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Hercules: What's new</TITLE>
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<h1>What's new in Hercules</h1>
<hr noshade>
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<h2>What's new in release 4.00 (Hyperion)</h2>
<p>Release date: Not yet determined.
Find the current release candidate <a href="https://github.com/hercules-390/hyperion/releases/latest" target="_blank">here</a> (opens a new page).
<ul>
<li>Improved Telnet support that works with many standard clients.
<a href="https://hercules-390.github.io/html/telnet.html">Details here</a> (Fish (David B. Trout))</li>
<li>BRCTH, SSKE, STFL, STIDP, TRACE/TRACG, PFMF, PTF instruction fixes (Jan Jaeger, Mark Gaubatz, John P. Hartmann, Roger Bowler)</li>
<li>Improved CMPSC instruction implementation including CMPSC-Enhancement Facility support (Fish (David B. Trout))</li>
<li>Binary Floating-Point instructions now use John Hauser's IEEE-754 'softfloat' implementation (Fish (David B. Trout))</li>
<li>Driver for MPCPTP and/or MPCPTP6 devices (Ian Shorter)</li>
<li>QDIO/OSA support (Jan Jaeger, Harold Grovesteen, Ian Shorter, Fish (David B. Trout))</li>
<li>New CTCE driver providing "BCTC" support for Hercules SYSPLEX'ing via GRS (Peter J. Jansen)</li>
<li>IBM 3791 support (Max. H. Park)</li>
<li>Pre-configured tun device support (John P. Hartmann)</li>
<li>LCS zero MAC address fix (Fish (David B. Trout))</li>
<li>TCP_NODELAY and 3270 binary xfer IAC bug fix (Dr. Hans-Walter Latz)</li>
<li>Fix dasd PSF PRSD suborder 03 bug (Florian Bilek)</li>
<li>Increase dasdload ipl2 read command length to 32K (Laddie Hanus)</li>
<li>Various DASD utilities fixes and enhancements (Kevin Leonard)</li>
<li>3390 mod 54 fix (Jan Jaeger)</li>
<li>3990-3 LRE and VSAM Extended Format Dataset fix (Fish (David B. Trout))</li>
<li>Prevent duplicate EQID (Gordon Bonorchis)</li>
<li>FIX async comm lines bug impacting VM/ESA 1.5 (David Durgee)</li>
<li>I/O subsystem enhanced to more closely comply to architecture (Mark Gaubatz)
<li>Support for large tape block sizes up to 2 MB (Fish (David B. Trout))</li>
<li>Enhanced timer resolution (Mark Gaubatz, Fish (David B. Trout))</li>
<li>Integrated REXX support (Jan Jaeger, Enrico Sorichetti)</li>
<li>Selective enablement of architecural features (Jan Jaeger)</li>
<li>Message restructure (Bernard van der Helm, Paul Gorlinsky)</li>
<li>Allow regex replacement variables in HAO commands (Roger Bowler)</li>
<li>Hercules build quality assurance (Fish (David B. Trout) per Mark Gaubatz)</li>
<li>Report individual CPU percentages to external GUI (Fish (David B. Trout))</li>
<li>VS2012 and VS2013 support (RobiOneKenobi)</li>
</ul>
<br /><br />
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<h2>What's new in release 3.11</h2>
<p>Release date: 15 September 2014
<ul>
<li>Floating-Point-Extension Facility (Roger Bowler)
<li>Enhanced Channel-to-Channel Adapter via TCP/IP (Peter J. Jansen)
<li>Load/Store-on-Condition Facility corrections (Neale Ferguson)
<li>LCS corrections (Paul Gorlinsky, David "Fish" Trout, Ivan Warren)
<li>Floating-Point-Extension Facility corrections (Neale Ferguson)
<li>CMPSC corrections (Bernard van der Helm)
<li>Load sequential datasets from XMIT files (Roger Bowler)
<li>Eliminate compiler warnings for Linux and Mac (Roger Bowler)
</ul>
<p>Download
<a href="http://downloads.hercules-390.eu/hercules-3.11.tar.gz">hercules-3.11.tar.gz</a>
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<h2>What's new in release 3.10</h2>
<p>Release date: 1 February 2014
<ul>
<li>Fix incorrect PSW IA in SIE mode with PER (Ian Worthington)
<li>Corrections to build procedures (Mike Frysinger, Dan Horak)
<li>Fixes for Mac OS X (Butch Anton, Adam Vandenberg, Enrico Sorichetti)
<li>Configuration topology facility fixes (Paolo Giacobbis)
<li>Convert BFP instructions to use SoftFloat package (Roger Bowler)
<li>Preliminary support for 2GB page frames (Roger Bowler)
<li>PFMF fixes (John P. Hartmann)
<li>CMPSC corrections (Bernard van der Helm)
<li>dasdls enhancements (Chris Cheney)
</ul>
<p>Download:
<a href="http://downloads.hercules-390.eu/hercules-3.10.tar.gz">hercules-3.10.tar.gz</a>
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<h2>What's new in release 3.09</h2>
