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!
