Product Releases

1. Introduction

This document lists the product releases for the Memory Pool System project. (See [RB 1999-05-20, 8] for a discussion of master sources, versions, and releases.)

This document will be updated as new releases are created.

The readership of this document is anyone interested in the project.

This document is not confidential.

2. Releases

To download a release, click the link in the first column (eg. "1.108.1").
To see the reported defects in each release (including defects found after the release was made), click the "Known" issues links.
To see what is new in each release, click the "Release notes" links.
To see more details of what is new in each release, click the "Fixed" issues links.

Release	Date Origin	Overview	Issues
1.118.0	2023-07-11 5da38b4dd	Merging Configura customizations with the public MPS. Release notes.
1.117.0	2018-07-30 version/1.117/...@194779	Fork-safety on Unix platforms. Release notes.	Known Fixed
1.116.0	2016-09-14 version/1.116/...@192394	Automatic measurement of generation mortality. Support for postmortem debugging. Release notes.	Known Fixed
1.115.0	2016-04-07 version/1.115/...@190728	Client control over pause times. Flexible scanning of tagged references. New platform `fri6ll`. Release notes.	Known Fixed
1.114.0	2014-07-07 version/1.114/...@186841	Improvements to performance, tunability, flexibility and robustness. Release notes.	Known Fixed
1.113.0	2014-03-19 version/1.113/...@184858	Improved interface to generation chains. Release notes.	Known Fixed
1.112.0	2014-01-13 version/1.112/...@183970	New platform `lii6ll`. `/LARGEADDRESSAWARE` on Windows. Threads on OS X. Release notes.	Known Fixed
1.111.0	2013-05-08 version/1.111/...@181626	First release with full documentation. New tools for analysing MPS logs using SQLite.	Known Fixed
1.110.0	2012-09-14 version/1.110/...@179480	Major release: 64-bit is here! Major updates to support modern versions of Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and FreeBSD; dropped support for other operating systems. Major updates to support 64-bit variants of all platforms. Redesign of MPS build bringing significant performance improvements using global optimisation. Redesign of MPS integration allowing source-level mixing and optimisation with client code. Update to telemetry system allowing in-core logging and backtraces of recent events. Improved compaction of virtual memory usage at the end of collection cycles. Simple GNU autoconf support. Improved initial experience: readme, build notes, etc.	Known Fixed
exp-175969	2011-08-29 branch/2010-11-06/transform/...@175969	Experimental binary release for Configura. Built under NT6.1 and SDK version 7.1 but otherwise intended to be functionally identical to exp-173355.
exp-173355	2010-12-31 branch/2010-11-06/transform/...@173355	Experimental binary release for Configura. Incremental objects 0.3.
exp-173308	2010-12-23 branch/2010-11-06/transform/...@173308	Experimental binary release for Configura.
exp-173228	2010-12-16 branch/2010-11-06/transform/...@173228	Experimental binary release for Configura. Incremental objects 0.2.
exp-173030	2010-11-30 branch/2010-11-06/transform/...@173030	Experimental binary release for Configura. Transform objects 0.1.
exp-171613	2010-07-29 branch/2010-03-11/vmem/...@171613	Experimental binary release for Configura. Diagnostic improvements on 171553.
exp-171553	2010-07-23 branch/2010-03-11/vmem/...@171553	Experimental binary release for Configura. Generational diagnostics.
exp-170513	2010-04-29 branch/2010-03-11/vmem/...@170513	Experimental binary release for Configura. MPS-shark 1.1.
exp-170504	2010-04-29 branch/2010-03-11/vmem/...@170504	Experimental binary release for Configura.
1.109.1	2010-03-23 version/1.109/...@170105	Binary release to Configura. Simple-chunk-return.	Known Fixed
1.109.0	2010-03-05 version/1.109/...@169942	Binary release to Configura. Messages: add `mps_message_clock` (job001969); fix `mps_message_gc_start` lifecycle (job001570). AMC LSP. `mps_addr_pool` and `mps_addr_fmt`. Buildable with VC9.0. mps-fns.def (w3gen.def) file allows symbol re-export, so DLLs can call MPS.	Known Fixed
exp-169863	2010-02-26 branch/2009-03-31/padding/...@169863	Experimental binary release for Configura. Incremental object.
exp-169819	2010-02-12 branch/2009-03-31/padding/...@169819	Experimental binary release for Configura. Collection workrate.
1.108.2	2008-05-01 version/1.108/...@164907	Binary release to Configura. If unable to extend arena by desired amount: more fine-grained search; `mps_arena_vm_growth` specifies desired & minimum increment. Fix auto_header nailboard leak. Fix AMC nailed seg temporary retention when freeable.	Known Fixed
exp-163759	2008-01-11 branch/2007-12-19/vmarenagrow/...@163759	Experimental binary release for Configura.
1.108.1	2007-12-21 version/1.108/...@163681	Binary release to Configura. If unable to extend arena by desired amount, try smaller extension.	Known Fixed
exp-163669	2007-12-21 branch/2007-12-19/vmarenagrow/...@163669	Experimental binary release for Configura.
1.108.0	2007-07-06 version/1.108/...@162813	Less-delayed finalization. Fix incorrect assert when memory is low. More Mac OS X functionality. Build on Linux and FreeBSD 5.5.	Known Fixed
1.107.0	2006-12-13 version/1.107/...@161223	Binary release to Configura. Post message when a garbage collection starts, saying why. Hot varieties (hi, he) have AVERs, don't gather stats. Fix arena walk when LO pool is present (job001455). Mac OS X Intel build.	Known Fixed
1.106.2	2006-04-11 version/1.106/...@158101	Open source release: fix build failures and add "hello-world" example code; no functional changes to MPS implementation code.	Known Fixed
1.106.1	2006-02-01 version/1.106/...@157000	Open source release (to incorporate work from 1.102.0 to 1.106.0).	Known Fixed
1.106.0	2005-09-30 version/1.106/...@155175	Binary release to Configura (split asserts).	Known Fixed
1.105.0	2005-02-16 version/1.105/...@144830	Binary release to Configura (DLL).	Known Fixed
1.104.0	2003-11-19 version/1.104/...@64985	Binary release to Configura.	Known Fixed
1.103.0	2003-11-14 version/1.103/...@64245	Binary release to Configura.	Known Fixed
1.102.0	2003-11-05 version/1.102/...@63088	Binary release to Configura.	Known Fixed
1.101.0	2003-07-31 version/1.101/...@52060	Fix `mps_arena_has_addr` for Configura (job000741). [DRJ 2004-11-09] says, “I made this release to Configura whilst at their offices and alas have not recorded proper details by mistake.”	Known Fixed
1.100.1	2002-06-21 version/1.100/...@30350	Second open source release for ISMM 2002, fixing some problems with recently-integrated sources.	Known Fixed
1.100.0	2002-06-18 version/1.100/...@30260	First open source release for ISMM 2002.	Known Fixed

