Latest release of The Server Framework: 6.5.8

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Version 6.5.8 of The Server Framework was released today.

This release contains one bug fix for a bug which has been present in The Server Framework since at least release 5.0 and one change to work around a bug in Windows 8 and Server 2012.

If you plan to use AcceptEx() on Windows 8 or Server 2012 or you have connections which run for a long period of time, use sequenced sockets and issue more than 2,147,483,647 writes on a socket then you need this release.

This release includes the following, see the release notes, here, for full details of all changes.

  • Changes to how CStreamSocketServerEx issues AcceptEx() calls to ensure that these calls are always made from an I/O thread. This is to help reduce the likely impact of the bug in Windows 8/Server 2012 with regard to the delay of AcceptEx() completions when the issuing thread is blocked in a synchronous ReadFile().
  • Bug fix to sequence writes, see here for more details. Due to a type size mismatch between IBuffer::SequenceNumber and the sequence numbers generated by CSequencedStreamSocket::SequenceData a write stall could occur when the sequence number that was being generated (a signed long) wrapped as the “next” sequence number in CInOrderBufferList was a IBuffer::SequenceNumber which was a size_t which wrapped far later. The buffer list would wait for buffers with sequence numbers which could never be generated.