

version 2.3.5

- reduced number of warning generated when using -Wall
- check for empty names in TypeRepository_impl::add_type (Carsten Zerbst)
- adopted life cycle service to new out parameter mapping
- various fixes for Visual C++ (Adam Gates)

version 2.3.4

- fixed wchar/wstring encoding for GIOP 1.2
- various fixes for the IDL compiler related to #pragma directives
  (provided by Francis J. Lacoste)
- added demo to show implementation for generic client and server
  based on DII and DSI (see mico/demo/generic)
- fixed bug in POA builtin method handling related to using interceptors
  on the server side (reported by Ken A. Redergard)
- allow new INS format arguments for --regname (events, property, time
  services) (Carsten Zerbst)
- added ORB::{un,}register_profile_id() to dynamically add/remove
  protocols without recompiling mico
- fixed bug in UnknownProfile::decode() (Marcus Wittig)
- renamed orb.h to orb_mico.h; there is a new empty orb.h which will be
  included by files generated from .idl's that include orb.idl
- fixed ambiquity in SSLComponent constructors (Rudolf Weber)
- fixed bug in parsing fixed constants (Rudolf Weber)
- fixed POA crash when client uses non existent poa name in iioploc url
  (Adam Stanbridge)
- fixed AIX C++ related bug in Naming_impl.h (Martin Aberle)
- fixed bug in demo/siegel (Didier Fort)
- fixed bug in ministl bstring (Andrew Marlow)
- fixed bug in event service (Jason Nye)
- changed the way service context list is handled: the user has to provide
  the contents of an ENCAPSULATED sequence (i.e., including the byte order
  octet) in the interceptor and will receive the contents of an sequence
  ENCAPSULATED (i.e., including the byte order octet) in the interceptor;
  this is because only the user knows the (encoded) contents of the service
  context and therefore has to know the byteorder (which is part of the
  encapsulation) to decode the contents
- clear service context list on the server side to avoid bouncing back
  service contexts the client sent (reported by David Garfield)
- fixed some SSL problems (reported by Timothy Wall)
- fixed bug in response_flags handling for GIOP 1.2
- changes for Borland C++ (Steven Kirk)
- new options -ORBIIOPVersion (to control the IIOP profile version of
  generated object references on the server side) and -ORBGIOPVersion
  (to control the GIOP version when generating GIOP requests on the
  client side)
- configure changes for DEC C++ 6.2 (Pit Linnartz)
- new coss lifecycle and extrenalization releases (Dmitry Sedov)
- implemented PrincipalCurrent to allow accessing CORBA::Principal when
  using POA, mainly for use with SSL
- fixes for gcc 2.95.2
- IDL compiler now generates POA-skeletons by default. Use IDL compiler
  options --boa --no-poa if you need BOA-based skeletons.
- generate correct C++ code for IDL types [unsigned] long long
  (reported by Xavier Montet)
- more changes for Sun C++ 5
- fixed memory management bug in Any::copy_any() and event service
- changed to_{w}string and from_{w}string according to latest c++ mapping
- changes for AIX xlC 5.0 (Martin Aberle)
- check for duplicate service super types in trading service (Thomas Langen)
- fixed bugs in dynany_impl
- fixed bugs in property service (Leif Jakobsmeier)
- made IDL to C++ mapping for out parameters CORBA 2.3 compliant. IDL
  Compiler will now generate T_out helper types. Note: this requires
  changes on server side code if the user interface uses out parameters
  (reported by Guy Keren)
- made Any::operator>>=() CORBA 2.3 compliant
- removed Boolean Any::operator>>= (Any &) const; for CORBA 2.3 compliance
- removed configure option --enable-corba2-1

version 2.3.3

- workaround for visibroker4: it generates zero length encapsulations
  in service contexts that do not contain the required byte order octet
- fixed problem with typedefs in DynAny (P. Merle)
- Dropped Simple(En)|(De)coder, as it induced bugs with Any demarshalling
- workaround for HP aCC in trader_main.cc (Graham W Hudspith)
- fixed bug in POA_impl::the_children() (Fred Patrick)
- added naming service load balancing support (Hann Wei Toh)
- ported mico/tools/ir-browser to win32
- fixed bugs in ministl's map::clear() and set::clear()
- new eventd command line option --max-queue-size to limit size of
  outstanding event queue
- added preliminary support for Sun C++ 5
- fixed bug in DynAny (w)string insertion/extraction code (P. Merle)
- Fix Naming Service persistent bug. nsd now offers a --db option like
  the other repositories and uses only this single file for its database.
- Fixed problem with forwarded objects and persistency (Fred Patrick)
- Added support for corbaloc: and corbaname: URLs according to ptc/99-12-02.
  iioploc: and iiopname: are still there for backwards compatibility but
  deprecated.
- Added shortcut for arrays/sequences of octet in CORBA::Any::copy_any().
- The ORB now looks at an object reference's profiles to decide whether the
  object is local or remote rather depending on the object key alone. As a
  side effect, the POA Implementation Name now needs not be globally unique
  any more but need only be unique within an Implementation Repository.
- Better support for file:// IORs in Win32. Accept file://<drive>:/path and
  file:////drive/path (i.e. empty hostname, filename //drive/path).
- Some support for Mingw32 (Cygwin32 minus the Posix runtime cygwin1.dll).
  Static build so far only. Set CC, CXX, CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS properly to
  include the mingw target headers/libraries, CXXFLAGS="-DBUILD_MICO_DLL
  -D_WINDOWS", then run ./configure --disable-shared --disable-dynamic
  --disable-mini-stl. Then substitute os-unix.cc with os-windows.cc in
  orb/Makefile. You may also have to remove ssl.cc and tckind.cc from
  SRCS there. Read the mno-cygwin-howto before attempting any of this!
- allocate array params on heap in skeleton (Christophe Rene)
- fixed bug in FixedBase::operator! (Stefan Wengi)
- fixed bug in MIDL codegenerator (Massimo Di Giorgio)
- added alpha versions of lifcycle and externalization services,
  you have to explicitely enable them using configure options
  --enable--life and --enable-externalize (Dmitry Sedov)
- fix restarting servers after power-cycling micod (Fred Patrick)

version 2.3.2

- block SIGPIPE to avoid beeing killed when peer aborts a unix socket
  connection (Chris McClellen)
- workaround for VC++ bug wrt anonymous structures (Oliver Willenbrock)
- fixed problem with read() returning ECONNRESET after writing on a
  connection that has been closed by the peer
- fixed sprintf() bugs in os-windows.cc (Ken Anders Redergard)
- fixed bug in IR browser (reported by Heinz)
- fixed scoping rules for #pragma prefix (reported by Fred Patrick)
- include tools directory in Makefile.win32 for target w95-all
- workaround for VC++ namespace problems (Jasper Ullrich)
- link nsd.exe with util.obj to avoid segmentation faults (Ferran Boladeres)

