
version 2.2.3

- added support for Persistent POAs; see demo/poa/account-3 for an example
- added new activation mode "poa" to micod to allow automated activation
  of servers with persistent POAs
- allow nested method invocations in POACurrent
- allow activation of persistent POA servers with `imr activate'
- fixed _this() in POA-based skeletons
- fixed idle() in SelectDispatcher
- fixed initialization bug when using a static libmico.
- Workaround for egcs 1.1 on Linux (Torben Weis)
- fixed bug in DynUnion when using Unions with implicit default
- fixed bug in Object::_is_equivalent()
- fixed bug in Buffer::dump() (Christophe Rene)
- IR: don't allow creation of an interface within an interface
  (Christophe Rene)
- IDL compiler:
  * fixed bug related to POA tie classes for interfaces in modules
  * don't give an error for unknown #pragma directives
  * reset #pragma prefix to nothing at the end of an #included file
  * added --no-poa-ties option

version 2.2.2

- fixed bug in BOA and micod related to unshared servers: newly created
  objects were not moved to a new server
- made SelectDispatcher signal-safe to fix a bug that sometimes crashed
  micod when a server crashed or terminated (reported by Torben Weis)
- changes for VC++ 6.0 (Travis Rein)
- fixed bug in property service (reported by Karel Gardas)
- made some refinements to Win32 install process
- added MFC demo under Win32 (see demo/mfc)
- fixed bug in IDL compiler related to aliases of arrays (reported by
  Christophe Rene)
- fixed bug in IDL compiler related to forward declarations of
  interfaces and re-opening of modules

version 2.2.1

- tried to fix problem with global InitInterceptors
- fixed imr activate to really activate the given implementation (reported
  by Torben Weis)
- fixed bug to make aborting a deferred DII invocation work (reported by
  Philippe Merle)
- fixes in PropertyService for compilers != gcc
- fixed bug in TypeCodeConst
- fixed bugs in mico-setup.* scripts
- added POA documentation (Frank)
- added property service (written by Leif Jacobsmeier)
- configure changes for emx (reported by Ralf Barkow)
- tried to fix Win32 problems in generated code (reported by Olivier Richaud)
- tried to work around IDL compiler crashes under Win32 (Martin Sander)
- reorganized make process under Win32
- fixes for --enable-final
- added demo/interop/{README,Makefile}, which were missing in 2.2.0
- fixes for namespaces
- fixes for egcs 1.1
- IDL compiler:
  * improved code generation for --c++-impl (Rick H. Wesson)
  * use correct file suffix with --hh-suffix (Robert Klemme)
  * bug fix for --query-server-for-narrow (Christophe Rene)
  * bug fix for mapping of arrays (Christophe Rene)
  * bug fix concerning forward declarations of interfaces (Robert Klemme)
  * accept preprocessor options -E and -M

version 2.2.0

- added JacORB interoperability demo (Thomas Fricke)
- cleaned up mico-* scripts (Robert Klemme)
- updated copyright headers in source files
- fixes for Win32 (Martin Sander)
- added operator* to VAR templates
- added Any::from_static_any() and Any::to_static_any(), which will be
  used to speed up <<= and >>= operators
- added POA demos (Frank).
- made configure check whether struct ctors, dtors, op= have to be
  explicitely specified to work around g++ bugs. Changed code generation
  to place #ifdefs around affected code.
- fixed bug in ORB::perform_work()
- fixed problems with static variables in inline methods (reported by
  Stefan Schaefer)
- implemented basic support for CORBA 2.2 DomainManager stuff
- implemented CORBA 2.2 service information stuff
- changed mico-c++, mico-shc++, mico-ld, and mico-shld scripts to work
  with compilers other than gcc
- fixed bug in bstring fix (Andrew Metcalfe)
- fixed memory leak in DataDecoder destructor (Andrew Metcalfe)
- fixed bug in ORB shutdown processing
- started to port MICO to IBM xlC
- Interface Repository bug fix related to wrong construction of
  multiple nested recursive structs/unions
- started to port MICO to HP aCC
- integrated CORBA 2.2 POA, Current, and Policy stuff (Frank)
- fixed problem with basic_string<>::c_str() (reported by Andrew Metcalfe)
- added CORBA 2.2 method Exception::_raise()
- fixed problem with oneway invocation buffering
- added missing #define's in CORBA.h for Win32
- IDL compiler:
  * allow re-opening of modules
  * added missing declaration "Exception *_ex" for !HAVE_EXCEPTIONS
  * declare union read accessor methods for base types, objects, and
    arrays as const
  * fixed wrong mapping of aliases to strings in operation signatures
    (reported by Leif Jacobsmeier)
  * fixed bugs in generation of wstring union accessor methods
  * instantiate _tc_* constants on demand to reduce memory footprint
  * fix bug in generation of constants when using namespaces
  * fixed problems with constants and _tc_* constants when modules
    are mapped to namespaces
  * removed some MICO specific operations from IR. The IDL compiler
    can now generate code from a foreign IR via --repo-id.
  * added new option --c++-impl which will generate some default
    C++ implementations for interfaces (donated by Stefan Westerfeld)
  * make sure that template_impl.h is only included after all generated
    code (there was a problem before if a generated .h file included
    another generated .h file)
  * bug fix for wrong bounds during evaluation of short consts
    (reported by Bert Bril)

