Re: [Caml-list] [ANN] Ocamlnet-3.3.1

[Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de>]

Update:

So, with the help of users, three bugs were quickly discovered, and are
now fixed in ocamlnet-3.3.3 (same URL).

Gerd

Am Freitag, den 10.06.2011, 21:14 +0200 schrieb Gerd Stolpmann:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm quite proud to announce the availability of a new Ocamlnet version:
> Ocamlnet-3.3.1 adds a number of exciting new features, focusing on
> multicore and security.
> 
> In particular:
> 
> - Netmulticore is a working implementation of the multi-process
>   approach to get multicore capabilities with explicit shared
>   memory
> - GSS-API is an industry standard security framework. It is
>   accompanied with an implementation of SCRAM, and an authentication
>   module for SunRPC. This allows secure SunRPC, and covers
>   strong authentication, integrity, and confidentiality.
> - The HTTP client has learned TLS (SSL), i.e. "https" URLs work
>   now. There are a number of smaller improvements in this client:
>   One can now request compressed downloads. SOCKS proxies are
>   supported (in addition to web proxies).
> - The FTP client could be finished, finally. The FTP client
>   is accompanied by Ftp_fs, an incarnation of the protocol-
>   independent filesystem API stream_fs.
> - Uq_resolver provides infrastructure for plugging in name
>   resolvers. This module is now used everywhere in Ocamlnet.
>   (This work is not yet complete.)
> - Uq_lwt allows it to run Lwt programs with the Ocamlnet event
>   queue (experimental; thanks to the Lwt team for opening their
>   API)
> - Ocamlnet can be built without PCRE (configure option -disable-pcre).
>   In this case, Str is used instead. There might be interferences
>   between threads in multi-threaded programs, though.
> - Adding access to the secure random number generator provided by the
>   OS
> - Ocamlnet describes itself now as "an enhanced system platform library 
>   for Ocaml", and no longer as a random collection of protocol
>   interpreters. Key applications are now the web, client/server 
>   programs, and compute jobs. Plus all the little things you need
>   in a network-aware system environment.
> 
> Special thanks goes to Mylife who sponsored the HTTPS extension.
> 
> The project page with all relevant links (manual, download, etc):
> 
> http://projects.camlcity.org/projects/ocamlnet.html
> 
> GODI for Ocaml-3.12 is already updated. If you also need PXP, the XML
> parser, be sure you update to version 1.2.2 (for a trivial fix).
> 
> Gerd
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