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Noteworthy Changes for 2.4.0 (2023-09-27)

New Features

  • V2 Shared memory for remote service admin.
  • Zeroconf discovery of remote services.
  • Symbol visibility support: Bundle symbols are now hidden by default, except for the bundle activator.
  • Error injection library (for testing).
  • Coding convention documentation.
  • Celix error library for printing errors when no framework is available.
  • Scope-based Resource Management (RAII-light for C).
  • Support for uncompressed bundle deployment, which enables multiple frameworks to share the bundle resources by using unzipped bundle dirs instead of a zip files as BUNDLES arguments in add_celix_container.
  • Scheduled event support, so that (low-frequency / non IO blocking) events can be scheduled on the Apache Celix event thread.

Improvements

  • Support for Conan 2.
  • Support for uclibc (not tested in CI yet).
  • Support for C++14 in addition to C++17.
  • Deprecated sprintf usage; transitioned to snprintf or aprintf.
  • Refactored the bundle cache to support retention of unchanged bundles on disk.
  • Automatic scan for project build options using CMake.
  • Use of upstream civetweb dependency instead of embedded sources.
  • Applied attribute format for printf-like functions.
  • Removed the busy loop mechanism from the pubsub admin websocket.
  • Improved cleanup procedures during bundle uninstallation to conform to the OSGi specification.
  • Improved INSTALL_RPATH to use $ORIGIN during installation.
  • Corrected bundle update behavior when updating bundles from different sources.
  • Enhanced libcurl initialization procedures and made libcurl optional.

Fixes

  • Numerous minor fixes, especially concerning multi-threading issues and error handling.

Noteworthy changes for 2.3.0 (2022-07-10)

New Features

  • Support for Conan package manager
  • Async api to (un0)register services, track services, track bundles and create/remove components.
  • C++17 API.
  • Celix Promises (experimental)
  • Celix PushStreams (experimental)
  • C++ Remote Service Admin (experimental)
  • Refactored LogAdmin

Improvements

  • Build
    • multi build type support
  • Added celix_ api for
    • long and string hash map
    • shell command
    • logging
  • Added C++17 api for
    • BundleContext (service registration, service trackers, use services, bundle trackers)
    • BundleActivator
    • Framework
    • LogHelper
    • IShellCommand
    • Filter
    • Properties
    • Utils
  • Remote Services
    • Interceptors support
  • PubSub
    • Interceptors
    • Wire protocol service support
    • Refactored message serialization

Fixes

  • Too many to mention

Changes for 2.2.1 (2020-05-10)

Fixes

  • Fixes etcdlib CMake setup to that etcdlib can be built as a separate project

Noteworthy changes for 2.2.0 (2020-01-06)

New features:

  • PubSub TCP (donation)
  • PubSub Avro bin serializer
  • PubSub Websocket (donation)
  • HTTP Admin (donation)
  • Shell Web UI (using HTTP Admin)

Improvements

  • CELIX-438: Refactored celix api so that include files and symbols have a _celix “namespace”
  • CELIX-459: Adds PubSub health/usage monitoring
  • CELIX-467: Adds doxygen generation
  • Refactored etcdlib to supported multiple instances

Bugs

  • CELIX-410: Fixes issue with property loader duplicating spaces and tabs
  • CELIX-454: Fixed race condition in the etcd pubsub discovery
  • CELIX-460: Fixed issue with msg not found in pub/sub serializer map due to signed/unsigned difference
  • CELIX-466: Fixed race condition Race condition in adding/removing service listener hooks

Noteworthy changes for 2.1.0 (2018-01-24)

New Features:

  • CELIX-408: Adds support for generating runtime shell scripts so that multiple Celix containers and other executable can be run with a single command.
  • CELIX-418: Adds support for generating properties in the Celix container launcher.
  • CELIX-407: Adds support for serializers as a service for PubSub. This way PubSubAdmin are purely focused on transport techniques.
  • CELIX-401: Adds support for creating Celix docker images using a CMake function.
  • CELIX-397: Adds support for PubSub selection based on a match function. This way multiple PubSubAdmin can be active.
  • CELIX-389: Adds the PubSub implementation. A set of bundles which together operates as a service based publish subscribe technology agnostic abstraction.
  • CELIX-385: Adds etcdlib as library. This libray can be used to communicate with etcd using a C abstraction.
  • CELIX-370: Adds C++11 support by adding a C++ Dependency Manager library. This is moslty a header based library.