version 2.3.1

- fixed CORBA::InterfaceDef::describe_interface(), which must include info
  for inherited ops and attributes as per 2.3 spec. Fixed code that depended
  on the old behavior.
- workaround for VC++ namespace problems in generated OBV code
  (Andreas Rudolf)
- fixed bug for coercions between bounded and unbounded strings
- Don't assert(0) if POA initialization fails (i.e. -POAImplName without
  an option), but throw an exception instead. (Carsten Zerbst)
- Added support for file: and http: URI's according to the INS spec. (See
  also RFC 1630). Referenced files must contain a single IOR. HTTP client
  speaks 0.9 so far.
- ird, micod and nsd now sport a `--ior' option to write their object
  reference into a file. Therefore, you can now connect to a Naming Ser-
  vice in an entirely CORBA compliant manner: `nsd --ior /tmp/nsd.ref',
  then run `client -ORBInitRef NameService=file://localhost/tmp/nsd.ref'.
- Got rid of local static objects, which cause problems when MICO is used
  as loadable module.
- fixed CORBA::ORB::poll_next_response() and CORBA::ORB::get_next_response()
- do not enter dispatcher in CORBA::Request::poll_response()
- Persistent POAs with SYSTEM_ID prefix UIDs with a GUID and do not need to
  save their state in the IMR any more
- fixed operator <<= (CORBA::Any&, CORBA::UnknownUserException*)
- fixed bug in UnknownComponent::decode() (Marcus Wittig)
- added examples of Jon Siegel's upcoming book
- made IDL compiler less sensitive to \r (Andreas Schultz)
- micod now attempts to restart a failed (POA persistent) server after 30
  seconds (overridable using `imr activate') (Bernhard Wallner)
- added workaround for broken Visibroker recursive typecodes (Drew MacInnis)
- dont print error messages in resolve_initial_references() (A. Kersting)
- improved property service (Leif Jacobsmeier)
- changed relationship for better traversing graph of related objects
  (patch provided by Dmitry V. Sedov)
- bug fix for --feed-ir: do not feed included definitions by default
  (reported by Nikolaj Logvinov)
- require fully scoped name for CORBA::Principal in IDL specifications
  (reported by Michael Dickson)
- check for EWOULDBLOCK after select() (reported by Thomas Graefenhain)
- fixed bug in automatic port selection in UDPTransport (reported by
  Leif Jacobsmeier)
- added workaround for "typedef char *string" name clash in exception.h
- fixed bug in StaticRequest::get_response() (David J Worthey)
- fixed bug in TypeCode::equal() when comparing unions (Sai-Lai Lo &
  Chengjiang Lin) 
- fixed problem with handling of Object IDs containing `/' or `\\'
  in POA (Andreas Hess)
- fixed problems with --enable-corba2-1 (reported by David Worthey)
- changed ORB::create_list(len) to not fill the list with "len" elements
  but only reserve space for "len" element as per CORBA 2.3 spec
- CORBA 2.3 specifies a Any::type(CORBA::TypeCode_ptr) method that conflicts
  with the existing method. renamed old method to set_type() and implemented
  reimplemented type() to conform to the CORBA 2.3 specs
- moved part of README-WIN32 to the docs
- fixed bug in POA::servant_to_reference (Carsten Zerbst)
- use INS-compliant encoding for "path names" in nsadmin, if actually
  talking to an Interoperable Naming Service (Yu Cao)
- fixed relship and relship demo for --disable-except and --disable-std-eh
- fixed win32 related problems (Alexander Rieger)
- fixed bugs in POA mediator related to servers not started by micod
  (Alexander Rieger)
- fixed bug in IIOPProxy::make_conn()
- work around missing ftime() prototype on Solaris 2.5.1 (reported by
  Guochun Lin)
- fixed gcc 2.95 related problems in SSL code (reported by Martin Bassner)
- added options for irix CC to fix sysmbol tabel overflow (Yu Cao)
- changed Any::to_object and Any::to_abstract_base extraction again
  to return a duplicate as per CORBA 2.3 spec (reported by Jasper Ulrich)
- only unforward upon COMM_FAILURE, TRANSIENT, OBJECT_NOT_EXIST
  system exceptions in Request and StaticRequest (reported by Dirk
  Foersterling)
- fixed configure problem; do not try to link with libstdc++ when
  not using miniSTL (reported by Andy Kersting)
- changed RandomGenerator IDL to fix name clash with STL (reported by
  Andy Kersting)
- fixed relationship service code to work with --disable-std-eh (reported
  by Marcel May)

version 2.3.0

- fix for OS/2 in admin/config.sub (Ralf Barkow)
- integrated new release of the relationship service (Karel Gardas)
- fixed bug in NamingContext::list() (Rudolf Koenig)
- fixed bug in Request::send_deferred() (reported by Yu Cao)
- fixed bug that led to an infinite loop in the IIOP code when contacting
  a nonexistent object in an existent server (reported by Robert Switzer)
- fixed crash that occured under certain conditions when decoding garbage
  (reported by Roger Karrer)
- describe win32 fix to reduce delay after server restart in README-WIN32
  (Wolf-Dieter Held)
- unforward objects in ORB::redo_request() before redoing the invocation
- added send_deferred() and get_response() to StaticRequest (Christophe Rene)
- fix for gcc 2.95 (Martin Cornelius) 
- added some new commands to nsadmin (iordump, repoid, locurl) (Rudolf Weber)
- fixed bugs in coss/trader/Makefile
- added workaround for problems with sending on a closed TCP connection
- ORB changes for CORBA 2.3
- updated demo/dynany for CORBA 2.3 DynAny
- DynAny changes for CORBA 2.3 (these are substantial, code using DynAny
  needs a major rework)
- various Makefile fixes for Win32 (Rudolf Janz)
- fixed race condition in POA Mediator (Wolf-Dieter Held)
- fixed Win32 process handling problems (Wolf-Dieter Held)
- fixed bug in client side IIOP connection reference counting (bug reported
  by Alexander Rieger)
- set MICORC=/dev/null in all demo scripts
- fixed bugs in trader federation code (Oscar Stiffelman)
- POA changes for CORBA 2.3
- OBV changes for CORBA 2.3 (inheritance changes, and the syntax for
  initializers has changed; `factory' is now a keyword)
- implemented time service (Carsten Zerbst)
- new option --regname for event and property daemons to specify the
  name(s) under which to register with the naming service
- renamed naming.idl, trader.idl, typerepo.idl to CosNaming.idl,
  CosTrading.idl, CosTradingRepos.idl, respectively
- changes for Sun C++ 4.2
- mico-shld.def.in: added missing $libdirs to command line (Don Libes)
- fixed bug in name service restore() code (Jacques Tremblay)
- allow shell style comments in .micorc file
- renamed LevelRecord::None due to problems with X11 (Thomas Langen)
- fixed bug in IMR saving code in micod (Johan van den Berg)
- allow passing NIL to connect_*() in event service (Georg Kindermann)
- remove gtkmico-c.cc (Jim Robinson)
- raise TRANSIENT instead of COMM_FAILURE when connection breaks after
  invocation has been sent (Georg Kindermann)
- fix to make --relative-paths work when include path contains ./'s
  (Harri Porten)
- fix for --enable-final (Will Taylor)
- run ldconfig after make install (Dirk A. Mueller)
- avoid warnings for -pedantic (Dirk A. Mueller)
- prefer exception over exception.h in except2.cc (Jasper Ullrich)
- fixed gcc 2.7.2 problem in transport.cc (Hann Wei Toh)
- fixed include prefix for win32 makefiles in demo/services/* and
  demo/boa/* (Chris McDonald)
- fixed problem with unresolved external Exception::_raise()
- fixed configure bug related to --disable-mini-stl (Rainer Wirtz)
- fixed problem with passing string constants to UDPTransport::write()
  (Harri Porten)
- fixed problems with function pointer casts in ssl.cc (Andy Kersting)
- fixed bug in coss/trader/register.h; the define is called USE_CORBA_2_1
- fixes for Cygwin32 in ir-browser/diiproxy.cc (Dr. Volker Zell)
- fixes for QT 1.44 in qtmico.h (Rudolf Weber)
- fixed bugs in Any::to_object() and Any::to_abstract_base() (Owen Taylor)
- fix for IRIX 6.5 in idl/yacc.yy (Yu Cao)
- fixed bug in BOAImpl::del_record()
- added redlich/README to MANIFEST
- added option -ORBNoResolve to avoid resolving given IP addresses into
  hostnames (dotted decimal notation is used instead)
- IDL compiler:
  * avoid assignment of arrays in generated code (Frederic Lacoste-Seris,
    Graham Hudspith, Georg Kindermann)
  * generate two distinct marshallers for recursive and non-recursive
    sequences of the same type, because recursive and non-recursive
    sequences use different sequence templates
  * changed generated code to make it compile with CORBA-SMALL.h
  * fixed bug in IDL code generator (Guenter Kempter)
  * removed option --query-server-for-narrow which is now the default.
    use option --do-not-query-server-for-narrow to disable interaction
    with remote servers during a _narrow() operation
  * removed option --use-dii