version 2.1.1

- moved CORBA::NameValuePair implementation from auxdir/dynany_impl.cc
  to orb/dynany.cc due to problems with unresolved externals when
  using gcc 2.7.2
- changed the way the BOA matches target objects of invocations with
  objects in the active object map to allow adding new IOR profiles after
  the object has been created
- started to port MICO to the SUN C++ compiler 4.x (Andreas Schultz)
- tried to fix problem with *Wrapper classes on Sinix+gcc2.7.2 (reported
  by Klaus Thiele)
- generate .zip file distribution in admin/mkrelease
- separated out OS specific code into include/mico/os-*.h and orb/os-*.cc
- raise CORBA::MARSHAL when arguments and/or results cannot be decoded
- added ServerRequestBase::cancel()
- started to port MICO for the Visual-C++ compiler. See README-WIN32 for
  details (with a lot of help from Martin Sander)
- started to write an FAQ
- included GNU cpp in the distribution for use by the idl compiler and ird
- made configure check whether compiler supports const overloading of
  conversion operators and define the *_var conversion operators accordingly
- fixed bug in ServiceContextList handling (reported by Andrew Metcalfe)
- wrote StaticAny test (test/dii/static.cc)
- fixed bugs in decoder get_*s() methods
- changed SSL support to be compliant with revision 1.2-final of the security
  service specification (omg document orbos/98-01-14.pdf) with one exception
  for Visibroker compatibilty (see include/mico/ssliop.h for details)
- fixed type name clashes in orb/uni_*.{cc,h}
- ObjectAdapter::skeleton() can now return NIL if there is no skeleton for
  the object in question
- fixes for PowerMax OS (by Andrew Metcalfe)
- fixes for Cygnus CDK beta 19; updated installation instructions for beta 19
- fixed typos in CDR put_*s() and get_*s() methods (reported by
  Andrew Metcalfe)
- fixed horrible bug in DataDecoder::encaps_begin() (reported by FP)
- IDL compiler bug fixes:
  * fixed some problems with aliases of arrays and added some
    missing functions for array templates (reported by Christophe Rene)
  * proper order of generated code for nested declarations
    (found by Kristian Kvilekval)
  * print proper error message for wrong const expressions
    (reported by Christophe Rene)
  * generate proper code for typedef of wstring (reported
    by Rick H. Wesson)
  * fixed some bugs related to --feed-included-defs and forward
    declarations (pointed out by Christophe Rene)
  * initialization of const decls defined in modules (found by
    Andrew Metcalfe)
  * print error and exit when cpp cannot be executed
  * insert space between two closing brackets of nested sequence templates
    (reported by Christophe Rene)
- added CORBA 2.2 methods to ServerRequest (FP)
- added configure option --disable-static (FP)
- new option --pseudo for the IDL compiler. If used, only pseudo
  stubs and skeletons are generated. Needed for the upcoming POA.
  (provided by Frank Pilhofer)

