Commons Daemon Package

               Version 1.0.7

                Release Notes

INTRODUCTION:

Commons Daemon is a set of utilities and Java support classes for running

Java applications as server processes.

Commonly known as 'daemon' processes in Unix terminology (hence the name),

on Windows they are called 'services'.

This document contains the release notes for this version of the Commons

Daemon package, and highlights changes since the previous version.  The

current release adds new features and bug fixes, and is being done now to

follow the release early/release often mentality.

Compatibility with 1.0.3

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Binary compatible - Yes

Source compatible - Yes

Semantic compatible - Yes

Commons DAEMON 1.0.3 requires a minimum of JDK 1.3

NEW FEATURES:

* DAEMON-209: Add --LibraryPath to procrun for setting the

              LoadLibrary search paths (1.0.6)

* DAEMON-208: Add -server and -client -jvm <name> synonyms (1.0.6)

* DAEMON-205: Add support for building on ARM processors (1.0.6)

* DAEMON-204: Add DaemonSignal interface that allows catching SIGUSR2

              signals and creating custom callbacks (1.0.6)

* DAEMON-202: Allow JSVC_OPTS environment variable to be used in

              the example Tomcat scripts (1.0.6)

* DAEMON-180: Add DaemonWrapper to allow running standard applications

              as daemons. (1.0.4)

* DAEMON-179: Allow procrun to use java/lang/System as --ShutdownClass. (1.0.4)

* DAEMON-178: Allow jsvc umask to be configured at build time

* DAEMON-177: Allow fail during init with nicer message. (1.0.4)

* DAEMON-176: Create config.nice during configure step. (1.0.4)

* DAEMON-173: Allow --JavaHome=jdk and --JavaHome=jre options that

              will guess default JavaHome from the registry. (1.0.4)

* DAEMON-160: Remove obsolete code; rename native/nt as native/windows (1.0.4)

* DAEMON-144: Drop sample dependency on Commons Collections ExtendedProperties (1.0.4)

* DAEMON-95:  Support log rotation using SIGUSR1 (1.0.4)

* DAEMON-80:  Syslog support for jsvc (1.0.4)

* DAEMON-138: Add --PidFile option to allow storing running process id. (1.0.3)

* DAEMON-137: Add --LogJniMessages allowing to configure JNI verbose message

              logging. By default those messages were always logged. (1.0.3)

* DAEMON-140: Add missing Java6 parameters -ea, da, -esa, -dsa, -showversion

              and their long name synonyms. (1.0.3)

* DAEMON-142: Add option to display procrun version. (1.0.3)

* DAEMON-166: Add classpath .jar expansion. If the classpath

              element ends with asterisk it will evaluate to all .jar files

              found in the path. (1.0.3)

* Add -wait and -stop parameters. (1.0.1).

  The -wait parameter is experimental: that a is loop testing for a

  file in /tmp and waiting n/10 seconds.

* Allow to run as normal user for testing. (1.0.1).

* Initial import to Commons, including the daemon Java API, and jsvc

  for Unix and Windows NT/2K/XP, which allows running a Java program

  as a native operating system daemon

* Switch to JIRA bug tracking system.

* Add sample ProcrunService Java application for use with Procrun Jvm/Java modes (1.0.3)

BUG FIXES:

1.0.7: DAEMON-211

1.0.6: DAEMON-186, DAEMON-193, DAEMON-194, DAEMON-206, DAEMON-185, DAEMON-200

       DAEMON-192

1.0.5: DAEMON-158, DAEMON-184, DAEMON-187, DAEMON-188, DAEMON-190

1.0.4: DAEMON-95, DAEMON-171, DAEMON-100, DAEMON-164, DAEMON-165, DAEMON-175,

       DAEMON-177, DAEMON-150, DAEMON-163, DAEMON-182, DAEMON-181

1.0.3: DAEMON-108, DAEMON-128, DAEMON-139, DAEMON-143, DAEMON-148,

       DAEMON-135, DAEMON-155, DAEMON-159, DAEMON-161, DAEMON-145, DAEMON-146,

       DAEMON-167, DAEMON-168, DAEMON-154, DAEMON-149

1.0.2: DAEMON-16, DAEMON-31, DAEMON-40, DAEMON-45, DAEMON-49, DAEMON-60,

       DAEMON-84, DAEMON-90, DAEMON-91, DAEMON-92, DAEMON-93, DAEMON-94,

       DAEMON-96, DAEMON-97, DAEMON-98, DAEMON-102, DAEMON-105, DAEMON-106,

       DAEMON-110, DAEMON-112, DAEMON-113, DAEMON-114, DAEMON-115, DAEMON-116,

       DAEMON-117, DAEMON-118, DAEMON-119, DAEMON-120, DAEMON-121, DAEMON-123,

       DAEMON-124, DAEMON-125, DAEMON-126, DAEMON-129, DAEMON-130, DAEMON-132,

       DAEMON-133

1.0.1: 304310,  30177, 27523, 29465, 31614, 33580, 31613, 34851.

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