I am pleased to announce the second beta releases of omniORB 4.0.0 and omniORBpy 2.0. omniORB is a robust, high performance CORBA ORB for C++. omniORBpy is a version for Python. They are freely available under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (for the libraries), and GNU General Public License (for the tools). For more information, see http://omniorb.sourceforge.net/ Highlights of the new features since omniORB 3.0 and omniORBpy 1: - Updated to CORBA 2.6. - Support for GIOP 1.1 and 1.2. - Wide string and codeset negotiation. - Unix domain and SSL transports. - Bidirectional GIOP. - Flexible thread pool mode. - PortableServer::Current. - Interceptors. - Fixed point. - Complete freeing of all heap allocations. - Efficient in-process calls between C++ and Python. - Python / C++ object reference translation API. - New comprehensive configuration mechanism. - Commercial support. See http://www.omniorb-support.com/ Release notes are available from http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=106616 and http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=106615 You can download the releases themselves via the release notes pages, or from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=51138 Please try out the betas and report any problems you encounter to the omniORB mailing list (see http://omniorb.sourceforge.net/list.html). The intention is to release a release candidate in around two weeks time, followed by a full release shortly afterwards. Enjoy, Duncan. -- -- Duncan Grisby -- -- duncan@grisby.org -- -- http://www.grisby.org --