LLC and Johns Hopkins Center for Networking and Distributed System are happy to announce the release of a new stable version, 3.17.0, of the Spread toolkit.

This release includes new features, substantial build improvements and some bugfixes that break backwards compatibility. This break with backwards compatibility and the new features are the reason for the increase in minor version number.

Note, that the library name change from libsp to libspread requires any application using Spread to change how they link. Some new functions were also added to the C API to provide access to certain membership fields, these functions replace the hardcoded byte offsets that were prevously documented and should be used instead of those fixed offsets in all applications.

With the Spread Open Source License, the toolkit may be freely used under some conditions. For example, the license includes the requirement that all advertising materials (including web pages) mentioning software that uses Spread display a specific acknowledgement. Please review the license agreement for more details. http://www.spread.org/license/

Other commercial licenses or other licensing arrangements are available. Please contact michal@spreadconcepts.com. We are looking for partners interested in using group communication and/or replication to solve demanding, real-world problems.

For more information look at the Spread website or the changelog.
April 2, 2002

Spread 3.16.2 released

It can be downloaded here.

A new stable version, 3.16.2, of the Spread toolkit was released today. The main focus of this release was bugfixes and stability. This release should be significantly more stable and should especially work much better on Windows platforms.

With the Spread Open Source License, the toolkit may be freely used under some conditions. For example, the license includes the requirement that all advertising materials (including web pages) mentioning software that uses Spread display a specific acknowledgement. Please review the license agreement for more details. http://www.spread.org/license/

Other commercial licenses or other licensing arrangements are available. Please contact michal@spreadconcepts.com. We are looking for partners interested in using group communication and/or replication to solve demanding, real-world problems.

For more information look at the Spread website or the changelog.