<p>Release date: 15 July 2013
<ul>
<li>Allow regex replacement variables in HAO commands (Roger Bowler)
<li>Prevent duplicate EQID (Gordon Bonorchis)
<li>Permit concurrent read access to printer and punch files (Roger Bowler)
<li>DFP zoned-conversion facility (Roger Bowler)
<li>Execution-hint facility (Roger Bowler)
<li>Miscellaneous-instruction-extensions facility (Roger Bowler)
<li>Load-and-trap facility (Roger Bowler)
<li>Fix for VSAM Extended Format (David "Fish" Trout)
<li>APL\360 2741 patch (Max H. Parke)
<li>Fix interval timer repeating interrupt (Ivan Warren, Kevin Leonard)
<li>Corrections to build procedures (Mike Frysinger, Dan Horak)
<li>Miscellaneous bug fixes (Roger Bowler)
</ul>
<p>Download:
<a href="http://downloads.hercules-390.eu/hercules-3.09.tar.gz">hercules-3.09.tar.gz</a>
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<h2>What's new in release 3.08</h2>
<p>Release date: 8 December 2012
<ul>
<li>1403 and 3211 FCB support (Enrico Sorichetti)
<li>Shutdown on SIGTERM (Frans Pop)
<li>Disable close-window button (Paul Gorlinsky)
<li>Allow larger IPL text (Laddie Hanus)
<li>Drop support for Cygwin, Win98, WinNT, Win2000 (Roger Bowler)
<li>Windows shutdown handlers (Paul Gorlinsky)
<li>Dynamically loadable instructions (Jan Jaeger)
<li>Additional codepages (Kevin Leonard)
<li>Load/Store-on-Condition Facility (Roger Bowler)
<li>Distinct-Operands Facility (Roger Bowler)
<li>Population-Count Facility (Roger Bowler)
<li>High-Word Facility (Roger Bowler)
<li>Message Security Assist Extensions 3 and 4 (Bernard van der Helm)
<li>Interlocked-Access Facility (Roger Bowler)
<li>CMPSC-Enhancement Facility (Bernard van der Helm)
<li>Fast-BCR-Serialization Facility (Roger Bowler)
<li>Reset-Reference-Bits-Multiple Facility (Jan Jaeger)
<li>Access-Exception-Fetch/Store-Indication Facility (Roger Bowler)
<li>Enhanced-Monitor Facility (Jan Jaeger)
<li>Load-Program-Parameter Facility (Paul Gorlinsky)
<li>IPTE-Range Facility (Jan Jaeger)
<li>Enhanced-DAT Facility (Jan Jaeger)
<li>Increase CKD_MAXFILES from 4 to 27 for 3390-27 and -54 (Paul Gorlinsky)
<li>CKD read attention message command (Florian Bilek)
<li>Support 128 CPUs on 64-bit Linux (Jan Jaeger)
<li>Issue Hercules commands via HTTP (Robert Hodge)
<li>Compression performance enhancements (Bernard van der Helm)
<li>Compression bug fixes (Bernard van der Helm, John P. Hartmann)
<li>Crypto bug fixes (Bernard van der Helm)
<li>Hexadecimal floating-point bug fixes (Andy Polyakov)
<li>SCSI tape enhancements and bug fixes (David "Fish" Trout)
<li>3420 sense code corrections for MTS (Harold Grovesteen)
<li>Prevent multiple instances opening same output file under Windows (David "Fish" Trout)
<li>2703 and 3705 fixes and 3791 support (Max H. Parke, Juergen Winkelmann)
<li>Enable GUI support as default for all platforms (Jacob Dekel)
<li>Miscellaneous bug fixes (Paul Gorlinsky, Ivan Warren, David "Fish" Trout, Jan Jaeger,
Bernard van der Helm, Roger Bowler, Kevin Leonard, Ian Shorter, John P. Hartmann)
</ul>
<p>Download:
<a href="http://downloads.hercules-390.eu/hercules-3.08.tar.gz">hercules-3.08.tar.gz</a>
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<h2>What's new in release 3.07</h2>
<p>Release date: 10 March 2010
<ul>
<li>Fast Synchronous Data Mover Facility (Guy Desbiens)
<li>Diagnose 210, 250, 260 (Harold Grovesteen)
<li>Extended Diagnose 204 feature (Jan Jaeger)
<li>Complete Diagnose 24 (Harold Grovesteen)
<li>Configuration-Topology Facility (Fish)
<li>HFP-Unnormalized-Extensions Facility (Harold Grovesteen)
<li>CMPSC performance improvements (Bernard van der Helm)
<li>uptime command (Fish)
<li>Raise XPNDSIZE limit to 1048576MB (Roger Bowler)
<li>MAXCPU and LPARNUM configuration statements (Roger Bowler)
<li>Add capacity model identifiers to MODEL config statement (Roger Bowler)
<li>SCLPROOT configuration statement (Jan Jaeger)
<li>Add "noclear" option to printer and card punch devices (Jay Maynard)
<li>Socket printer support (Fish)
<li>3705 SNA device support (Max H. Parke)
<li>TTY and 2741 support for 2703 (Max H. Parke)
<li>Tracing enhancements (Jan Jaeger)
<li>Allow configure --enable-external-gui for Unix builds
<li>Enable tun/tap emulation for 64-bit Windows builds (Ivan Warren)
<li>64-bit Windows support (Roger Bowler)