version 2.2.7

- create implementation repositorty entries for BOA persistent
  servers in a local implementation repository to avoid polluting
  micod's global implementation repository
- added file CONVERT which describes how existing code must be
  changed for MICO 2.2.7
- changes for OpenSSL (Rudolf Weber)
- fixed memory management bug in Buffer::reset()
- added experimental UDP support; see demo/mcast for a simple
  fault tolerance example
- allow multiple IOR profiles of the same type
- removed the check for gcc version in configure, there are too many
  different versions out there.
- added patches for "Advanced CORBA Programming with C++"; see demo/henning
- made --enable-final work again
- fixed bug in BOA: has_object() must return TRUE if passed object
  is the remote (i.e., micod) objref of an object in this BOA
- added COM/CORBA interworking demo (see demo/com-interworking) (provided
  by Massimo Di Giorgio)
- ported SSL support to Win32 (Alfonso Urdaneta)
- fixes for 64 bit platforms in buffer.cc: pointers cannot be cast to
  32 bit integer types
- nsadmin: dont interpret slashes in names enclosed in quotes (')
- nsadmin: allow using null IORs
- improved overall performance by about 35% (according to demo/bench)
- new option -ORBIIOPBlocking to make IIOP use sockets in blocking
  mode. this gains some extra performance but nested method invocations
  dont work when this option is specified.
- updated sections "Exceptions" and "Untyped Values" in the documentation
  to reflect recent changes
- configure changes for DG/UX (Eric Raskin)
- added -bbigtoc option for AIX (Markus Pohlmann)
- fixes for gcc 2.7.2
- restructured demo directory
- fixed memory leak in StaticServerRequest (Steffen Hansen)
- reworked array forany templates to be CORBA compliant
- environment variable MICORC can be set to the name of the config
  file; -ORBConfFile option overrides $MICORC
- changed event daemon to only pull when there are connected push
  consumers or pulling pull consumers
- made event daemon more robust with respect to pull/push supplier/consumer
  crashes (TANAKA Shinya)
- fixes for IRIX 6.5 (Kevin Schmeichel)
- added imr option "locate" (J. Tremblay)
- made <<= operators return void as per CORBA spec
- fixed bug in sequence<double> non-copying any extraction operator
- fixed bug in Context::get_values(): scope can be NULL
- use idl compiler to generate enum TCKind
- added missing <<=, >>= operators and _tc_* constants for system exceptions
- added missing Any::operator<<= (const Exception &)
- added missing non-copying versions of some <<= operators
- added missing builtin <<=, >>= operators for Any_var
- added ostream << operator for String_var
- changes for SSLeay 0.9
- fixed bug in FLtk dispatcher (Jacques Tremblay)
- fixes for Sun CC (Stephen Gallimore)
- fixed bug in BOAImpl::has_object() (Christophe Brethes)
- changed exception handling support to be CORBA compliant (Wil Evers)
- started to implement DynValue (still incomplete)
- improved oneway performance over IIOP by 100%
- moved TransportPrefPolicy to module MICOPolicy
- added BiDirPolicy
- added workarounds for VC++ namespace problems (Rudolf Janz)
- added configure option --enable-corba2-1 to make MICO compliant
  to the CORBA 2.1 standard
- Interface Repository:
  * when checking for duplicate repository IDs, the complete IR has
    to be searched
  * some more error checking for invalid parameters
  * lookup et al searched in the wrong direction (!)
  * fixed bug in IR, which caused a "duplicate member error" when
    feeding unions like:
      union U switch (T1) {
      case L1:
      case L2: sequence<T2> x;
      };
- IDL Compiler:
  * added new option --gen-included-defs to generate code explicitly for
    #included definitions
  * added new option --gen-full-dispatcher which will add dispatching code
    in the skeleton of an interfaces for all inherited operations and
    attributes
  * added new option --codegen-midl to generate Microsoft MIDL out
    of a CORBA IDL specification (Massimo Di Giorgio)
  * removed backend for IDL to C mapping. The following options are
    no longer available: --codegen-c, --no-codegen-c, --h-suffix
  * many C++ mapping bug fixes (OpenGroup)
  * added missing support for coercing unsigned long long to other basic types
  * changed TypeCode::equal() to follow recursions if remove_aliases==TRUE
    to prevent idl compiler from generating duplicate sequence marshallers
    as in
      struct S1 { sequence<S1> s; };
      struct S2 { sequence<S1> s; };
    where sequence<S1> marshaller was generated twice.
  * the skeleton code does no longer automatically free the old value of
    a variable length inout param (string, wstring, (abstract) interface,
    valuetype, valuebox) if the user replaces the value; that is the
    user has to free the old value if he wants to replace it. This is
    the way the CORBA spec wants it. REQUIRES CHANGES IN USER CODE.
  * fixed memory leaks in non-copying Any extraction operators: ownership of
    the extracted value is maintained by the Any and user must not delete it.
    This affects the non-copying extraction operators for: string, wstring,
    (abstract) interface, valuetype, valuebox, struct, union, exception,
    sequence, array. REQUIRES CHANGES IN USER CODE.
  * generate more efficient skeleton code for variable length out parameters
    and return values.
  * generate more efficient method dispatchers for interfaces with
    lots of methods.
  * generate more efficient marshalling code for sequences and arrays
    of base types.
  * new option --config to print some important MICO configuration infos.
  * fixed memory leak in generated SII demarshallers for (abstract) interfaces
  * cleaned up VC++ workarounds
  * "export" is now a C++ keyword