Improvements:

  • CELIX-415: Improves handling of ANSI control sequences to better support running in IDE’s.
  • CELIX-414: Improves support for running Celix container inside IDE’s by basicly handling Celix containers as add_executable CMake target.
  • CELIX-406: Improves handling of descriptor files, by allowing different directories for Remote Services and PubSub.
  • CELIX-399: Improves PubSub to use etcdlib instead of local copy of etcd.c file.
  • CELIX-396: Improves the ZMQ PubSub security so that enabling/disable of security can be done per topic.
  • CELIX-395: Improves Remote Service to use the etcdlib instead of a local etcd.c file.
  • CELIX-392: Removes the use of the deprecated readdir_r function.

Bugs:

  • CELIX-416: Fixes an issue for the Android build.
  • CELIX-410: Fixes an issue where spaces and tabs are duplicated when loading properties.
  • CELIX-405: Fixes an issue with crashes because of invalid DFI descriptors.
  • CELIX-404: Fixes an issue with crashes using the inspect shell command.
  • CELIX-403: Fixes an memory leak in the service tracker.
  • CELIX-400: Fixes an issue with private libraries being loaded twice.
  • CELIX-398: Fixes an issue with PubSub and multiple UDP connections.
  • CELIX-393: Fixes an issue with the add_bundle CMake function and using existing libaries.
  • CELIX-391: Fixes an issue with the utils_stringHash not genering unique (enough) hashes.
  • CELIX-390: Fixes an issue with cycle dependency between the Celix framework and Celix utils libraries.
  • CELIX-387: Fixes an issue with the travis build and OSX
  • CELIX-386: Fixes an issue with the C++ dependency manager and register multiple C++ services.

Changes for 2.0.0 (2016-10-26)

New Features

  • CELIX-77 Configuration Admin Implementation
  • CELIX-116 Event admin
  • CELIX-119 Remove apr usage from framework
  • CELIX-172 Bonjour Shell
  • CELIX-237 RSA with libffi
  • CELIX-269 New Dependency Manager
  • CELIX-370 Add C++ support

Improvements

  • CELIX-63 make cmake directory useable for custom bundle projects
  • CELIX-66 Refactor shell service struct
  • CELIX-90 add additional build options for RSA components
  • CELIX-111 Support multiple libraries
  • CELIX-115 logservice bundle entries list grows indefinitely
  • CELIX-118 Deployment Admin - Support auditlog of Apache ACE
  • CELIX-123 enable code coverage for utils_test
  • CELIX-125 CMakeCelix module
  • CELIX-134 Update source from incubator structure to TLP
  • CELIX-138 Parameterise launcher
  • CELIX-144 Document Developing Celix with Eclipse
  • CELIX-146 Replace printfs wit fw_log calls
  • CELIX-149 Add log_writer_syslog
  • CELIX-152 Added Discovery/ETCD support
  • CELIX-153 add cmake configuration options for rsa_bundles
  • CELIX-156 Enable all warnings
  • CELIX-158 RSA is unable to re-use already started proxy factory
  • CELIX-165 Add port collision auto-correction to RSA
  • CELIX-169 Add port collision auto-correction to discovery
  • CELIX-182 loghelper eases log_service tracking
  • CELIX-187 discovery_etcd: add watchindex, handle expire action
  • CELIX-193 support portable celix_thread_t initalization
  • CELIX-199 Code Coverage should be optional rather than required by cmake
  • CELIX-200 SEGFAULT occurs when remote services are closed
  • CELIX-216 Replace strtok with strtok_r
  • CELIX-230 Refactoring of the shell command service
  • CELIX-242 Fix Warnings
  • CELIX-245 Update civetweb to latest version
  • CELIX-246 enable Travis CI for Apache Celix
  • CELIX-247 Enable ANDROID support
  • CELIX-249 Refactor most char * usage to const char *
  • CELIX-251 missing includes in device access example
  • CELIX-255 Update default BUILD option
  • CELIX-258 framework uses dlopen/dlsym to set the bundleActivator
  • CELIX-259 dispatcherThread does not perform a graceful shutdown
  • CELIX-275 Can’t do mkstemp on root system (deploymentAdmin_download)
  • CELIX-278 Adding tags to ACE target through deployment admin
  • CELIX-284 Restrict export and imports based on properties
  • CELIX-285 Discovery SHM: remove obsolete jansson dependency
  • CELIX-295 Many compiling warnings in unit tests
  • CELIX-296 Framework unit tests improvement
  • CELIX-309 Make DFI available for common use
  • CELIX-317 Dependency Manager suspend state
  • CELIX-320 outdated utils tests (threads, hashmap)
  • CELIX-323 Version and version_range moved from framework to utils
  • CELIX-326 Add service version support to dependency manager
  • CELIX-327 Filter does not support greater than and lesser than operators
  • CELIX-328 Service version support for RSA DFI
  • CELIX-330 document using markdown
  • CELIX-333 integrate coverity scans
  • CELIX-335 Refactor deploying bundles with cmake
  • CELIX-339 celix_log_mock doesnt show logs to the user
  • CELIX-341 Fix coverity issues in Shell / Shell TUI
  • CELIX-348 The utils_stringHash does not generate unique hashes.
  • CELIX-352 RSA_DFI and embedded celix
  • CELIX-353 Make bundle context retrievable form dm component
  • CELIX-365 Refactor some usage of void* to const void*