<li>Raise MAX_CPU_ENGINES limit to 64 (Roger Bowler, Ivan Warren)
<li>Numerous bug fixes (Ivan Warren, Fish, Jan Jaeger, Bernard van der Helm,
Roger Bowler, Jay Maynard)
</ul>
<p>Download:
<a href="http://www.hercules-390.org/hercules-3.07.tar.gz">hercules-3.07.tar.gz</a>
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<h2>What's new in release 3.06</h2>
<p>Release date: 11 January 2009
<ul>
<li>Integrated 3270 (SYSG) console support (Roger Bowler, Jan Jaeger)
<li>HMC DVD-RAM read/write support (Jan Jaeger)
<li>64-bit native version now supported on Mac OS X (Jay Maynard)
<li>Ability to specify IFL, zIIP, and zAAP engine types (Roger Bowler, Jan
Jaeger, Ivan Warren)
<li>Console-like message handling (David "Fish" Trout, Bernard van der Helm)
<li>Tape automount CCW support (David "Fish" Trout)
<li>CKD Locate Record Extended CCW (Greg Smith)
<li>Support for FLEX-ES FakeTape tape images (David "Fish" Trout; FLEX-ES and
FakeTape are trademarks of Fundamental Software, Inc.)
<li>More complete 3490 and 3590 tape support (David "Fish" Trout)
<li>Solaris build support (Jeff Savit)
<li>FreeBSD build support (Bjoern A. Zeeb)
<li>Panel enhancements:
<ul>
<li>Display virtual storage in primary, secondary, and home space (Paul Leisy)
<li>Display and modify PSW fields by panel command (Roger Bowler)
<li>Modify control registers by panel command (Roger Bowler)
<li>Specify IPL parameter by PARM operand (Ivan Warren)
<li>New panel commands: automount, cmdtgt, ctc, herc, msghld, pscp, scp,
sfk (David "Fish" Trout, Bernard van der Helm)
</ul>
<li>LEGACYSENSEID configuration statement (Ivan Warren)
<li>New instruction feature support (introduced with System z10):
<ul>
<li>Parsing-Enhancement Facility (Bernard van der Helm)
<li>Message-Security-Assist Extension 2 (Bernard van der Helm)
<li>General-Instructions-Extension Facility (Roger Bowler, Jan Jaeger)
<li>Execute-Extensions Facility (Bernard van der Helm)
<li>Move-with-Optional-Specifications Facility (Roger Bowler)
<li>Compare-and-Swap-and-Store Facility 2 (Ivan Warren)
</ul>
<li>Many emulation fixes (Roger Bowler, Jan Jaeger, Ivan Warren, David
"Fish" Trout, Greg Smith, Paul Leisy, Jay Maynard, Bernard van der Helm,
Kevin Leonard, Tony Harminc)
</ul>
<p>Download:
<a href="http://www.hercules-390.org/hercules-3.06.tar.gz">hercules-3.06.tar.gz</a>
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<h2>What's new in release 3.05</h2>
<p>Release date: 23 June 2007
<ul>
<li>Prebuilt Cygwin binary no longer supplied; building Cygwin version from
source still supported (Jay Maynard)
<li>New system features: Compare-and-Swap-and-Store, Conditional SSKE, Decimal
Floating Point, Floating Point Support Enhancement (Roger Bowler)
<li>Extract CPU Time Facility (Jan Jaeger)
<li>Multiple Logical Channel Subsystems Facility (Jan Jaeger, Ivan Warren)
<li>3590 tape support (David "Fish" Trout)
<li>3990-6 control unit and ECKD support (Greg Smith)
<li>Many performance improvements (Greg Smith, Ivan Warren, Jan Jaeger)
<li>Many emulation fixes (Greg Smith, Roger Bowler, Ivan Warren, David
"Fish" Trout, Kevin Leonard, Peter Coghlan)
<li>Major SCSI tape fixes (David "Fish" Trout)
<li>Added floating point instructions CGER, CGDR and CGXR (Bernard van der
Helm)
<li>Address range options for instruction trace and step (Greg Smith)
<li>Update gpr registers via panel command (David "Fish" Trout)
<li>Console connection keepalive (David "Fish" Trout)
<li>Customizable 3270 connection screen (Ivan Warren)
<li>dasdconv quiet and stdin options (Roger Bowler)
<li>Hercules Automatic Operator (Bernard van der Helm, David "Fish" Trout)
<li>Enhanced symbol substitution (Leland Lucius, Enrico Sorichetti, David "Fish" Trout)
<li>Miscellaneous new panel commands: qd (Greg Smith), fpc, traceopt (Roger
Bowler), logopt (Kevin Leonard), cd, pwd, timerint, defsym (David "Fish" Trout)
</ul>
<p>Download:
<a href="http://www.hercules-390.org/hercules-3.05.tar.gz">hercules-3.05.tar.gz</a>
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<h2>What's new in release 3.04.1</h2>
<p>Release date: 25 March 2006
<ul>
<li>Fix to allow building for Intel-based Mac OS X (Jay Maynard)
<br>Note: This version only applies to the Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) platform.
