3.02 release announcement

Jay Maynard

Dec 12, 2004

A lot of water has passed under the bridge since 3.01 was released just over
a year ago, and the Hercules development team wasn't idle. Version 3.02 is
now ready, and I think you'll be pleased with it.

What's new in release 3.02
Release date: 11 December 2004
Significant performance improvements (Jan Jaeger, Greg Smith)
SIE performance almost the same as native (Jan Jaeger)
SCSI tape support in Windows (David "Fish" Trout)
Mac OS X CTC networking support (Jay Maynard)
Suspend/resume facility (Greg Smith)
ASN-and-LX-Reuse Facility (Roger Bowler)
Enable or disable ASN-and-LX-reuse in config (Jan Jaeger, Ivan Warren)
Extended Translation Facility 3 (Bernard van der Helm)
DAT-enhancement facility (Roger Bowler)
Immediate CCWs now correctly handled when Suppress Incorrect Length
Indication is specified (Ivan Warren)
3270 option provided to control connection to group of devices (Ivan
Warren)
3270 connections can be limited by IP address (David "Fish" Trout)
Remaining 26 binary floating point instructions (Roger Bowler)
IPL CLear, System Reset, and System Reset Clear operator commands
(Ivan Warren)
Pentium 4 optimizations enabled in gcc (Ivan Warren)

Thanks as always to the many folks who have put in a lot of hard work to
make Hercules what it is today: the best open-source IBM emulator around.
(Yes, it's the only one. So what?) This goes not just for the developers
named above, but all of the folks who have helped with it. This means you,
everyone who has downloaded it and put it through its paces. Without your
suggestions, testing, complaints, and hand grenades, we wouldn't know what
to do.

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