1. Supported platforms

The following Linux distributions are well-tested:

  • Debian 7 (Wheezy), 8 (Jessie), and 9 (Stretch)

  • Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr) and 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

2. OpenSRF 3.0.1

OpenSRF 3.0.1 was released on 25 May 2018 and fixes a number of bugs. All users of OpenSRF 3.0.0 are advised to upgrade as soon as possible.

The following bugs are fixed:

  • LP#1744158: If the WebSockets translator lost its XMPP connection, it could continue to accept requests but would never respond to them. Now, when a WS translator backend gets disconnected from XMPP, it will close the client connection and terminate.

  • LP#1746577: Under other conditions, a WebSockets translator backend that had lost its XMPP connection could busy-loop, uselessly consuming CPU. This no longer happens.

  • LP#1762815: This release Fixes an issue in the Perl client time zone handling that resulted in the server defaulting to UTC time instead of the server time zone when no time zone value was received from the client.

  • LP#1340892: opensrf.settings now properly ignores XML comments in opensrf.xml, thereby resolving an Evergreen bug where XML comments in the <marctemplates> section could break the ability to load MARC templates.

  • LP#1243841: A number of compilation warnings showing up on newer releases of Debian and Ubuntu are now resolved.

2.1. Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the following people who contributed to coding and testing for OpenSRF 3.0.1:

  • Galen Charlton

  • Bill Erickson

  • Chris Sharp

  • Jason Stephenson

3. OpenSRF 3.0.0

OpenSRF 3.0.0 was released on 2 October 2017. It adds support for Debian 9 (Stretch).

3.1. Upgrade Notes

OpenSRF 3.0 also changes how the shared libraries for services written in C are named. If upgrading from an earlier version of OpenSRF, opensrf.xml should be edited so that shared library file names listed in the <implementation> tag start with "lib". For example,

            <osrf.math>
                <language>C</language>
                <implementation>osrf_math.so</implementation>

should be changed to:

            <osrf.math>
                <language>C</language>
                <implementation>libosrf_math.so</implementation>

3.2. Note for Evergreen Users

OpenSRF 3.0.0 is the minimum version required to run Evergreen 3.0.

3.3. Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the following people who contributed to OpenSRF 3.0.0:

  • Galen Charlton

  • Ben Shum

  • Jason Stephenson