[omniORB] ANN: omniORB 4.0.0 and omniORBpy 2.0 release candidates

[Duncan Grisby]

I am pleased to announce the release candidates of omniORB 4.0.0 and
omniORBpy 2.0.

The release candidates contain minor bug fixes and new features since
the beta 2 releases.

Highlights of the new features since omniORB 3.0 and omniORBpy 1:

 - Updated to CORBA 2.6.
 - Support for GIOP 1.1 and 1.2.
 - Wide string and codeset negotiation.
 - Unix domain and SSL transports.
 - Bidirectional GIOP.
 - Flexible thread pool mode.
 - PortableServer::Current.
 - Interceptors.
 - Fixed point.
 - Complete freeing of all heap allocations.
 - Efficient in-process calls between C++ and Python.
 - Python / C++ object reference translation API.
 - New comprehensive configuration mechanism.
 - Commercial support. See http://www.omniorb-support.com/

Release notes are available from

  http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=110442

and

  http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=110443


You can download the releases themselves via the release notes pages,
or from

  http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=51138


Please try out the release candidates and report any problems you
encounter to the omniORB mailing list. The intention is to make a full
release in a week or so.

Enjoy,

Duncan.

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