version 2.2.6

- Objects by Value
- added some OBV demos (demo/obv)
- some C++ mapping fixes
- fixed bug in POA wrt objects without any profiles (Jacques Tremblay)
- added doc about persistent POAs and reference-counted servants

version 2.2.5

- added message level interceptors; see demo/interceptor for an example
- added TransportPrefPolicy to let the user control which transport mechanism
  should be used to communicate with an object that supports multiple
  transport mechanisms (like IIOP, SSL/IOP, ...)
- changed event service to use SSI instead of DSI
- use the CORBA 2.2 way of encoding the default case label of a union typecode
- raise appropriate exceptions when trying to do nonlocal operations on
  locality constrained objects
- added FLtk dispatcher (Jacques Tremblay)
- implemented Interoperable Naming Service. Rewrote Naming Service
  to use the POA
- added support for LynxOS in configure.in (Hans-Joachim Baader)
- made configure recognise OpenNT C++ compiler
- new configure option --enable-compiled-headers to make the C++ compiler
  precompile header files to speed up compilation (currently only supported
  for SGI C++ 2.7.1)
- Added improved memory leak checker for Linux/x86
- made ORB::get_iface(), ORB::get_impl(), ORB::is_a() throw exceptions
- reimplemented FixedBase::compute_params() to be more robust
- changed TypeCode::create_*_tc() to not copy the element types
- changes for CORBA 2.3:
  * started to implement GIOP 1.2
  * updated interface repository
- win32 changes:
  * workarounds for VC++ bugs (Rudolf Janz)
  * ported naming, event, and trading service (Rudolf Janz)
  * fixed windows related problem in sequence.h (Rudolf Janz)
  * IMPORTANT: read README-WIN32 for important news
- bug fixes:
  * fixed memory leak in miniSTL vector (reported by Oliver Mangold)
  * fixed typo in MICO::UniCodesetConv::decode() (Robert Switzer)
  * SII called ClientInterceptor::after_unmarshal instead of
    ClientInterceptor::finish_request
  * renamed _T to _MICO_T due to problems with FreeBSD
  * forward disconnect_*() calls to consumers/suppliers in event channel
    proxies (reported by Christophe Rene)
  * fixes for SGI C++ Compiler 7.2.1 (Marc Stuessel)
  * also list services in list_initial_services() that register on demand
  * notify callbacks when dispatcher moves events to a new dispatcher (bug
    reported by Leif Jakobsmeier)
  * install CORBA-SMALL.h
  * made auxdir/qtmico.cc and tools/ir-browser/dii.cc compile again
- POA:
  * speedup for some common use cases
  * changed Active Object Map to handle large numbers of objects
    more efficiently
  * fixed _get_interface
  * updated ServantManagers to more closely follow the specs. The
    ServantManager skeletons don't derive from CORBA::Object any
    more
  * updates for CORBA 2.3 (RefCountServantBase et al.)
  * upon shutdown, the POAManager now signals running services a
    SIGTERM and waits for them to terminate (giving them a chance
    to save their state)
- IDL compiler:
  * if an object has an empty repo id (like objects generated by the
    interoperable naming service extension) always query the server
    for narrow (i.e., behave as if --query-server-for-narrow was
    specified if the repo id is empty)

version 2.2.4

- added CORBA::Bounds exception and made the DII use it
- removed octet, char, wchar, and boolean wrapper classes
- an invocation on a colocated POA-based object now decays to a
  direct procedure call
- made minstl's set and map use a simplified and faster vector template
- use idl compiler to translate ioptypes.idl and ssliop.idl
- set the completion status of system exceptions to MAYBE or YES instead
  of NO where appropriate
- optimized micod by using GIOP location forwarding, so that using micod
  no longer introduces a performance drawback. This relies on two client
  side GIOP features some CORBA implementations do not support although
  prescribed by the CORBA specification: 1) resending of outstanding
  invocations when CloseConnection is received and 2) fallback to original
  unforwarded object reference when connection to forwarded location
  fails. Therefore this feature must be explicitely enabled by giving
  micod the --forward command line option.
- renamed "_not_existent" to "_non_existent" as per CORBA spec
- changed BOA to forward all requests to mediator after deactivate_impl()
  or deactivate_obj() has been called
- changed IIOPServer to orderly shutdown (send a CloseConnection message on)
  all open connections upon ORB::shutdown()
- fixed client side location forward handling: must fall back to
  the original unforwarded IOR when the connection to the forwarded
  location breaks
- added Trading Service (Torben Weis)
- added "Success Stories" section on web page
- use of namespaces is now on by default (use --disable-namespace to avoid
  using namespaces)
- moved DynAny to libmico (libmicoaux is still there but is empty). also
  use idl compiler to generate DynAny declarations.
- replaced assertions by throwing appropriate exceptions in libmico.
  new configure option --disable-orb-excepts to turn this off (i.e.,
  revert to pre 2.2.4 behaviour)
- added configure options to selectively turn on services (Karel Gardas)
- Initialize POA when first referenced. Also solves bootstrapping problem
  with micod.
- new way to reduce compilation times and compiler memory usage by cutting
  down the code included by CORBA.h. There are two ways to go:
  1) before including CORBA.h #define MICO_CONF_NO_X to turn off feature
     X (where X can be IR, IMR, POA, INTERCEPT, DYNANY).
  2) before including CORBA-SMALL.h #define MICO_CONF_X to turn on feature X
- changed implementation repository and related tools to store a tag
  along with each repository id. when bind()ing to an object with a
  specified tag micod will now only launch servers that implement objects
  with given tag and repoid. see demo/account2/account script for how to
  tell micod the tag.
  IMPORTANT NOTE: if an object has a non-empty tag you MUST tell micod the
  tag; otherwise bind()ing to the object will fail.
- updated property service; wrote propertyd demo (Leif Jakobsmeier)
- added simple IIOP firewall support for use with TIS plug-gw (see
  www.technosec.com for details) (Rudolf Schreiner)
- print better error message when IIOPServer::listen() fails (Stefan Wille)
- redo invocations when CloseConnection is received before the reply
  arrives to fix interoperability problems with ORBs that close idle
  connections automatically (reported by Jennifer Harris)
- add POA support in imr_impl.cc (Karel Gardas)
- initialize variables in GIOPCodec ctor before using them (Greg Banks)
- Added demo for random.org (Frank Schneider)
- Added iordump utility
- bug fixes:
  * when a client called a server and the server called back the client
    a client crash made the server crash as well. fixed this
  * fixed bug in StaticRequest::invoke() (invocation was sent twice
    after a forward)
  * fixed bug in IIOP code: GIOPConn::do_read() must not continue if
    the callback deleted the connection
  * fixed bug in TypeCode::equal(): must compare the element types of
    recursive sequenes, not only the recursion depth.
  * fixed bug in TCSeqObject::marshal() and TCSeqObject::demarshal()
  * fixed bug in GIOPInContext and GIOPOutContext, which caused memory
    being freed twice in some circumstances
  * fixed bugs in configure script (reported by Doug Anderson)
  * fixed bug in marshalling of recursive type codes
  * fixed bug in IIOP server side locate request processing which caused
    a server to hang forever whenever a locate request was received (reported
    by Nikolaj Logvino)
  * make sure OSNet::sock_init() is called before any socket related
    function is called (Chin Huang)
  * fixed prg target in auxdir/Makefile (reported by Mike Sample)
  * fixed BOA memory leak (reported by Chris Cannam)
  * Fixed bug in GTK config (Marc G. Fournier)
- Win32 changes:
  * more Win32 improvements and bug fixes (Rudolf Janz, Martin Sander)
  * lots of changes for Win32: most makefiles are in place now, micod
    and some services work now (Rudolf Janz)
  * MICO can now be compiled under Windows95
- changes for CORBA 2.3:
  * added new system exceptions
  * updated Policy support
  * updated TypeCode
  * updated support for idl type fixed<d,s>
  * added basic support for Objects By Value
  * replaced CORBA::Status by void
  * added a default value for the Id parameter of ORB_init() and BOA_init()
  * added replace(), release(), and get_buffer() methods to sequence templates
  * changed Any::from_fixed and Any::to_fixed to match the spec
  * renamed _narrow() to _downcast() for exceptions
- IDL compiler:
  * emit Any marshalling code for types in --pseudo interfaces
    (see ORB::create_policy for rationale).
  * fixed problem with POA ties inheriting from interfaces in a module
    (reported by Markus Pohlmann)
  * fixed bug in operation dispatcher of server skeleton (Gerd Aschemann)
  * fixed mapping of types in container types (structs and unions)
  * fixed #pragmas directly after an #include
  * added missing constructor for member initialization of
    exceptions (reported by Doug Anderson)
  * fixed c++ mapping for wchar IN parameters
  * the Static Invocation Interface (SII) is now being used by default.
    The SII makes the marshalling of parameters much faster. The old
    marshalling code that makes use of the DII can be activated via
    --use-dii. Support for Any and TypeCode must now be activated
    explicitly via options --any and --typecode.
  * made <<= and >>= operators use the SII marshallers
  * do not generate Any marshalling for --pseudo unless --any is on
  * new option --c++-skel that causes the idl compiler to emit
    code needed only by servers into a separate file <name>_skel.cc
  * reduced size of generated code:
    - moved client side exception handling code to mico_sii_throw()
    - emit server side try-catch code for system exceptions only once
      per interface instead of once per method
    - omit generation of StaticTypeInfo::copy() to avoid instantiation
      of copy constructors for the associated type

