[dcmf] Announcing the availability of MPICH2-1.0.7rc1

[Pavan Balaji]

Dear all,

The first release candidate for the next release of MPICH2 (1.0.7) is 
available from 
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/research/projects/mpich2/downloads/tarballs/mpich2-1.0.7rc1.tar.gz. 
Please try it out and let us know if you encounter any problems. If all 
is well, we plan to release 1.0.7 in a week or so. The major changes 
since 1.0.6p1 are highlighted below.

(Windows binaries are available from 
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/research/projects/mpich2/downloads/tarballs/mpich2-1.0.7rc1-win32-ia32.msi 
and 
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/research/projects/mpich2/downloads/tarballs/mpich2-1.0.7rc1-win64-x86-64.msi)

Regards,
The MPICH2 Team

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Main changes in 1.0.7
=====================

  # PMI: Added support to use PMI Clique functionality for process 
managers that support it.

  # OVERALL: Added datatype free hooks to be used by devices independently.

  # OVERALL: Added device-specific timer support.

  # OVERALL: make uninstall works cleanly now, except for MPD installations.

  # ROMIO: Support to take hints from a config file

  # ROMIO: more tests and bug fixes for nonblocking I/O

  # SMPD: Singleton Init support.

  # WINDOWS: Fortran 90 support added.

  # SCTP: Added MPICH_SCTP_NAGLE_ON support.

  # MPE: Updated MPE logging API so that it is thread-safe (through 
global mutex). Updated all related documentation, e.g. man pages.

  # MPE: Added infrastructure to piggyback argument data to MPI states.

  # Many other bug fixes, memory leak fixes and code cleanup. A full 
list of changes is available using:
   svn log -r100:455 https://svn.mcs.anl.gov/repos/mpi/mpich2/trunk
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-- 
Pavan Balaji
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~balaji