• ChangeLog 0.8beta
  

   * added generation of documentation from the source code (doxygen)
   * added data sharing web server on master and slaves!!! still early version
   * added MPI (Message Passing Interface) support for parallel programming
     (the 'libmpi' library contains a subset of the MPI standard,
      the 'qadpz_mpirun' is used for launching a parallel application)
   * some more bug fixes :)
   * added support for message compression (see UDPSocket) by using one of
     the following compression libraries: BZIP2, LZO, ZLIB
  

Nov 15th, 2002 * Restructured web site

• The main web site is located at http://qadpz.sourceforge.net.
  
• A mirror web site is located at http://qadpz.idi.ntnu.no.
  

Oct 10th, 2002 * Released version 0.7

• ChangeLog 0.7
  

   * many bug fixes (some smaller, some more critical, and some left :)
   * restructuring of files in the ~/src/ directory
   * cpu speed detection under Linux
   * tested with g++ 3.2
   * added support for compressing communication messages (using bzip2)
     (this can reduce considerably the size of messages, since they are
     mostly in XML/text format)
   * more useful logging in the debug files :)
  

Dec 18th, 2001 * Released version 0.6

• ChangeLog 0.6
  

   * new platform tested, Darwin (Mac OS X) with the GNU cc compiler
   * cpu speed, free disk space and available memory detection
     under win32
   * added user checking at master (only the owner of a job or the "admin"
     user can control it)
   * debug messages in master.log cleaned up
   * master updates slave info for each received SLAVE_STATUS message
     (a slave computer could restart pretty fast, with a different info)
   * master checks for valid task ids (must be >0)
   * new received task ids must be different from any previous task id
     (and not reported back as finished to the client)
   * improved master status display (including a nice html page)
   * only changes in a slave's status are logged, not every message
   * more tests done with the brick problem, a few more bugs killed
   * slave machine information (cpu,mem,disk)
   * slave startup problem fixed
  

Oct 15th, 2001 * Released version 0.5beta

• ChangeLog 0.5beta
  

   ** remote upgrade procedure for the slave (see qadpz_admin)
      with the possibility of permanent upgrade service
      (all slaves with old version will be automatically upgraded
      when they are started)
   ** possible to send executable files as tasks to the slaves
     (see qadpz_run, slv_app) with input and output
     datafile, all is configured in XML-format config file,
     default is example.xml
   * new platform tested, IRIX with the CC system compiler
   * fixed /dev/random problem on SunOS (and other non-Linux UNIXes)
     (we use a random.bin for the pseudo-random seed)
   * fixed postURL() problem - last argument must be null
   * fixed the Linux crash of master on quit
   * possibility to write to config-files
   * winNT/2K - config file need to be in the same dir as the exe
     (not anymore in the system32 directory)
  

Sep 23rd, 2001 * Released version 0.4

• ChangeLog 0.4
  

   * fixed CR/LF problem with config files and read_passwd()
   * the slave windows service starts automaticaly at boot
   * alloc/dealloc for data/datares in slave is done by the service,
     and not by the user (the windows dll is crashing)
   * separate Storage.h for the slave (the beginning of separating
     what the user should know from the internal data types)
   * MULTISTRING type in the configuration
   * SlaveInfo and TaskInfo contains additional Software info
     from the slave (which Software exists on each slave)
   * client can ask for a specific software to exist on a slave
     (with a specified version number, or any version); the master
     will make the matching
   * slave is not logging anything by default
   * slave.cfg has a tmp_dir directory, where it stored temporary
     downloaded libraries
   * slave reports its full version (with the -version option,
     with the SlaveInfo message, and in the log file)
   * everything about OpenSSL library (all calles) are inside
     the RSAcrypter class - this makes easier to add a new crypter
     to the system
   * when the client sends an invalid user/pswd, the master will
     send back a JobStatus with error message
   * master uses slave's address from the udp packet, and not the
     one from the xml message (some wrongly configured Linux boxes
     return a wrong address in gethostname()
   * slave seems to be prety stable now
  

Sep 15th, 2001 * Released version 0.3

• ChangeLog 0.3
  

   * crypting interface working (except encrypt on Solaris)
   * user database working properly
   * slave is running as a service in WinNT/Win2K
   * no more "message in a window" errors in Win (see SetErrorMode())
   * fixed deallocation of messages in UDPConfirm (lOut items)
   * fixed user and password support for master and client
   * fized autodetect of slave platform for SlaveInfo structure
   * posibility to compile without crypting support
     (in ~/src/Makefile.base set HAVE_OPENSSL to 0)
   * fixed deallocation of shadigest in RSAcrypter class
   * by default the slave is not logging anything (for efficiency)
   * libcrypto library works in win32 (DevStudio project in the
     ~/src/common/crypter/win32 directory)
   * if the slave is started with '-debug', it won't be disabled in win32
     (since a user is already logged in :) - it will be in ready state
  

Aug 4th, 2001 * Released version 0.2

• ChangeLog 0.2
  

   * added crypting interface; only generic by now
   * added clients user database on the master
  

Aug 3rd, 2001 * Released version 0.1

• ChangeLog 0.1
  

   * first tarball :)