Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!caen!ox.com!emv From: ken@gvax.cs.cornell.edu (Ken Birman) Newsgroups: comp.archives Subject: [comp.sys.isis] ISIS 3.0 (and V2.2) status reports Message-ID: <1991Jan6.205100.11743@ox.com> Date: 6 Jan 91 20:51:00 GMT References: <50340@cornell.UUCP> Sender: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti) Reply-To: ken@cs.cornell.edu (Ken Birman) Followup-To: comp.sys.isis Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY Lines: 56 Approved: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti) X-Original-Newsgroups: comp.sys.isis Archive-name: comp.sys.isis/sites/cu-arpa.cs.cornell.edu/1991-01-05 Archive-directory: cu-arpa.cs.cornell.edu:/pub/comp.sys.isis/ [128.84.254.3] Original-posting-by: ken@gvax.cs.cornell.edu (Ken Birman) Original-subject: ISIS 3.0 (and V2.2) status reports Reposted-by: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti) Based on feedback we have received to date, it appears that ISIS V2.1 has turned out to be very solid, modulo some "fringe" problems such as gbcasts to BYPASS-mode groups, a few memory leaks in the meta table manager, and the isis_remote problem mentioned in the previous posting. If you have encountered other sorts of problems, please let us know: email to isis-bugs@cs.cornell.edu is always answered promptly, and we have yet to see a bug we couldn't fix in a few days. A few definitions: V2.2: next free public release from Cornell. Planned for mid-summer 1991 or later. V3.0: forthcoming commercial release from ISIS Dist. Sys. Inc. originally planned for now, currently planned for the end January or early February. ---- V3.0 news ---- ISIS V3.0 is still coming along smoothly. I am still working on and testing several parts of the system (notably the pg_client BYPASS protocol) but the software is otherwise looking good. The network resource manager is also running now. We would have liked to see V3.0 out sooner, but it doesn't look like it will be very much longer now. We regret any inconvenience this has caused. ---- V2.2 news ---- V2.2 will be available from Cornell sometime next summer. It won't have any of the system enhancements that the company has been working on, but it will include some of the user-supplied ports I have heard about (DYNIX, perhaps 3b2, etc). If you have been applying the posted bug fixes and port descriptions to your V2.1 release, you are running on V2.2 now. If you are confused by the plan to have V3.0 out before V2.2, it may help to keep in mind that V3.0 is coming out from a commercial effort and is our state of the art system, with all the performance enhancements and new tools we've been working on for some time now. V2.2 is really just V2.1 with a few bug fixes, and because ISIS Distributed Systems is starting to handle all of this stuff, the group at Cornell no longer plans to be quite so oriented towards new releases. However, we do want to keep a high quality public release out there in source form. Within the next week or two I will post a comprehensive list of differences between V3.0 and V2.1. Bug fixes have been posted to this newsgroup all along; check the comp.sys.isis archives on cu-arpa.cs.cornell.edu (anonymous FTP in binary mode) if you need to scan old postings.