Version 3.04 is current for all other platforms.
</ul>
<p>Download:
<a href="http://www.hercules-390.org/hercules-3.04.1.tar.gz">hercules-3.04.1.tar.gz</a>
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<h2>What's new in release 3.04</h2>
<p>Release date: 24 February 2006
<ul>
<li>CCKD garbage collection fix (Greg Smith)
<li>Reworked timing functions (Jan Jaeger)
<li>Codepage 1047 conversion tables (Kevin Leonard)
<li>Fixed off-by-one-day bug with SYSEPOCH other than 1900; added new config
parameter, YROFFSET, and added warning if SYSEPOCH is not 1900 or 1960 (Jay
Maynard, Jan Jaeger)
<li>New 2305 CKD disk emulation (Jay Maynard)
<li>Added floating point instructions CEGR, CDGR and CXGR (Bernard van der
Helm)
<li>Added support for cgi-bin dynamic modules (David "Fish" Trout)
<li>Instruction fixes: PLO, CVB, CXFBR, CXGBR (Bernard van der Helm, David
"Fish" Trout, Greg Smith, Pasi Pirhonen)
<li>Fix for Windows ..\relative path dasd files (David "Fish" Trout)
</ul>
<p>Download:
<a href="http://www.hercules-390.org/hercules-3.04.tar.gz">hercules-3.04.tar.gz</a>
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<h2>What's new in release 3.03.1</h2>
<p>Release date: 30 December 2005
<ul>
<li>Fix translation exception bug that was causing some Linux kernels to
panic (Fabrizio Calabretta, Greg Smith, Ivan Warren)
<li>TOD Clock-Steering Facility (Jan Jaeger, Bernard van der Helm)
<li>Fix bug in shadow file filename processing on native Windows (David
"Fish" Trout)
<li>Performance improvements in TM instruction family (Bernard van der Helm)
<li>Support for Linux zipl LOADPARM of PROMPT (Jan Jaeger)
</ul>
<p>Download:
<a href="http://www.hercules-390.org/hercules-3.03.1.tar.gz">hercules-3.03.1.tar.gz</a>
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<h2>What's new in release 3.03</h2>
<p>Release date: 20 December 2005
<ul>
<li>Native Windows version no longer requires Cygwin (David "Fish" Trout,
Roger Bowler, Ivan Warren)
<li>SMP host integrity fixes (Greg Smith, David "Fish" Trout, Bob Deblier)
<li>ALS5, z9 and other architectural enhancements (Roger Bowler, Bernard van
der Helm, Jan Jaeger, David "Fish" Trout)
<li>Restructured cryptographic support no longer depends on libgcrypt
(Bernard van der Helm, Roger Bowler, Ivan Warren)
<li>Support emulation of up to 32 CPUs; maximum without special build
options now 8 (Ivan Warren)
<li>Enhanced semigraphical control panel now uses all of larger console
windows (Greg Smith, David "Fish" Trout)
<li>Many emulation fixes (Roger Bowler, Jan Jaeger, Bernard van der Helm,
David "Fish" Trout, Greg Smith, Ivan Warren, Andy Styles, John Decker)
<li>CMPSC fixes now produce identical results with real systems (Jacques
Dilbert, Bernard van der Helm)
<li>Integrated 1052-C / 3215-C console support (Jan Jaeger)
<li>tapecopy support for writing as well as reading tapes (Jay Maynard)
</ul>
<p>Download:
<a href="http://www.hercules-390.org/hercules-3.03.tar.gz">hercules-3.03.tar.gz</a>
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<h2>What's new in release 3.02</h2>
<p>Release date: 11 December 2004
<ul>
<li>Significant performance improvements (Jan Jaeger, Greg Smith, Gabor Hoffer)
<li>SIE performance almost the same as native (Jan Jaeger, Gabor Hoffer)
<li>SCSI tape support in Windows (David "Fish" Trout)
<li>Mac OS X CTC networking support (Jay Maynard)
<li>Suspend/resume facility (Greg Smith)
<li>ASN-and-LX-Reuse Facility (Roger Bowler)
<li>Enable or disable ASN-and-LX-reuse in config (Jan Jaeger, Ivan Warren)
<li>Extended Translation Facility 3 (Bernard van der Helm)
<li>DAT-enhancement facility (Roger Bowler)
<li>Immediate CCWs now correctly handled when Suppress Incorrect Length
Indication is specified (Ivan Warren)
<li>3270 option provided to control connection to group of devices (Ivan