version 2.2.3

- added support for Persistent POAs; see demo/poa/account-3 for an example
- added new activation mode "poa" to micod to allow automated activation
  of servers with persistent POAs
- allow nested method invocations in POACurrent
- allow activation of persistent POA servers with `imr activate'
- fixed _this() in POA-based skeletons
- fixed idle() in SelectDispatcher
- fixed initialization bug when using a static libmico.
- Workaround for egcs 1.1 on Linux (Torben Weis)
- fixed bug in DynUnion when using Unions with implicit default
- fixed bug in Object::_is_equivalent()
- fixed bug in Buffer::dump() (Christophe Rene)
- IR: don't allow creation of an interface within an interface
  (Christophe Rene)
- IDL compiler:
  * fixed bug related to POA tie classes for interfaces in modules
  * don't give an error for unknown #pragma directives
  * reset #pragma prefix to nothing at the end of an #included file
  * added --no-poa-ties option

version 2.2.2

- fixed bug in BOA and micod related to unshared servers: newly created
  objects were not moved to a new server
- made SelectDispatcher signal-safe to fix a bug that sometimes crashed
  micod when a server crashed or terminated (reported by Torben Weis)
- changes for VC++ 6.0 (Travis Rein)
- fixed bug in property service (reported by Karel Gardas)
- made some refinements to Win32 install process
- added MFC demo under Win32 (see demo/mfc)
- fixed bug in IDL compiler related to aliases of arrays (reported by
  Christophe Rene)
- fixed bug in IDL compiler related to forward declarations of
  interfaces and re-opening of modules

version 2.2.1

- tried to fix problem with global InitInterceptors
- fixed imr activate to really activate the given implementation (reported
  by Torben Weis)
- fixed bug to make aborting a deferred DII invocation work (reported by
  Philippe Merle)
- fixes in PropertyService for compilers != gcc
- fixed bug in TypeCodeConst
- fixed bugs in mico-setup.* scripts
- added POA documentation (Frank)
- added property service (written by Leif Jacobsmeier)
- configure changes for emx (reported by Ralf Barkow)
- tried to fix Win32 problems in generated code (reported by Olivier Richaud)
- tried to work around IDL compiler crashes under Win32 (Martin Sander)
- reorganized make process under Win32
- fixes for --enable-final
- added demo/interop/{README,Makefile}, which were missing in 2.2.0
- fixes for namespaces
- fixes for egcs 1.1
- IDL compiler:
  * improved code generation for --c++-impl (Rick H. Wesson)
  * use correct file suffix with --hh-suffix (Robert Klemme)
  * bug fix for --query-server-for-narrow (Christophe Rene)
  * bug fix for mapping of arrays (Christophe Rene)
  * bug fix concerning forward declarations of interfaces (Robert Klemme)
  * accept preprocessor options -E and -M

version 2.2.0

- added JacORB interoperability demo (Thomas Fricke)
- cleaned up mico-* scripts (Robert Klemme)
- updated copyright headers in source files
- fixes for Win32 (Martin Sander)
- added operator* to VAR templates
- added Any::from_static_any() and Any::to_static_any(), which will be
  used to speed up <<= and >>= operators
- added POA demos (Frank).
- made configure check whether struct ctors, dtors, op= have to be
  explicitely specified to work around g++ bugs. Changed code generation
  to place #ifdefs around affected code.
- fixed bug in ORB::perform_work()
- fixed problems with static variables in inline methods (reported by
  Stefan Schaefer)
- implemented basic support for CORBA 2.2 DomainManager stuff
- implemented CORBA 2.2 service information stuff
- changed mico-c++, mico-shc++, mico-ld, and mico-shld scripts to work
  with compilers other than gcc
- fixed bug in bstring fix (Andrew Metcalfe)
- fixed memory leak in DataDecoder destructor (Andrew Metcalfe)
- fixed bug in ORB shutdown processing
- started to port MICO to IBM xlC
- Interface Repository bug fix related to wrong construction of
  multiple nested recursive structs/unions
- started to port MICO to HP aCC
- integrated CORBA 2.2 POA, Current, and Policy stuff (Frank)
- fixed problem with basic_string<>::c_str() (reported by Andrew Metcalfe)
- added CORBA 2.2 method Exception::_raise()
- fixed problem with oneway invocation buffering
- added missing #define's in CORBA.h for Win32
- IDL compiler:
  * allow re-opening of modules
  * added missing declaration "Exception *_ex" for !HAVE_EXCEPTIONS
  * declare union read accessor methods for base types, objects, and
    arrays as const
  * fixed wrong mapping of aliases to strings in operation signatures
    (reported by Leif Jacobsmeier)
  * fixed bugs in generation of wstring union accessor methods
  * instantiate _tc_* constants on demand to reduce memory footprint
  * fix bug in generation of constants when using namespaces
  * fixed problems with constants and _tc_* constants when modules
    are mapped to namespaces
  * removed some MICO specific operations from IR. The IDL compiler
    can now generate code from a foreign IR via --repo-id.
  * added new option --c++-impl which will generate some default
    C++ implementations for interfaces (donated by Stefan Westerfeld)
  * make sure that template_impl.h is only included after all generated
    code (there was a problem before if a generated .h file included
    another generated .h file)
  * bug fix for wrong bounds during evaluation of short consts
    (reported by Bert Bril)