version 2.1.0

- when --relative-paths is specified to the IDL compiler emit #include
  statements relative to paths specified by -I options
- added relationship service and demo written by Karel Gardas
- added Interceptor::ConnInterceptor that allows for connection monitoring
  on server side; see demo/interceptor for an example
- avoid use of *::clear() on STL containers, since the old HP-STL in
  gcc 2.7.2 doesnt support it
- mostly removed BOA dependencies from DSI/SSI (patches provided by FP)
- new option -ORBNoCodeSets to not add code set information to object
  references (may be needed when talking to not CORBA 2.1 compliant ORBs)
- new option -ORBConfFile to specify config file name (defaults to ~/.micorc)
- duplicate some objects in ServerRequest to make sure they are not
  deleted until interceptors are executed (by Greg Banks)
- made erase (end()) work on MiniSTL data structures (bug reported by
  Andrew Vajoczki)
- implemented static invocation interface (SII) and static skeleton
  interface (SSI); see test/dii/siiclient.cc and test/dii/siiserver.cc
  for an example
- added code set converters for UCS-4, UTF-7, UTF-8, UTF-16, ISO-8859-*,
  various IBM code pages, ASCII, EBCDIC, KOI8-R, Mac, Windows, HTML
  (donated by Marcus Mueller)
- fixed HP-UX select() hangs (by Greg Banks)
- fixed bug in tools/ir-browser/Makefile (reported by Bruno Thomas)
- added basic support for code set conversion as per 2.2 spec
- added missing ComponentDecoder destructor
- fixes for IRIX CC (reported by Christoph Best)
- bugfix in interface repository (hinted by Christophe Rene)
- adopted BOA to new micod
- redesigned and reimplemented part of micod:
  * removed object adapter (esp. BOA) dependencies
  * provide a flexible framework for implementing arbitrary activation policies
  * fixed all design problems regarding object migration
- added configure option --enable-namespace to turn on namespace support
  (off by default, because current egcs releases have namespaces, but
  they are broken in subtle ways).
- bugfix in Tcl dispatcher (by FP)
- more Visibroker/SSL interoperability fixes
- changed IDL compiler in order to initialize non-global const
  declarations in the implementation file
- some changes to the IDL compiler for 2.2 compliance
  * added _out types
  * added in(), out() and inout() methods for _var types
  * C++ keywords are prefixed by "_cxx_"
- added IDL compiler option --relative-paths to generate relative
  paths for #include directives for C++ mapping
- added IDL compiler option --feed-included-defs for feeding
  #include'd definitions into IR. Default is not to feed them
- IDL compiler bug fixes:
  * treat TypeCode as a scoped name and not as a IDL keyword
    (reported by Rick H. Wesson)
  * give verbose error message if there is no value for an
    explicit default member of a union (reported by R. Switzer)
  * give verbose error message for mal-formed #pragma directives
    (reported by Rick H. Wesson)
  * bug fix for unmarshalling of explicit default union members
    (reported by Frank Pilhofer)
  * bug fix related to stub generation for exceptions declared
    on global scope (reported by Daniel Veillard)
  * print proper error message for wrong const expressions
    (reported by Christophe Rene)
  * don't allow re-opening of interfaces
    (reported by Christophe Rene)

version 2.0.8

- support for Principal::get_property("peer-address")
- fixed build problems on AIX
- fix for gcc 2.7.2 and other dumb compilers: moved part of
  dynany_impl.cc to orb/dynany.cc. otherwise you get unresolved
  symbols when linking binaries without libmicoaux
- more -Wall fixes
- added configure option --enable-split

version 2.0.7

- avoid assert() expressions with side effects; -DNDEBUG dows now work
- fixes for -Wall
- more elaborate check for working namespaces in configure
- added input queue to GIOPConn
- fixed typo in stream_impl.cc
- added #define MICO_BIN_VERSION suitable for use with /lib/cpp directives
- fixed problems with imr activate
- Object::_non_existent() now returns TRUE if the server cannot be contacted
  instead of dumping core
- fixed bugs in Any::except_get_end() and Any::struct_get_end()
  (reported by Frank Pilhofer)
- fixed interoperability problems with VisiBroker when using SSL
- preserve implicit default union case during extraction from Any
- fixed bug in xwcscmp()
- fixed some problems with --disable-except
- fixed bug in wide string output
- fixed a bug in handling of unknown IOR profiles
- fixed bug in BOA::dispose() (dug out by Torben Weis)
- changes for IR browser to work with JavaCUP 0.10g
- don't generate marshalling code for type sequence<Object>
- fixed bug in IDL compiler related to nested recursive unions
- applied PowerMax patches (provided by Andrew Metcalfe)
- fixed a bug in Principal::get_property (reported by Andrew Metcalfe)
- fixed bug in interceptor code (reported by Andrew Metcalfe)
- fixes in Tcl dispatcher for Tcl 8
- moved DynAny stuff to CORBA module (as per CORBA 2.2 spec)
- added Principal::set_peer_info()
- fixed bug in DynAny that occured when using aliases of base types
  (reported by Philippe Merle)
- removed debug output in const.cc
- fixed problem with ministl/function.h (patches by Owen Taylor)
- fixes for GTK 1.0.0 (patches by Owen Taylor)
- fixed some floating point problems