Warren)
<li>3270 connections can be limited by IP address (David "Fish" Trout)
<li>Remaining 26 binary floating point instructions (Roger Bowler)
<li>IPL CLear, System Reset, and System Reset Clear operator commands (Ivan
Warren)
<li>Pentium 4 optimizations enabled in gcc (Ivan Warren)
</ul>
<p>Download:
<a href="http://www.hercules-390.org/hercules-3.02.tar.gz">hercules-3.02.tar.gz</a>
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<h2>What's new in release 3.01</h2>
<p>Release date: 30 November 2003
<ul>
<li>Bypass gcc 2.96 optimizer bug that caused incorrect instruction
execution (Ivan Warren)
<li>Added command-line control panel command history (Martin Gasparovic,
Volker Bandke)
<li>Message Security Assist (Bernard van der Helm, Jan Jaeger)
<li>Fixed device interrupt pending on IPL that caused OS/360 to have to be
IPLed twice (David "Fish" Trout, Greg Smith)
<li>Added pthreads trace function for debugging (Greg Smith)
<li>Fish threads code rewritten, closer to POSIX thread functionality while
still performing better (David "Fish" Trout)
<li>Fixed incompatibility with Windows NT telnet client (Greg Price, David
"Fish" Trout)
<li>Performance and integrity enhancements for RS instructions (Greg Smith)
</ul>
<p>Download:
<a href="http://www.hercules-390.org/hercules-3.01.tar.gz">hercules-3.01.tar.gz</a>
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<h2>What's new in release 3.00</h2>
<p>Release date: 2 October 2003
<ul>
<li>Dynamically loaded module support for devices, instructions, and
operator console panels (Jan Jaeger, David "Fish" Trout, Ivan Warren)
<li>Shared and remote DASD support (Greg Smith)
<li>z990 (ALS4) instruction support (Roger Bowler, Jan Jaeger, Bernard van
der Helm)
<li>HFP Multiply-Add/Subtract Facility (Roger Bowler)
<li>Long Displacement Facility (Roger Bowler)
<li>Simplified network adapter specifications (David "Fish" Trout, Jim
Pierson)
<li>New device emulations: 2703, 3410, 3490, 9347 (Ivan Warren)
<li>ECPS:VM support (Ivan Warren)
<li>Reworked process priority handling (Mark Gaubatz)
<li>Greatly improved interval timer resolution (Mark Gaubatz)
<li>Internal consistency checking improvvements (Greg Smith)
<li>Corrected 3270 session disconnect processing (Ivan Warren)
<li>Instruction disassembler in control panel (Jan Jaeger)
<li>Tape read backward fixes (Jay Jaeger)
<li>Fix for double memory consumption bug on Windows (Mark D., David
"Fish" Trout)
<li>OMA tape processing fixes (Ivan Warren)
<li>Message logging restructuring (Jan Jaeger, David "Fish" Trout)
<li>S/370 I/O race condition fixes (Victor Shkamerda, Greg Smith)
<li>Manual pages for some commands (Jim Morrison)
</ul>
<p>Download:
<a href="http://www.hercules-390.org/hercules-3.00.tar.gz">hercules-3.00.tar.gz</a>
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<h2>What's new in release 2.17.1</h2>
<p>Release date: 12 February 2003
<ul>
<li>Corrected RPM installed files permissions (John Summerfield)
<li>Corrected dasdload verbosity level (Jay Maynard)
<li>Corrected card reader eof/intrq option handling, added * to designate
no file loaded (Jay Maynard)
<li>Correct SLB instruction condition code (Jan Jaeger)
<li>Fix dasdutil.c track conversion function (Jim Morrison)
</ul>
<p>Download:
<a href="http://www.hercules-390.org/hercules-2.17.1.tar.gz">hercules-2.17.1.tar.gz</a>
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<h2>What's new in release 2.17</h2>
<p>Release date: 1 February 2003
<ul>
<li>Restructured DASD subsystem: better use of memory,
compressed FBA support, framework for shared DASD (Greg Smith)
<li>New dasdcopy utility replaces ckd2cckd and cckd2ckd, and adds
compressed FBA support (Greg Smith)
<li>Native support for Mac OS X 10.2 and above (Paul Scott)