version 2.1.1

- moved CORBA::NameValuePair implementation from auxdir/dynany_impl.cc
  to orb/dynany.cc due to problems with unresolved externals when
  using gcc 2.7.2
- changed the way the BOA matches target objects of invocations with
  objects in the active object map to allow adding new IOR profiles after
  the object has been created
- started to port MICO to the SUN C++ compiler 4.x (Andreas Schultz)
- tried to fix problem with *Wrapper classes on Sinix+gcc2.7.2 (reported
  by Klaus Thiele)
- generate .zip file distribution in admin/mkrelease
- separated out OS specific code into include/mico/os-*.h and orb/os-*.cc
- raise CORBA::MARSHAL when arguments and/or results cannot be decoded
- added ServerRequestBase::cancel()
- started to port MICO for the Visual-C++ compiler. See README-WIN32 for
  details (with a lot of help from Martin Sander)
- started to write an FAQ
- included GNU cpp in the distribution for use by the idl compiler and ird
- made configure check whether compiler supports const overloading of
  conversion operators and define the *_var conversion operators accordingly
- fixed bug in ServiceContextList handling (reported by Andrew Metcalfe)
- wrote StaticAny test (test/dii/static.cc)
- fixed bugs in decoder get_*s() methods
- changed SSL support to be compliant with revision 1.2-final of the security
  service specification (omg document orbos/98-01-14.pdf) with one exception
  for Visibroker compatibilty (see include/mico/ssliop.h for details)
- fixed type name clashes in orb/uni_*.{cc,h}
- ObjectAdapter::skeleton() can now return NIL if there is no skeleton for
  the object in question
- fixes for PowerMax OS (by Andrew Metcalfe)
- fixes for Cygnus CDK beta 19; updated installation instructions for beta 19
- fixed typos in CDR put_*s() and get_*s() methods (reported by
  Andrew Metcalfe)
- fixed horrible bug in DataDecoder::encaps_begin() (reported by FP)
- IDL compiler bug fixes:
  * fixed some problems with aliases of arrays and added some
    missing functions for array templates (reported by Christophe Rene)
  * proper order of generated code for nested declarations
    (found by Kristian Kvilekval)
  * print proper error message for wrong const expressions
    (reported by Christophe Rene)
  * generate proper code for typedef of wstring (reported
    by Rick H. Wesson)
  * fixed some bugs related to --feed-included-defs and forward
    declarations (pointed out by Christophe Rene)
  * initialization of const decls defined in modules (found by
    Andrew Metcalfe)
  * print error and exit when cpp cannot be executed
  * insert space between two closing brackets of nested sequence templates
    (reported by Christophe Rene)
- added CORBA 2.2 methods to ServerRequest (FP)
- added configure option --disable-static (FP)
- new option --pseudo for the IDL compiler. If used, only pseudo
  stubs and skeletons are generated. Needed for the upcoming POA.
  (provided by Frank Pilhofer)

version 2.1.0

- when --relative-paths is specified to the IDL compiler emit #include
  statements relative to paths specified by -I options
- added relationship service and demo written by Karel Gardas
- added Interceptor::ConnInterceptor that allows for connection monitoring
  on server side; see demo/interceptor for an example
- avoid use of *::clear() on STL containers, since the old HP-STL in
  gcc 2.7.2 doesnt support it
- mostly removed BOA dependencies from DSI/SSI (patches provided by FP)
- new option -ORBNoCodeSets to not add code set information to object
  references (may be needed when talking to not CORBA 2.1 compliant ORBs)
- new option -ORBConfFile to specify config file name (defaults to ~/.micorc)
- duplicate some objects in ServerRequest to make sure they are not
  deleted until interceptors are executed (by Greg Banks)
- made erase (end()) work on MiniSTL data structures (bug reported by
  Andrew Vajoczki)
- implemented static invocation interface (SII) and static skeleton
  interface (SSI); see test/dii/siiclient.cc and test/dii/siiserver.cc
  for an example
- added code set converters for UCS-4, UTF-7, UTF-8, UTF-16, ISO-8859-*,
  various IBM code pages, ASCII, EBCDIC, KOI8-R, Mac, Windows, HTML
  (donated by Marcus Mueller)
- fixed HP-UX select() hangs (by Greg Banks)
- fixed bug in tools/ir-browser/Makefile (reported by Bruno Thomas)
- added basic support for code set conversion as per 2.2 spec
- added missing ComponentDecoder destructor
- fixes for IRIX CC (reported by Christoph Best)
- bugfix in interface repository (hinted by Christophe Rene)
- adopted BOA to new micod
- redesigned and reimplemented part of micod:
  * removed object adapter (esp. BOA) dependencies
  * provide a flexible framework for implementing arbitrary activation policies
  * fixed all design problems regarding object migration
- added configure option --enable-namespace to turn on namespace support
  (off by default, because current egcs releases have namespaces, but
  they are broken in subtle ways).
- bugfix in Tcl dispatcher (by FP)
- more Visibroker/SSL interoperability fixes
- changed IDL compiler in order to initialize non-global const
  declarations in the implementation file
- some changes to the IDL compiler for 2.2 compliance
  * added _out types
  * added in(), out() and inout() methods for _var types
  * C++ keywords are prefixed by "_cxx_"
- added IDL compiler option --relative-paths to generate relative
  paths for #include directives for C++ mapping
- added IDL compiler option --feed-included-defs for feeding
  #include'd definitions into IR. Default is not to feed them
- IDL compiler bug fixes:
  * treat TypeCode as a scoped name and not as a IDL keyword
    (reported by Rick H. Wesson)
  * give verbose error message if there is no value for an
    explicit default member of a union (reported by R. Switzer)
  * give verbose error message for mal-formed #pragma directives
    (reported by Rick H. Wesson)
  * bug fix for unmarshalling of explicit default union members
    (reported by Frank Pilhofer)
  * bug fix related to stub generation for exceptions declared
    on global scope (reported by Daniel Veillard)
  * print proper error message for wrong const expressions
    (reported by Christophe Rene)
  * don't allow re-opening of interfaces
    (reported by Christophe Rene)

version 2.0.8

- support for Principal::get_property("peer-address")
- fixed build problems on AIX
- fix for gcc 2.7.2 and other dumb compilers: moved part of
  dynany_impl.cc to orb/dynany.cc. otherwise you get unresolved
  symbols when linking binaries without libmicoaux
- more -Wall fixes
- added configure option --enable-split

