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The Spread Toolkit provides tools for developing reliable and robust distributed applications ranging from collaboration tools to fault-tolerant database servers to replicated Web servers. It consists of a daemon which provides multicast messaging, reliability, ordering, and membership services, and a library which applications link with. Spread provides a simple API for writing group applications and is designed to provide high performance for local and wide area networking applications.

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2006-12-06 11:49
4.0.0

Manageability was improved by allowing dynamic
configuration of sets of daemons without requiring
a restart. A new Virtual Synchrony interface is
now included with Spread, along with API
improvements in the membership functions and
better C API support for forking, multi-threaded
clients. A number of scalability and performance
improvements were included in group support, and
the build environment for both Windows and Unix
was simplified and improved. All bugs from the
3.17 branch as well as other fixes unique to
Spread 4 were fixed.
Tags: Stable, Major feature enhancements

2006-12-05 22:55
3.17.4

This release has a number of bugfixes. They include fixing some daemon crashes, memory corruption in the daemon and C library, deadlocks when used in threaded apps and errors occur, bind problems on Windows, incorrect view IDs in groups, and other minor fixes. There are no external API changes.
Tags: Old Stable, Major bugfixes

2004-10-19 16:58
3.17.3

This release includes a few enhancements and a
number of fixes. These include fixing some daemon
crashes, membership issues when a large number of
daemons start at once, a substantial decrease in
memory usage under some scenarios, new build files
for VC++.NET, a Spread sptmonitor program that
works on Windows, stricter config file parsing,
fixes for the Java and C libraries to remove
blocking and thread conflicts during connection,
and some small cleanups and stability
improvements.
Tags: Old Stable, Major bugfixes

2004-04-21 20:06
3.17.2

This release includes a number of bugfixes, including some that fix daemon crashes, a decrease in message token overhead, and some small cleanups and stability improvements. The configuration file is parsed more strictly so certain configurations that used to be accepted but would cause runtime errors are now rejected immediately.
Tags: Old Stable, Major bugfixes

2003-06-23 23:25
3.17.1

This release has a number of bugfixes, including some that fix daemon crashes and potential security issues, and some small cleanups and stability improvements. Upgrading is highly encouraged. The potential security issue is a buffer overflow in the C language client library that could be exploited by a malicious daemon or man-in-the-middle attack to execute code with the privileges of the user running the client.
Tags: Old Stable, Major bugfixes

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