<li>Reworked CTC and LCS emulation (Jim Pierson)
<li>SMP host integrity fixes (Greg Smith and Jan Jaeger)
<li>Fixes for compile errors with gcc 3.x (Greg Smith and David "Fish" Trout)
<li>S/370 dual address space and MVS assist fixes (Jan Jaeger)
<li>Renumbered all messages to consistent format, removed duplicate
numbers, and began message documentation (Jay Maynard)
<li>Added options for 1052/3215 consoles and card readers (Jay Maynard)
<li>Numerous instruction and I/O emulation fixes (Greg
Smith, Jan Jaeger, Juergen Dobrinski, Bernard van der Helm,
Andy Norrie, and David "Fish" Trout)
</ul>
<p>Download:
<a href="http://www.hercules-390.org/hercules-2.17.tar.gz">hercules-2.17.tar.gz</a>
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<h2>What's new in release 2.16.5</h2>
<p>Release date: 8 July 2002
<ul>
<li>Correct serious CCKD image file corruption error (Greg Smith)
<li>Allow tape files to be opened for input if on CD-ROM (Volker Bandke)
</ul>
<p>Download:
<a href="http://www.hercules-390.org/hercules-2.16.5.tar.gz">hercules-2.16.5.tar.gz</a>
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<h2>What's new in release 2.16.4</h2>
<p>Release date: 3 July 2002
<ul>
<li>Read backward support for emulated tape (Volker Bandke)
<li>Added 9313, 9332, and 9335 to list of supported devices (Tomas Masek)
</ul>
<p>Download:
<a href="http://www.hercules-390.org/hercules-2.16.4.tar.gz">hercules-2.16.4.tar.gz</a>
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<h2>What's new in release 2.16.3</h2>
<p>Release date: 2 July 2002
<ul>
<li>CTC fix for TurboLinux bug (Jim Pierson)
<li>3287 printer support via TN3270 (Tomas Masek)
<li>S/370 extended memory fixes (Tomas Masek)
<li>ctcadpt.c compilation fix for FreeBSD (Mark Szlaga)
<li>Fixed 3270 ERASE ALL UNPROTECTED command to not count data read
(Tomas Fott)
<li>Fixes to ckdtab in dasdtab.c (Greg Smith)
<li>Retrofitted cckd chkdsk fixes/enhancements (Greg Smith)
<li>FBA fixes contributed by Tomas Masek (Greg Smith)
<li>Compatibility fixes for cckd and 2.17 (Greg Smith)
</ul>
<p>Download:
<a href="http://www.hercules-390.org/hercules-2.16.3.tar.gz">hercules-2.16.3.tar.gz</a>
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<h2>What's new in release 2.16.2</h2>
<p>Release date: 20 May 2002
<ul>
<li>Fixed 3350 dasdtab entry (Greg Smith)
<li>Fixed 370 interval timer error (Valery Pogonchenko)
<li>Control panel attach command bug fix (David "Fish" Trout)
</ul>
<p>Download:
<a href="http://www.hercules-390.org/hercules-2.16.2.tar.gz">hercules-2.16.2.tar.gz</a>
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<h2>What's new in release 2.16.1</h2>
<p>Release date: 4 May 2002
<ul>
<li>fthreads locking fixes (David "Fish" Trout)
<li>dasdload bug fix (Greg Smith)
<li>FBA dasd devices allow any size disk (Jay Maynard)
<li>Control panel attach command bug fix (Kris Van Hees)
<li>Windows versions (finally) accessible from main page (Jay Maynard)
</ul>
<p>Download:
<a href="http://www.hercules-390.org/hercules-2.16.1.tar.gz">hercules-2.16.1.tar.gz</a>
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<h2>What's new in release 2.16</h2>
<p>Release date: 20 April 2002
<ul>
<li>PER support (Jan Jaeger, Paul Leisy)
<li>S/370 multiprocessor support (Jan Jaeger)
<li>Licensed software restriction (Jan Jaeger, Jay Maynard)
<li>Performance mods (Gabor Hoffer, Juergen Dobrinski, Greg Smith, and Paul
Leisy)
<li>Interrupt subclass priorities (Greg Smith)
<li>dasdcat program (Malcolm Beattie, Roger Bowler)
<li>Updated TCP/IP documentation (Roger Bowler)
<li>CTCI support for Windows (David "Fish" Trout)
<li>Print to unix pipe (Roger Bowler)
<li>Preliminary Lan Channel Station (LCS) support
<li>HTTP server (Jan Jaeger)
<li>Various fixes (as recorded in CHANGES) (Paul Leisy, Matt Zimmerman,