Bugs

  • CELIX-104 deployment_admin bundle won’t start when missing properties
  • CELIX-105 Fixed array_list_test
  • CELIX-114 Potential deadlock in log_service bundle during stop
  • CELIX-122 missing dependency uuid
  • CELIX-124 Celix memory leaks fixing
  • CELIX-127 Makefiles not generated using CMake 3.0
  • CELIX-128 remote_shell port cannot be changed
  • CELIX-129 Update RSA to be compatible with the Amdatu RSA implementation
  • CELIX-130 Implement Configured Endpoint discovery compatible with Amdatu RSA
  • CELIX-136 contrib Configured endpoint discovery
  • CELIX-137 Possible concurrency issues in topology manager
  • CELIX-139 Update tests and mocks to latest CppUTest
  • CELIX-147 RSA_SHM: concurrency issue when client segfaults
  • CELIX-150 Topology Manager segfaults when RSA/bundle w/ exp. service stops in wrong order
  • CELIX-154 echo exampe not working
  • CELIX-155 Fix CMake warnings during configuration
  • CELIX-157 service_reference misses functions to get property keys and values
  • CELIX-159 PThread usage not correct for Linux
  • CELIX-161 newly added RSA cannot manage already exported/imported services
  • CELIX-162 Update encoding/decoding of replies.
  • CELIX-167 Update command to be able to pass a pointer (handle)
  • CELIX-168 discovery_etcd:Make root-path configurable
  • CELIX-170 Remote services can fail to restart when felix restarts
  • CELIX-173 stopping rsa_http bundle does not stop rsa webserver
  • CELIX-174 invalid bundle_context during fw shutdown
  • CELIX-175 segfault during shutdown when calculator is already stopped
  • CELIX-177 not all endpoints are unistalled when rsa_http bundle is stopped
  • CELIX-178 Shell_Tui bundle hangs on stop
  • CELIX-179 memory leak in rsa_http callback
  • CELIX-180 framework_tests do not compile
  • CELIX-181 Incorrect reply status when no data is returned on a remote call.
  • CELIX-185 Memory leaks in Discovery Endpoint Descriptor Reader
  • CELIX-186 deployment_admin segfaults while downloading bundle
  • CELIX-188 Add missing log_service headers to installations
  • CELIX-189 LogService segfaults when log message pointer is overwritten
  • CELIX-190 remote services memory leaks
  • CELIX-192 rsa_http: add locking
  • CELIX-194 Refactor RemoteService proxy factory
  • CELIX-195 SEGFAULT occurs when running a log command.
  • CELIX-197 insufficient memory allocated
  • CELIX-198 Logging can segfault for strings 512 characters or longer
  • CELIX-201 SEGFAULT occurs when restarting apache_celix_rs_topology_manager
  • CELIX-202 Not all components are disabled with a clean build
  • CELIX-205 RSA Discovery (Configured) bundle gets stuck
  • CELIX-213 SEGFAULT occurs due to memory access after memory is free’d
  • CELIX-215 curl_global_init() not called directly
  • CELIX-218 Memory leaks in service_registry.c
  • CELIX-219 Memory Leaks
  • CELIX-221 Deployment admin segfaults when deploying a bundle
  • CELIX-223 Celix crashes because of wrong bundle versions
  • CELIX-224 Wrong use of errno in launcher.c
  • CELIX-226 __unused atttibute does not work with Linux
  • CELIX-227 compile error under linux due to missing header include
  • CELIX-229 Make APR optional
  • CELIX-231 Missing log_helper creation in discovery_etcd
  • CELIX-238 Contributing page links incorrect
  • CELIX-239 TopologyManager does not maintain exportedServices
  • CELIX-240 RSA: deadlock when stopping
  • CELIX-241 remote_interface incorrect
  • CELIX-248 too many arguments for format
  • CELIX-250 config.h is not exported
  • CELIX-252 discovery_etcd cannot handle celix restarts
  • CELIX-253 Deployment admin does not always download the latest version from ACE
  • CELIX-254 Memory leakage in deployment_admin
  • CELIX-260 missing include in deployment admin
