[MPICH2-dev] New release of MPICH2 (1.0.5)

[Rajeev Thakur]

Dear all, 
         A new version of MPICH2, 1.0.5, has been released for both Unix and
Windows platforms. You can download it from
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/mpich2. We recommend you upgrade to this version
if you are running an older version of MPICH2 or MPICH-1. New features in
this release include:  

- A new ch3 channel for SCTP, implemented by Brad Penoff and Mike Tsai
(Univ. of British Columbia)
- Various bugs related to dynamic processes have been fixed
- Performance-related fixes have been added to derived datatypes and
collective communication
- Improvements to the Nemesis channel 
- Fixes to thread safety for the ch3:sock channel
- Many other bug fixes and code cleanup

Details are in the CHANGES file in the distribution. 

For those interested in details of the code changes, the CVS log summaries
are available at http://www.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/mpich2/mpich2_1_0_5changes.htm 

Regards, 
The MPICH2 Team