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2353.0. "ODE V3.1 Upgrade Wednesday 6/26, 12-1 EDT" by AOSG::FILTER (Automatic Posting Software - mail to flume::puck) Mon Jun 24 1996 16:19

Date Of Receipt: 	21-JUN-1996 15:46:02.94
From: 	FLUME::jmf "Joshua M. Friedman OSF/UNIX SDE  21-Jun-1996 1545"
To: 	osf_developers@DEC:.zko.flume, osf_ode_admins@DEC:.zko.flume
CC: 	odehelp@DEC:.zko.flume, tea@DEC:.zko.flume, snow@DEC:.zko.flume,
	tresvik@DEC:.zko.flume, jproj@DEC:.zko.flume
Subj: 	ODE V3.1 Upgrade Wednesday 6/26, 12-1 EDT

Digital UNIX Developers and other users of ODE,

This coming Wednesday, June 26, we will be upgrading the DECode-II
tools in zk3 from V3.0 to V3.1; this will be during the lunch hour,
from 12-1 EDT.  This has been coordinated with the project teams.

During this time all Digital UNIX development, support, quality,
and documentation pools will be locked for bco, bsubmit, etc.  
This down-time will affect all ODE client systems at all sites.

The release notes for DECode-II V3.1 are available at:

    http://www.zso.dec.com/ode/ODE-release_notes.html

More details below...

Thank you very much.
			-Joshua Friedman, Digital UNIX Release Engineering


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Special Actions may be required as follows:

  > Users will need to exit and restart any authenticated "workon"
    sessions after the upgrade has completed.  Mail will be sent
    announcing the start and completion of the upgrade.

  > Shared Sandbox and other Pool Administrators will need to
    re-install ODE as described in detail below.

  > Client systems do not need to re-install ODE.


Note that other Digital UNIX development sites should plan to upgrade
soon; however there are no binary compatibility issues which require a
coordinated upgrade.  Some sites have already completed their upgrade.
For more information see:  http://www.zso.dec.com/ode/ODE-Update.html


Highlights of the upgrade:

  o "bmerge" will now keep an ancestry record with the file comments to
    assist in merge tracking.

  o "bcs -u -o -auto_out" will, no questions asked, unlock if needed (and
    not error if not needed) and outdate user branches without confirmation

  o Several commands (bco, bci, bcs, bmerge, undefunct) have a new
    option "-f filelist" to allow list-driven operations more easily

  o "bsubmit -l" is a new option which will automatically relink the
    individual file(s) after the submit completes.  This can also be put
    in your .sandboxrc file to always be enabled.

  o "revert" will now check and warn if the file in the pool has a
    different code body than the linked file which will replace it.

  o bug reporting is no longer done with "gen-ptt", but with "send-pr" or
    a web-based interface at this address.  Note "gen-ptt" will provide
    these pointers as well:

	http:/www.zso.dec.com/ode/ODE-Bugtrack.html


Shared Sandbox and other Pool Administrators:

    Shared sandbox and other DECode-II server administrators in zk3
    should stop, reinstall, and restart their servers, in order to pick
    up the updated version of ode_server3.0; this can be done at any
    time after the upgrade, as the old and new servers and clients are
    binary compatible with one another:

	# /usr/sde/ode3.0/install/ode stop_nicely
	# /usr/sde/ode3.0/install/ode install

Again note that client systems do not need to re-install ODE.

Thank you again...
			-Josh