  • CELIX-262 Fix minor issues in hashMap/linkedList
  • CELIX-263 replace utils cunit tests w/ cpputest tests
  • CELIX-264 Missing strdup leads to invalid free
  • CELIX-270 Fix Code Coverage
  • CELIX-271 setup coveralls.io
  • CELIX-272 framework: improve locking / synchronization
  • CELIX-274 waitForShutdown issue when starting two embedded celix frameworks.
  • CELIX-279 Celix fails to compile w/ CMake 3.3
  • CELIX-280 deployment_admin misses proper shutdown functionality
  • CELIX-287 racecondition for framework event listener
  • CELIX-288 Archive directory not properly read
  • CELIX-289 Fix celix mocks
  • CELIX-290 Mock fixes, CMakelist fix, build warning fix
  • CELIX-292 Memory leak in refactored shell
  • CELIX-294 changed dfi library from static to shared
  • CELIX-298 Memory leaks in rsa_dfi
  • CELIX-300 Invalid read in serviceRegistry during framework_shutdown
  • CELIX-301 Memory leaks in rsa_shm
  • CELIX-302 Service Tracker Test error breaks the build
  • CELIX-304 Memory leaks in manifest parser, requirement, capability; out-of-date tests
  • CELIX-305 Memory leaks in RSA_SHM, RSA_DFI, RSA_HTTP
  • CELIX-306 Memory leaks in remote_proxy_factory, unit tests issues
  • CELIX-307 “service registration set properties” deadlocks
  • CELIX-308 Dependency Manager memory leaks
  • CELIX-310 “serviceRegistry_getRegisteredServices” deadlocks
  • CELIX-311 Framework Tests Build broken
  • CELIX-312 ServiceReference usage counter inconsistent state
  • CELIX-313 out of date/defunct tests
  • CELIX-316 Wrong conversion for ‘N’ type in json_serializer
  • CELIX-322 Memory leaks in resolver and framework tests
  • CELIX-324 Version support in dfi library
  • CELIX-325 Bundle test sporadicly fails
  • CELIX-329 framework “service_” tests are outdates, some small bugs in the sources
  • CELIX-331 test configuraiton needs update for newer CMake
  • CELIX-332 filter tests absent, small bugs in the source
  • CELIX-334 Race Condition in Topology Manager causes spurious segfaults
  • CELIX-336 resolver_test doesn’t compile
  • CELIX-343 configuration_unbind never called
  • CELIX-344 service tracker removes wrong service
  • CELIX-345 Typo in Dependency Manager interface
  • CELIX-346 celix-bootstrap problems
  • CELIX-347 Memory leaks in dm_service_dependency
  • CELIX-349 ServiceTracker update references list after invoking added callback
  • CELIX-350 shell_tui wrong handling service reference
  • CELIX-354 Coverity High Impact issues
  • CELIX-356 Import libraries not supported in revamped cmake commands
  • CELIX-357 Coverity Medium Impact issues
  • CELIX-358 Coverity Low+New High Impact issues
  • CELIX-359 Android build stopped working
  • CELIX-360 Coverity leftover issues
  • CELIX-361 etcd_watcher notifications loss when ETCD transaction rate is high
  • CELIX-363 Memory leak in DFI exportRegistration_create
  • CELIX-364 Incorrect destroy of dependency manager info struct
  • CELIX-366 eclipse launch file not correctly generated
  • CELIX-367 Memory leak in properties
  • CELIX-369 Tests fail with sanitizer
  • CELIX-371 Due to a fixed maximum length of lines in property file not all bundles are started
  • CELIX-372 serviceRegistry_clearReferencesFor warning info unclear
  • CELIX-373 Endpoint Server number is fixed and too low
  • CELIX-374 RTLD_NODELETE flag
  • CELIX-375 Topology manager deadlocks when interacts with dependency manager
  • CELIX-377 wrong rpath setup in CMake files
  • CELIX-378 Travis build errors on Max OSX
  • CELIX-379 Extend cmake fucntion add_deploy with an option to specify the launcher
  • CELIX-376 serviceRegistration sometimes paired to invalidated serviceReference
  • CELIX-380 PROPERTIES_FOR_EACH macro does not iterate over all keys
  • CELIX-381 Invoke set for dependency manager called before suspending the component