TAO 1.2a patch5 Release Notes:
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ACE Changes:
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1) Modifications made to support Tornado 2.2 / VxWorks 5.5
2) Modifications made to support HPUX Itanium.
3) Modifications made to support Linux Itanium.
4) Modifications made to fix memory leaks in ACEXML Libraries.
5) Modifications made to fix improper usage while deleting memory in ACEXML 
   library.
6) Modifications made to MakeProjectCreator(MPC) to improve the processing time for generating 
   projects.
7) Changes to MakeProjectCreator(MPC) while processing IDL filenames on Windows.

TAO Changes:
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1) Changes made while merging DOC group BUG 1125 which fixes the problem 
   relating to ORB building up the stack when a reply is written.
2) Fixed the implementation of Transport while reading the message block 
   at the read pointer rather than write pointer.
3) Fixed the deadlock related stuff in "Transport_Cache_Manager" occured when 
   trying to gain reactor token and transport cache manager lock while purging 
   cache entries. This fix is a consequence of RT issue 850 and OCI Bugzilla 294.
4) Optimized the "pacing internal" which prevents dispatching events multiple
   times in Notification Services.
5) Fixed the bug while processing Multiple Endpoints with the URL style.
6) Code changes related to the implementation of reference counting in
   Asynch_Reply_Dispatcher.
7) Made code changes which gives flexibility for ORB to be a default ORB (or) otherwise.
8) Added Accessor methods to get the recv_buffer_size and the sent_byte_count 
   to get the number of bytes that are received and the bytes that are sent out    
   for a single invocation in Transport.
9) Changes relating to creation of queued messages using the new API  rather than 
   the set_heap_created old API in Transport class.
10) Fixed bugs relating to setter method in "Asynch_Reply_Dispatcher" which fixes 
   the problems that can occur while calling "duplicate". 

For more specific information, please refer the "TAO-1.2a_patches/readme.txt" which 
has specific instructions about how to install a patch, the files changed after 
TAO 1.2a patch4 etc.