Greg Smith, Volker Bandke, Bernard van der Helm, David "Fish" Trout)
</ul>
<p>Download:
<a href="http://www.hercules-390.org/hercules-2.16.tar.gz">hercules-2.16.tar.gz</a>
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<h2>What's new in release 2.15</h2>
<p>Release date: 04 December 2001
<ul>
<li> Autoconf added to ease portability (Matt Zimmerman, Fritz Elfert,
Willem Konynenberg)
<li> Numerous instruction fixes (Paul Leisy)
<li> TUN/TAP support for Linux kernels beyond 2.4.6 (Matt Zimmerman)
<li> Timer fixes (Greg Smith)
<li> Synchronous I/O (Greg Smith)
<li> Support for IPL from CD-ROMs as with HMC (Jan Jaeger)
<li> CTC hang at shutdown fixed (Jan Jaeger)
<li> CTC TCP/IP now works with VM/ESA (Kris Van Hees)
<li> Compressed CKD endianness and RAS fixes (Greg Smith)
<li> Hot reader support (David "Fish" Trout)
<li> Machine checks now reported for host exceptions, loops, and wait states
(Jan Jaeger)
</ul>
<p>Download:
<a href="http://www.hercules-390.org/hercules-2.15.tar.gz">hercules-2.15.tar.gz</a>
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<h2>(There was no release 2.14)</h2>
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<h2>What's new in release 2.13</h2>
<p>Release date: 05 July 2001
<ul>
<li>Restrict TODEPOCH to 1900, 1928, 1960, 1970, or 1988, and
correct offset calculation (Michael Koehne)
<li>HET unmount option (Michael Koehne)
<li>quiet command (Michael Koehne)
<li>Panel instruction disassembly (Jan Jaeger)
<li>CMPSC corrections (Bernard van der Helm)
<li>CTCT CTC over TCP/IP (Vic Cross)
<li>Sundry instruction and channel fixes (Jan Jaeger)
<li>Numerous instruction fixes (Paul Leisy)
<li>CKD trace command (Valery Pogonchenko)
<li>Performance enhancements (Juergen Dobrinski)
<li>CGEBR/CGDBR instructions (Jan Jaeger)
<li>CEGBR/CDGBR instructions (Kris Van Hees)
<li>CKD 9345 support (Greg Smith)
<li>Storage Key Assist (Jan Jaeger)
<li>Move Page Facility 2 (Jan Jaeger)
</ul>
<p>Download:
<a href="http://www.hercules-390.org/hercules-2.13.tar.gz">hercules-2.13.tar.gz</a>
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<h2>What's new in release 2.12</h2>
<p>Release date: 04 May 2001
<ul>
<li>Numerous instruction fixes (Paul Leisy, Jan Jaeger,
Peter Stammbach, Roger Bowler)
<li>FBA and CKD read-only support (Greg Smith)
<li>Enable ISKE/RRBE/SSKE in S/370 mode (Valery Pogonchenko)
<li>CCKD corrections (Greg Smith)
<li>CMPSC fixes for expansion (Greg Smith)
<li>Correct prefix alignment for ESA/390 guest in 64 bit mode SIE (Jan Jaeger)
<li>Card reader multiple files and EBCDIC autopad support
<li>Support for built-in TUN driver of Linux kernel 2.4.x
<li>Device I/O thread throttling (Greg Smith, Fish)
<li>Small optimization of vstore/vfetch and TPI (Jan Jaeger)
<li>Sense/Set Path Group ID for DASD (Jan Jaeger)
<li>Dynamic device threads (Jan Jaeger)
<li>Fast interrupt processing for MCK and PER (Jan Jaeger)
<li>Allow HET files to reside on read-only media (Leland Lucius)
<li>Utilities display versioning and copyright info (Greg Smith)
<li>Present device end on terminating console session (Jan Jaeger)
<li>sh panel command (Bernard van der Helm)
<li>9221 power-off diagnose (Jan Jaeger)
<li>Debug format enhancements (Peter Stammbach)
<li>Fix for device threads (Juergen Dobrinski)
<li>Sundry new ESAME instructions and corrections (Roger Bowler, Jan Jaeger)
<li>Improved interrupt processing (Valery Pogonchenko)
<li>Incorrect-Length-Indication-Suppression facility (Jan Jaeger)
<li>S/370 interval timer fixes (Mark Gaubatz)
<li>64-bit Interpretive Execution (Jan Jaeger)
<li>IEEE floating point (Willem Konynenberg)
<li>64-bit panel updates (Roger Bowler)
<li>LPM fixes and display subchannel command (Nobumichi Kozawa)
<li>Fix amode64 in load_psw (Ulrich Weigand)
<li>Multiply Logical instructions (Vic Cross)