version 2.0.6

- incorporated most of the changes for SGI CC (patches provided by
  Christoph Best)
- incorporated most of the changes for PowerMax OS (patches provided by
  Andrew Metcalfe)
- added support for CORBA 2.2 types to IDL compiler and interface
  repository (see test/idl/27)
- made ORB::cancel() work
- reimplemented BOAObjectRestorer using interceptors
- added support for Interceptors as per OMG document orbos/98-01-08.pdf
  (realtime CORBA joint submission), see demo/interceptor and demo/ssl
  for examples
- fixed AC_CHECK_SOCKET_SIZE_T for glibc (patch provided by Martin Baulig)
- DynAny: added support for CORBA 2.2 types; speed and size optimizations
- added CORBA 2.2 support for GIOP 1.1 and IIOP 1.1
- moved the dispatchers into separate libs (i.e., libmicox, libmicoqt,
  libmicogtk, libmicotcl)
- changed semantics of BOA methods for CORBA 2.2 compliance:
  * impl_is_ready() and obj_is_ready() do not block anymore, you have to
    call orb->run() to start processing events
  * deactivate_impl() and deactivate_obj() do not stop processing
    events anymore, you have to use orb->shutdown() to make orb->run() return
  THIS REQUIRES CHANGES IN USER CODE, see examples and documentation for
  details.
- added CORBA 2.2 ORB methods work_pending(), perform_work(), run(),
  and shutdown()
- reinstall signal handler after each handled signal in
  UnixProcess::signal_handler()
- added CORBA 2.2 ORB support for long long, unsigned long long,
  long double, wchar, wstring, fixed
- added support for SSL (interoperates with Visigenic's IIOP over SSL)
  using SSLeay 0.8, see demo/ssl for an example
- added list_properties() and get_property() methods to CORBA::Principal
- calling get_principal() with a NIL environment pointer from within a
  method implementation does now work
- install all demos, not only the ones that can be compiled with current
  configuration
- added CORBA-c.cc to orb_all.cc
- fixed byteordering bugs in iop.cc
- do not link in both libtermcap and libncurses

version 2.0.5

- fixes for --enable-final (thanks to Dick Porter)
- fixed installation bug that occured when not specifying --exec-prefix
  to configure
- added include/mico/stream.idl, which was missing in the 2.0.4 release

version 2.0.4

- added stream service (designed and implemented by Christian Becker)
- preliminary support for namespaces (untested, might work with KAI C++)
- integrated most of the changes for KAI C++ (provided by Ben Eng)
- dont output dependencies for nonexisting files in mkdepend
- fixed a bug in BOAServer::invoke()
- added preliminary C language mapping (provided by Elliot Lee). see
  demo/corba-c for an example. updated docs and man pages for new idl
  compiler command line options.
- added missing _duplicate()s in ObjectRecord::impl(...) and
  ObjectRecord::iface(...)
- added bind() method to BOAObjectRestorer that enables the server to
  generate objects on demand (i.e., when a bind() for a non-existing object
  is done on the server). see demo/account2 for an example.
- repoid's in the implementation repository can now contain *, ?, and []
  wildcards (just like in a shell), e.g. a server implementing all kinds
  of objects can be registered with repoid IDL:*:1.0. this is useful in
  conjunction with the above change.
- fixed a bug in micod related to running persistent servers multiple times
- added clear() to ministl's set, map, vector, and list
- print more info for uncaught user exceptions
- IDL compiler:
  * #include directives in generated code now use correct suffix
  * --version will exit IDL compiler
  * files are always generated in working directory
- fixed bugs in install targets in auxdir/Makefile and coss/Makefile
- some performance optimizations (about 30% faster according to demo/bench)
- do not turn inet:localhost:* into inet:<some local address>:*
- made configure check for JDK 1.1
- changes in bstring.h for -frepo
- updated docs
- bugfix in DynStruct::from_any() (provided by Philippe Merle)
- wrote a Tcl dispatcher
- changed BOA::create() and thus DynamicImplementation::_create_ref()
  to not consume InterfaceDef and ImplementationDef arguments 
- made event service and event service demo compile without exceptions
- re-wrote tools/ir-browser for JDK 1.1.5
- added interoperability test for JDK 1.2 beta 2.
  see mico/demo/interop/jdk/README for details.
- changed configure to figure out the type of the size argument to socket
  calls
- added a missing delete in QT dispatcher
- fixed bugs in map::insert() and set::insert():
  * lookup() used a == b instead of !_comp(a,b) && !_comp(b,a)
  * the boolean returned from insert() was inversed
- added events in demo/Makefile
- fixes for -Wall in ministl/list.h
- define INADDR_LOOPBACK in address.cc if its not in the system headers
- do not include math.h in util.cc on SGI due to conflicts for initstate()