version 2.0.7

- avoid assert() expressions with side effects; -DNDEBUG dows now work
- fixes for -Wall
- more elaborate check for working namespaces in configure
- added input queue to GIOPConn
- fixed typo in stream_impl.cc
- added #define MICO_BIN_VERSION suitable for use with /lib/cpp directives
- fixed problems with imr activate
- Object::_non_existent() now returns TRUE if the server cannot be contacted
  instead of dumping core
- fixed bugs in Any::except_get_end() and Any::struct_get_end()
  (reported by Frank Pilhofer)
- fixed interoperability problems with VisiBroker when using SSL
- preserve implicit default union case during extraction from Any
- fixed bug in xwcscmp()
- fixed some problems with --disable-except
- fixed bug in wide string output
- fixed a bug in handling of unknown IOR profiles
- fixed bug in BOA::dispose() (dug out by Torben Weis)
- changes for IR browser to work with JavaCUP 0.10g
- don't generate marshalling code for type sequence<Object>
- fixed bug in IDL compiler related to nested recursive unions
- applied PowerMax patches (provided by Andrew Metcalfe)
- fixed a bug in Principal::get_property (reported by Andrew Metcalfe)
- fixed bug in interceptor code (reported by Andrew Metcalfe)
- fixes in Tcl dispatcher for Tcl 8
- moved DynAny stuff to CORBA module (as per CORBA 2.2 spec)
- added Principal::set_peer_info()
- fixed bug in DynAny that occured when using aliases of base types
  (reported by Philippe Merle)
- removed debug output in const.cc
- fixed problem with ministl/function.h (patches by Owen Taylor)
- fixes for GTK 1.0.0 (patches by Owen Taylor)
- fixed some floating point problems

version 2.0.6

- incorporated most of the changes for SGI CC (patches provided by
  Christoph Best)
- incorporated most of the changes for PowerMax OS (patches provided by
  Andrew Metcalfe)
- added support for CORBA 2.2 types to IDL compiler and interface
  repository (see test/idl/27)
- made ORB::cancel() work
- reimplemented BOAObjectRestorer using interceptors
- added support for Interceptors as per OMG document orbos/98-01-08.pdf
  (realtime CORBA joint submission), see demo/interceptor and demo/ssl
  for examples
- fixed AC_CHECK_SOCKET_SIZE_T for glibc (patch provided by Martin Baulig)
- DynAny: added support for CORBA 2.2 types; speed and size optimizations
- added CORBA 2.2 support for GIOP 1.1 and IIOP 1.1
- moved the dispatchers into separate libs (i.e., libmicox, libmicoqt,
  libmicogtk, libmicotcl)
- changed semantics of BOA methods for CORBA 2.2 compliance:
  * impl_is_ready() and obj_is_ready() do not block anymore, you have to
    call orb->run() to start processing events
  * deactivate_impl() and deactivate_obj() do not stop processing
    events anymore, you have to use orb->shutdown() to make orb->run() return
  THIS REQUIRES CHANGES IN USER CODE, see examples and documentation for
  details.
- added CORBA 2.2 ORB methods work_pending(), perform_work(), run(),
  and shutdown()
- reinstall signal handler after each handled signal in
  UnixProcess::signal_handler()
- added CORBA 2.2 ORB support for long long, unsigned long long,
  long double, wchar, wstring, fixed
- added support for SSL (interoperates with Visigenic's IIOP over SSL)
  using SSLeay 0.8, see demo/ssl for an example
- added list_properties() and get_property() methods to CORBA::Principal
- calling get_principal() with a NIL environment pointer from within a
  method implementation does now work
- install all demos, not only the ones that can be compiled with current
  configuration
- added CORBA-c.cc to orb_all.cc
- fixed byteordering bugs in iop.cc
- do not link in both libtermcap and libncurses

version 2.0.5

- fixes for --enable-final (thanks to Dick Porter)
- fixed installation bug that occured when not specifying --exec-prefix
  to configure
- added include/mico/stream.idl, which was missing in the 2.0.4 release

version 2.0.4

- added stream service (designed and implemented by Christian Becker)
- preliminary support for namespaces (untested, might work with KAI C++)
- integrated most of the changes for KAI C++ (provided by Ben Eng)
- dont output dependencies for nonexisting files in mkdepend
- fixed a bug in BOAServer::invoke()
- added preliminary C language mapping (provided by Elliot Lee). see
  demo/corba-c for an example. updated docs and man pages for new idl
  compiler command line options.
- added missing _duplicate()s in ObjectRecord::impl(...) and
  ObjectRecord::iface(...)
- added bind() method to BOAObjectRestorer that enables the server to
  generate objects on demand (i.e., when a bind() for a non-existing object
  is done on the server). see demo/account2 for an example.
- repoid's in the implementation repository can now contain *, ?, and []
  wildcards (just like in a shell), e.g. a server implementing all kinds
  of objects can be registered with repoid IDL:*:1.0. this is useful in
  conjunction with the above change.
- fixed a bug in micod related to running persistent servers multiple times
- added clear() to ministl's set, map, vector, and list
- print more info for uncaught user exceptions
- IDL compiler:
  * #include directives in generated code now use correct suffix
  * --version will exit IDL compiler
  * files are always generated in working directory
- fixed bugs in install targets in auxdir/Makefile and coss/Makefile
- some performance optimizations (about 30% faster according to demo/bench)
- do not turn inet:localhost:* into inet:<some local address>:*
- made configure check for JDK 1.1
- changes in bstring.h for -frepo
- updated docs
- bugfix in DynStruct::from_any() (provided by Philippe Merle)
- wrote a Tcl dispatcher
- changed BOA::create() and thus DynamicImplementation::_create_ref()
  to not consume InterfaceDef and ImplementationDef arguments 
- made event service and event service demo compile without exceptions
- re-wrote tools/ir-browser for JDK 1.1.5
- added interoperability test for JDK 1.2 beta 2.
  see mico/demo/interop/jdk/README for details.
- changed configure to figure out the type of the size argument to socket
  calls
- added a missing delete in QT dispatcher
- fixed bugs in map::insert() and set::insert():
  * lookup() used a == b instead of !_comp(a,b) && !_comp(b,a)
  * the boolean returned from insert() was inversed
- added events in demo/Makefile
- fixes for -Wall in ministl/list.h
- define INADDR_LOOPBACK in address.cc if its not in the system headers
- do not include math.h in util.cc on SGI due to conflicts for initstate()

version 2.0.3

- added simple is_a() cache
- changed ln -fs into ln -f -s
- fixed some bugs in the event service
- made configure fail if a working cpp cannot be found
- fixed bug in install-sh

version 2.0.2

- rewrote part of the Event Service and implemented pull
- added callback mechanism to DII
- bug fix for prototype of Any insertion operator for enums
- added event service (only untyped push so far) written by Kai-Uwe Sattler
- changed DSI to be able to defer completion of requests
- added some notes about Win32 in INSTALL and doc.tex
- fixes for Cygnus CDK
- added new IDL compiler option --query-server-for-narrow, which
  obsoletes --query-ir-for-narrow (still left in but gives a warning)
- use the server instead of the IR for _narrow().
- fixed bug in IDL compiler related to array union members
- fixed Ministl to work with egcs
- added GTK support
- fixed a bug with InterfaceDef::is_a( Object )
- IDL compiler now handles forward declarations which are defined
  in #included files.
- fixed bug in IDL compiler related to const declarations

