Portico v2.0.1

Portico v2.0.1 is the first maintenance release for the major 2.0.x stream. It contains a number of useful bugfixes, especially for the C++ interface. Many of these fixes were submitted by members of the Portico community - this particular release would not be possible without them.

The full Change Log is reproduced below.

Notes

• note Packaged JRE Updates to Java 8u20
• note Portico support for Java 6 and earlier officially deprecated as Java 6 has reached its official EOL. Java 6 support beyond v2.1 not guaranteed

Improvements

• improve Standard development environment and packaged JRE has been updated to Java 8u20 on all platforms. (PORT-149)
• improve Patch to allow the setting of java system properties from within the C++ interface. (#30 - JeanPhilippeLebel)
• improve Logging output from the 1516e interface will now be send to a file if the PORTICO_REDIRECT environment variable is set. (#39 - raymondfrancis)

Bug Fixes

• bugfix Reduced warnings and other compilation problems for c++ interface on Ubuntu LTS releases (PORT-17)
• bugfix Portico c++ interface and unit tests now compile and complete successfully on Mac OS X Mavericks (10.9). (PORT-146)
• bugfix Generated java code now backwards compatible to Java 6 (PORT-139)
• bugfix Fixed “Insufficient data” exceptions in 1516e C++ encoding helpers (#34 - lumixen)
• bugfix Fixed encoding errors in the ieee1516e aggregate structs (#35 - lumixen)
• bugfix Fixed intermittent crash in the 1516e C++ interface that happened when multiple threads accessed the RTIambassador. Fix was also ported across to the HLA v1.3 interface. (#39 - raymondfrancis)
• bugfix Corrected indirection for processing VariableLengthData objects in 1516e C++ interface (#39 - raymondfrancis)
• bugfix Fixed TimeFactory compatibility problem in 1516e C++ with code generated from Pitch Developer Studio (#39 - raymondfrancis)
• bugfix Allow absolute file URLs in FOM module specification when creating a federation in the 1516e interface (#39 - raymondfrancis)