version 2.0.3

- added simple is_a() cache
- changed ln -fs into ln -f -s
- fixed some bugs in the event service
- made configure fail if a working cpp cannot be found
- fixed bug in install-sh

version 2.0.2

- rewrote part of the Event Service and implemented pull
- added callback mechanism to DII
- bug fix for prototype of Any insertion operator for enums
- added event service (only untyped push so far) written by Kai-Uwe Sattler
- changed DSI to be able to defer completion of requests
- added some notes about Win32 in INSTALL and doc.tex
- fixes for Cygnus CDK
- added new IDL compiler option --query-server-for-narrow, which
  obsoletes --query-ir-for-narrow (still left in but gives a warning)
- use the server instead of the IR for _narrow().
- fixed bug in IDL compiler related to array union members
- fixed Ministl to work with egcs
- added GTK support
- fixed a bug with InterfaceDef::is_a( Object )
- IDL compiler now handles forward declarations which are defined
  in #included files.
- fixed bug in IDL compiler related to const declarations

version 2.0.1

- added a missing return TRUE in Naming_impl.cc
- #pragma on SGI now properly recognized
- renamed aux to auxdir due to problems with Windows aux device
- changes for win32+cygnus cdk

version 2.0.0

- replaced CORBA::* by MICO_* in array.h
- solved some remaining problems with T* conversion operators in var.h
- changes for *BSD in configure
- again fixed a bug in ORB_instance()
- fixed problems with -frepo
- prevent nsd from binding to itself
- added make install-cd
- do not link in any libraries when creating shared libs in mico-shld.def
- made configure check for exceptions in shared libraries
- build libmicoaux and libmicocoss as shared libs if exceptions in shared
  libs work
- added demo/redlich and demo/siegel
- fixes for egcs

version 0.9b6

- fixed bugs in mico-setup.* scripts
- changed ministl to use !cmp(a,b) && !cmp(b,a) instead of a==b
- changed configure to recognise egcs (untested)
- only link in needed libs in mico-ld
- catch broken linux gcc's in configure
- changed licensing policy for idl compiler output
- fixed byte ordering bug that showed up when running the BOA daemon on a
  machine with byte order differing from client or server machine
- beefed up the graphical interface repository browser
- IDL compiler now generates _this() member functions
- major re-work of the documentation
- fixed bugs in 'make diffs'
- changes in demo/ to be able to compile the demos outside of the MICO
  build dir; make install now installs the demos under doc/mico/examples
- do not use the -fPIC compiled object files for building static libs,
  since specifying -fhandle-exceptions and -fPIC together produces buggy
  code
- fixed a bug in micod: bind() hung forever if reactivating a server
  and binding to a transient object
- fixed a serious bug in ORB_instance()
- fixed a bug in the lookup of scoped names in the IR
- added demo/activate
- added diffs (in README.SIEGEL) to make the example from Siegel's CORBA
  book work with MICO
- added demo/interop
- fixed a bug in Principal::encode()

version 0.9b5

- added extensive error checking in idl compiler
- fixed scoping bugs in the idl compiler
- added --h-suffix and --c-suffix options to the idl compiler
- fixed gmake install
- added shellscripts mico-setup.sh and mico-setup.csh scripts that
  set up paths for using mico (in case it is not installed in the standard
  paths)
- added ctor, dtor, op= for SomeRecStruct in anytest.cc to force instantiation
  of SequenceIndTmpl methods

