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List:       apache-announce
Subject:    [Announce] APR / APR-util 1.2.2 Released
From:       "William A. Rowe, Jr." <wrowe () apache ! org>
Date:       2005-10-13 5:23:33
Message-ID: 434DEF55.2060107 () apache ! org
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                  Apache Portable Runtime 1.2.2 Released

    The Apache Software Foundation and the Apache Portable Runtime
    Project are proud to announce the General Availability of
    version 1.2.2 of the Apache Portable Runtime, APR.

    APR is available for download from:

       http://apr.apache.org/download.cgi

    This version of APR is principally a bug fix release.

    The mission of the Apache Portable Runtime Project is to create
    and maintain software libraries that provide a predictable and
    consistent interface to underlying platform-specific
    implementations. The primary goal is to provide an API to
    which software developers may code and be assured of predictable
    if not identical behavior regardless of the platform on which
    their software is built, relieving them of the need to code
    special-case conditions to work around or take advantage of
    platform-specific deficiencies or features.

    APR and its companion libraries are implemented entirely in C
    and provide a common programming interface across a wide variety
    of operating system platforms without sacrificing performance.
    Currently supported platforms include:

       * UNIX
       * Windows
       * Netware
       * Mac OS X
       * OS/2
       * BeOS

    To give a brief overview, the primary core subsystems of APR 1.2
    include the following:

       * Atomic operations
       * Dynamic Shared Object loading
       * File I/O
       * Locks (mutexes, condition variables, etc)
       * Memory management (high performance allocators)
       * Memory-mapped files
       * Multicast Sockets
       * Network I/O
       * Shared memory
       * Thread and Process management
       * Various data structures (tables, hashes, priority queues, etc)

    For a more complete list, please refer to the following URLs:

       http://apr.apache.org/docs/apr/modules.html
       http://apr.apache.org/docs/apr-util/modules.html

    Users of APR 0.9 should be aware that migrating to the APR 1.x
    programming interfaces may require some adjustments; APR 1.x is
    not binary compatible with earlier APR 0.9 releases.  Users of
    APR 1.x can expect consistent interfaces and binary compatibility
    through the entire APR 1.x release cycle, as defined in our
    versioning rules:

        http://apr.apache.org/versioning.html

    APR is already used extensively by the Apache HTTP Server
    version 2.0 and the Subversion revision control system, to
    name but a few.  We list all known projects using APR at
    http://apr.apache.org/projects.html -- so please let us know
    if you find our libraries useful in your own projects!

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