A. References

[RB 1999-05-20]	"Product Quality through Change Management"; Richard Brooksby; Geodesic Systems; 1999-05-20; <URL: https://www.ravenbrook.com/doc/1999/05/20/pqtcm/>.
[DRJ 2004-11-09]	"MPS things todo"; David Jones; Ravenbrook Limited; 2004-11-09; <URL: https://info.ravenbrook.com/mail/2004/11/09/11-55-38/0/>.

B. Document History

2002-06-17	RB	Created based on P4DTI document.
2002-06-21	NB	Added release 1.100.1.
2004-03-05	DRJ	Added release 1.102.0, release 1.103.0, release 1.104.0.
2005-09-30	RHSK	Registered release 1.105.0; added release 1.106.0.
2006-02-16	RHSK	Added release 1.106.1.
2006-03-30	RHSK	User-friendly help for Fixed issues and Known issues (MPS-Kit readme.txt now links to here).
2006-04-04	RHSK	Links to Known issues now sort by Priority (by default): critical defects at top of list.
2006-04-11	RHSK	Added release 1.106.2; and add help text for how to download a release or read its readme.txt.
2006-12-13	RHSK	Registered release 1.107.0.
2007-07-06	RHSK	Registered release 1.108.0.
2008-01-07	RHSK	Registered release 1.108.1.
2008-05-01	RHSK	Registered release 1.108.2.
2010-03-05	RHSK	Registered release 1.109.0.
2010-03-23	RHSK	Registered release 1.109.1.
2011-08-17	PNJ	Altered the document style. Added entries for recent releases made from task codelines. The release dates documented are the timestamp dates of the release ZIP files. Added brief release descriptions based on mail by RB on 2011-04-13. Added extra entries for 2010 releases mentioned in this mail that come from previously undocumented task codelines.
2011-08-29	PNJ	Added an entry for release exp-175969.
2012-09-14	RB	Released 1.110.0.
2013-05-08	RB	Released 1.111.0.
2014-01-13	GDR	Released 1.112.0.
2014-03-18	GDR	Released 1.113.0.

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