version 2.0.1

- added a missing return TRUE in Naming_impl.cc
- #pragma on SGI now properly recognized
- renamed aux to auxdir due to problems with Windows aux device
- changes for win32+cygnus cdk

version 2.0.0

- replaced CORBA::* by MICO_* in array.h
- solved some remaining problems with T* conversion operators in var.h
- changes for *BSD in configure
- again fixed a bug in ORB_instance()
- fixed problems with -frepo
- prevent nsd from binding to itself
- added make install-cd
- do not link in any libraries when creating shared libs in mico-shld.def
- made configure check for exceptions in shared libraries
- build libmicoaux and libmicocoss as shared libs if exceptions in shared
  libs work
- added demo/redlich and demo/siegel
- fixes for egcs

version 0.9b6

- fixed bugs in mico-setup.* scripts
- changed ministl to use !cmp(a,b) && !cmp(b,a) instead of a==b
- changed configure to recognise egcs (untested)
- only link in needed libs in mico-ld
- catch broken linux gcc's in configure
- changed licensing policy for idl compiler output
- fixed byte ordering bug that showed up when running the BOA daemon on a
  machine with byte order differing from client or server machine
- beefed up the graphical interface repository browser
- IDL compiler now generates _this() member functions
- major re-work of the documentation
- fixed bugs in 'make diffs'
- changes in demo/ to be able to compile the demos outside of the MICO
  build dir; make install now installs the demos under doc/mico/examples
- do not use the -fPIC compiled object files for building static libs,
  since specifying -fhandle-exceptions and -fPIC together produces buggy
  code
- fixed a bug in micod: bind() hung forever if reactivating a server
  and binding to a transient object
- fixed a serious bug in ORB_instance()
- fixed a bug in the lookup of scoped names in the IR
- added demo/activate
- added diffs (in README.SIEGEL) to make the example from Siegel's CORBA
  book work with MICO
- added demo/interop
- fixed a bug in Principal::encode()

version 0.9b5

- added extensive error checking in idl compiler
- fixed scoping bugs in the idl compiler
- added --h-suffix and --c-suffix options to the idl compiler
- fixed gmake install
- added shellscripts mico-setup.sh and mico-setup.csh scripts that
  set up paths for using mico (in case it is not installed in the standard
  paths)
- added ctor, dtor, op= for SomeRecStruct in anytest.cc to force instantiation
  of SequenceIndTmpl methods

version 0.9b4

- fixed DynAny bugs and added DynAny test file provided by Philippe Merle
- build static and shared libmico
- _narrow() does now handle the case where base and derived class are
  in separate .idl files
- new IDL compiler option --query-ir-for-narrow, see test/idl/26/README for
  details
- implemented #pragma support
- support for recursive sequences
- changes to make sequences of arrays work
- some cleanups for -Wall
- (hopefully) fixed that transport.cc assertion
- implemented Object::_hash()
- implemented obsolete TypeCode parameter interface
- improved error handling all over the place
- made the various IOR profiles and decoders reusable by not hardcoding
  the profile id into them
- added code for handling unknown IOR profiles
- check for IEEE compliant floating point types and only use the
  floating point converters if non IEEE compliant floating point types are
  detected
- some speedups for Buffer, IIOPServer, IIOPProxy

version 0.9b3

- made TypeCode::member_label() return a copy of the Any and changed all the
  places where it was used (only dynany_impl.cc).
- fixed memory leaks in typecode.cc and dynany_impl.cc
- fixed HP-UX idl compiler trouble
- made Any::replace(tc, 0) work
- fixed the repository id for pk_Object in ir_impl.cc
- changed String_var to not replace (char *)0 by ""
- fixes for systems without exception support
- misc changes for -frepo
- added omg.org prefix for exception repoid's
- fixes for 64 bit systems
- updated manual pages

version 0.9b2

- fixed bugs in the BOA to enable unshared servers to invoke methods on
  on objects after deactivate_obj() was called on them.
- updated docs and demo/account3 for the above change.
- micod is now able to save and restore the contents of the implementation
  repository (option --db <file> turns this on).
- changed the way --no-exceptions is handled by the idl compiler: code for
  exception classes is still generated but throwing them will result in
  an error message and program abort.
- added manual pages for nsadmin and nsd.

version 0.9b1

- added "activate" subcommand to imr to force activation of an implementation
  (needed for servers that register with the naming service).
- objects are now restored on demand (i.e., when invoked). before 0.9b1
  all objects were restored at server startup.
- bind() can now distinguish between objects of the same type by passing
  it the BOA::ReferenceData of the requested object; see demo/account2 for
  an example.
- made Object::_get_interface() and Object::_is_a() work.
- changed Object::_save_object() to return a Boolean. transient objects
  should not implement this method, persistent object should make it return
  TRUE. This requires changes in user code.
- added support for DynAny; demo/dynany contains an example how to use it.
- added naming service + admin tool (donated by Kai-Uwe Sattler); demo/naming
  contains an example how to use it.
- wrote a graphical interface repository browser; see tools/ir-browser.
- added support for contexts.
- added an example (demo/account4) for object migration.
- mostly finished the interface repository.
- fixed problems in the generated _narrow() code.
- changed the way #include<foo.idl> is handled by the idl compiler:
  no code is generated for included files, instead foo.h is included. that
  means you have to run all #included files through the idl compiler by hand.
  the advantage is that you can now build libraries of CORBA objects. 
- lots of bugfixes and minor changes.
- documentation updates. 

version 0.8b1:

- lots of bug fixes
- support for oneway methods
- support for arrays
- support for unions
- support for const expressions
- support for using MICO in X11 applications (Xt and preliminary
  support for Qt), see demo/x11 and demo/qtmico for examples
- the BOA can now load CORBA objects into a client at runtime using
  loadable modules, giving you maximum performance while still allowing
  for runtime binding, see demo/shlib for an example
- support for installing a user defined identifier (BOA::ReferenceData)
  in object implementations, see demo/account2 for an example
- MICO provides now four wrapper scripts mico-c++/mico-ld and
  mico-shc++/mico-shld for compiling/linking mico applications and
  loadable modules, respectively
- lots of reorganizations to reduce the size of the library and
  the generated binaries
- speedups
- made --enable-repo work (needed on HP-UX)
- shared libs now work on HP-UX
- documentation updates
- docs are now available as
  * ps,
  * ps in booklet format,
  * archive of html pages
- updated licensing conditions: libs and generated code is now covered
  by LGPL, everthing else by the GPL
- added unshared-server example, see demo/account3

version 0.7b1:

- lots of bug fixes
- support for exceptions
- support for IDL type Object
- major speedup for local communication
- support for shared libraries
- works now on 64 bit hardware (e.g., DEC alpha)
- documentation updates
- implemented some missing functionality:
  * ORB methods for sending multiple requests
  * ORB::create_operation_list()
  * ServerRequest::op_def()