version 0.9b4

- fixed DynAny bugs and added DynAny test file provided by Philippe Merle
- build static and shared libmico
- _narrow() does now handle the case where base and derived class are
  in separate .idl files
- new IDL compiler option --query-ir-for-narrow, see test/idl/26/README for
  details
- implemented #pragma support
- support for recursive sequences
- changes to make sequences of arrays work
- some cleanups for -Wall
- (hopefully) fixed that transport.cc assertion
- implemented Object::_hash()
- implemented obsolete TypeCode parameter interface
- improved error handling all over the place
- made the various IOR profiles and decoders reusable by not hardcoding
  the profile id into them
- added code for handling unknown IOR profiles
- check for IEEE compliant floating point types and only use the
  floating point converters if non IEEE compliant floating point types are
  detected
- some speedups for Buffer, IIOPServer, IIOPProxy

version 0.9b3

- made TypeCode::member_label() return a copy of the Any and changed all the
  places where it was used (only dynany_impl.cc).
- fixed memory leaks in typecode.cc and dynany_impl.cc
- fixed HP-UX idl compiler trouble
- made Any::replace(tc, 0) work
- fixed the repository id for pk_Object in ir_impl.cc
- changed String_var to not replace (char *)0 by ""
- fixes for systems without exception support
- misc changes for -frepo
- added omg.org prefix for exception repoid's
- fixes for 64 bit systems
- updated manual pages

version 0.9b2

- fixed bugs in the BOA to enable unshared servers to invoke methods on
  on objects after deactivate_obj() was called on them.
- updated docs and demo/account3 for the above change.
- micod is now able to save and restore the contents of the implementation
  repository (option --db <file> turns this on).
- changed the way --no-exceptions is handled by the idl compiler: code for
  exception classes is still generated but throwing them will result in
  an error message and program abort.
- added manual pages for nsadmin and nsd.

version 0.9b1

- added "activate" subcommand to imr to force activation of an implementation
  (needed for servers that register with the naming service).
- objects are now restored on demand (i.e., when invoked). before 0.9b1
  all objects were restored at server startup.
- bind() can now distinguish between objects of the same type by passing
  it the BOA::ReferenceData of the requested object; see demo/account2 for
  an example.
- made Object::_get_interface() and Object::_is_a() work.
- changed Object::_save_object() to return a Boolean. transient objects
  should not implement this method, persistent object should make it return
  TRUE. This requires changes in user code.
- added support for DynAny; demo/dynany contains an example how to use it.
- added naming service + admin tool (donated by Kai-Uwe Sattler); demo/naming
  contains an example how to use it.
- wrote a graphical interface repository browser; see tools/ir-browser.
- added support for contexts.
- added an example (demo/account4) for object migration.
- mostly finished the interface repository.
- fixed problems in the generated _narrow() code.
- changed the way #include<foo.idl> is handled by the idl compiler:
  no code is generated for included files, instead foo.h is included. that
  means you have to run all #included files through the idl compiler by hand.
  the advantage is that you can now build libraries of CORBA objects. 
- lots of bugfixes and minor changes.
- documentation updates. 

version 0.8b1:

- lots of bug fixes
- support for oneway methods
- support for arrays
- support for unions
- support for const expressions
- support for using MICO in X11 applications (Xt and preliminary
  support for Qt), see demo/x11 and demo/qtmico for examples
- the BOA can now load CORBA objects into a client at runtime using
  loadable modules, giving you maximum performance while still allowing
  for runtime binding, see demo/shlib for an example
- support for installing a user defined identifier (BOA::ReferenceData)
  in object implementations, see demo/account2 for an example
- MICO provides now four wrapper scripts mico-c++/mico-ld and
  mico-shc++/mico-shld for compiling/linking mico applications and
  loadable modules, respectively
- lots of reorganizations to reduce the size of the library and
  the generated binaries
- speedups
- made --enable-repo work (needed on HP-UX)
- shared libs now work on HP-UX
- documentation updates
- docs are now available as
  * ps,
  * ps in booklet format,
  * archive of html pages
- updated licensing conditions: libs and generated code is now covered
  by LGPL, everthing else by the GPL
- added unshared-server example, see demo/account3

version 0.7b1:

- lots of bug fixes
- support for exceptions
- support for IDL type Object
- major speedup for local communication
- support for shared libraries
- works now on 64 bit hardware (e.g., DEC alpha)
- documentation updates
- implemented some missing functionality:
  * ORB methods for sending multiple requests
  * ORB::create_operation_list()
  * ServerRequest::op_def()

