On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM minfrin <minf...@apache.org> wrote:
> Apache Portable Runtime APR 1.7.6 Released > > The Apache Software Foundation and the Apache Portable Runtime > Project are proud to announce the General Availability of version > 1.7.6 of the Apache Portable Runtime library (APR). > > For detailed changes in this maintenance release, see; > > https://www.apache.org/dist/apr/CHANGES-APR-1.7 > https://www.apache.org/dist/apr/CHANGES-APR-UTIL-1.6 > https://www.apache.org/dist/apr/CHANGES-APR-ICONV-1.2 > > APR, APR-util and APR-iconv are available for download from: > > https://apr.apache.org/download.cgi > > In APR 1.7.0 and later, there are a number of > specific changes in how APR is deployed which may be disruptive > to existing build strategies: > > - The typical cross-process locking stragegy now defaults to > a pthreads lock which will not leak on abnormal process termination, > as opposed to the earlier sysv semaphore locking strategy. > This should result in fewer orphaned locks in misbehaving > applications. > > - Netware users should be aware that APR mis-defined the entity > representing an "os mutex", and it was missing a level of > indirection. The new definition should allow the use of the > apr_os_proc_mutex_get/_put API's on the Netware platform but > requires a rebuild against the APR 1.7.0 or later library. > > 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. We list all known projects using APR > at https://apr.apache.org/projects.html - so please let us know > if you find our libraries useful in your own projects Hi, It seems like the https://downloads.apache.org/apr/CHANGES-APR-1.7 page didn't update to include 1.7.6 changes, but the one in the repository has them documented. Shouldn't the website's version be updated as well? -- Timofei Zhakov
