November 27, 2007
27 November 2007 - Apache Portable Runtime library 1.2.12
The Apache Software Foundation and the Apache Portable Runtime Project are proud to announce the General Availability of version 1.2.12 of the APR Apache Portable Runtime library.
The Project further announces the General Availability of APR-util version 1.2.12, the companion Apache Portable Utility library, and APR-iconv version 1.2.1, an alternative portable implementation of the 'iconv' library.
In conjunction with this release, the project also announces the General Availability of legacy version 0.9.17 release of the older APR 0.x library. Corresponding versions of its companion libraries APR-util version 0.9.15 and APR-iconv version 0.9.7 remain current.
APR is available for download from:
This version of APR is principally a bug fix release, including fixes for specific platforms' configuration, feature detection, and run time behavior. Most developers are encouraged to adopt the latest APR 1.x version to ensure the most comprehensive support and access to the latest features and enhancements.
The mission of the Apache Portable Runtime Project is to create and maintain software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface to underlying platform-specific implementations. The primary goal is to provide an API to which software developers may code and be assured of predictable if not identical behavior regardless of the platform on which their software is built, relieving them of the need to code special-case conditions to work around or take advantage of platform-specific deficiencies or features.
APR and its companion libraries are implemented entirely in C and provide a common programming interface across a wide variety of operating system platforms without sacrificing performance. Currently supported platforms include:
- UNIX variants
- Windows
- Netware
- Mac OS X
- OS/2
To give a brief overview, the primary core subsystems of APR 1.2 include the following:
- Atomic operations
- Dynamic Shared Object loading
- File I/O
- Locks (mutexes, condition variables, etc)
- Memory management (high performance allocators)
- Memory-mapped files
- Multicast Sockets
- Network I/O
- Shared memory
- Thread and Process management
- Various data structures (tables, hashes, priority queues, etc)
For a more complete list, please refer to the following URLs:
Users of APR 0.9 should be aware that migrating to the APR 1.x programming interfaces may require some adjustments; APR 1.x is neither source nor binary compatible with earlier APR 0.9 releases. Users of APR 1.x can expect consistent interfaces and binary backwards compatibility throughout the entire APR 1.x release cycle, as defined in our versioning rules:
- http://apr.apache.org/versioning.html
APR is already used extensively by the Apache HTTP Server version 2 and the Subversion revision control system, to name but a few. We list many known projects using APR at http://apr.apache.org/projects.html -- so please let us know if you find our libraries useful in your own projects
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Posted by Tetsuya Kitahata at November 27, 2007 07:54 AM
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