<li>Environment variables to override filenames
of hercules.rc hercules.cnf and hercifc (Jan Jaeger)
<li>Floating point enhancements (Roger Bowler, Jan Jaeger)
<li>Country codepage tables (Roger Bowler)
</ul>
<p>Download:
<a href="http://www.hercules-390.org/hercules-2.12.tar.gz">hercules-2.12.tar.gz</a>
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<h2>What's new in release 2.11</h2>
<p>Release date: 09 February 2001
<ul>
<li>Sundry new ESAME instructions and corrections (Jan Jaeger)
<li>Panel display instruction operands (Roger Bowler)
<li>TRAP and RP instructions (Jan Jaeger)
<li>TP instruction (Roger Bowler)
<li>Tape data chaining patch (Brandon Hill)
<li>Bypass Cygwin stack problem (Greg Smith)
<li>Fixes for Windows port (Volker Bandke)
<li>SSK/ISK/RRB fix for 2K storage keys (Valery Pogonchenko, Jan Jaeger)
<li>Extended Translation Facility 2 (Roger Bowler)
<li>Divide Logical instructions (Vic Cross)
</ul>
<p>Download:
<a href="http://www.hercules-390.org/hercules-2.11.tar.gz">hercules-2.11.tar.gz</a>
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<h2>What's new in release 2.10</h2>
<p>Release date: 02 February 2001
<ul>
<li>z/Architecture support (Jan Jaeger)
<li>TUN/TAP support for CTC (Roger Bowler)
<li>OSTAILOR VSE option (Roger Bowler)
<li>2K/4K storage key support (Jan Jaeger)
<li>Fully functional CMPSC instruction (Bernard van der Helm)
<li>Fix read-only AWSTAPE (Roger Bowler)
<li>Sundry new ESAME instructions (Jan Jaeger, Roger Bowler)
<li>Format-2 2K/4K IDAW (Roger Bowler)
<li>ESAME 5-level DAT (Roger Bowler)
<li>ESAME ASN authorization and ALET translation (Roger Bowler)
<li>ESAME linkage-stack instructions (Roger Bowler)
<li>ESAME subspace replacement (Roger Bowler)
<li>ESAME DUCT format changes (Roger Bowler)
<li>Unloaded tape drive support (Brandon Hill)
<li>Extended floating point (Peter Kuschnerus)
<li>Divide Single instructions (Jan Jaeger)
<li>EPSW instruction (Roger Bowler)
<li>Compressed CKD updates (Greg Smith)
<li>Timer update correction (Valery Pogonchenko)
<li>Fix MVCLE instruction (Jan Jaeger)
<li>Interval Timer fix (Bob Abeles)
</ul>
<p>Download:
<a href="http://www.hercules-390.org/hercules-2.10.tar.gz">hercules-2.10.tar.gz</a>
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<h2>What's new in release 1.71</h2>
<p>Release date: 18 January 2001
<ul>
<li> Compressed CKD DASD support release 2, with improved performance, shadow
file support, and better reliability (Greg Smith)
<li> Hercules Emulated Tape format support (Leland Lucius)
<li> Make HET bzip2 compression optional, analogous to CCKD bzip2 (Jay
Maynard)
<li> Fix for track overflow record zeroing (Roger Bowler)
<li> Clarified licensing discussion in FAQ (Roger Bowler)
<li> Treat printer X'37' CCW as NOP (Jay Maynard, suggested by Brandon Hill)
<li> Treat X'E503' MVS/XA assist instruction as no-op (Jay Maynard, suggested
by Brandon Hill)
<li> Read commands from hercules.rc at startup (Willem Konynenberg)
<li> New tapelist program prints contents of 80-byte record tapes (Jim
Morrison)
<li> Increased MAXDBLK from 3000 to 40000 and MAXTTR from 10000 to 40000 in
dasdload (Volker Bandke)
</ul>
<p>Download:
<a href="http://www.hercules-390.org/hercules-1.71.tar.gz">hercules-1.71.tar.gz</a>
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<h2>What's new in release 1.70</h2>
<p>Release date: 3 December 2000
<ul>
<li>New file hercwin32.zip contains build scripts for Win32 version (Volker
Bandke)
<li>More performance enhancements (Juergen Dobrinski)
<li>ALS-1 and ALS-2 support completion (Roger Bowler and Jan Jaeger)
<li>Extended Translation Facility (Roger Bowler)
<li>Pick up correct float.c module (Jay Maynard for Peter Kuschnerus)
<li>Distribute Windows binaries as well as Linux (Jay Maynard)
<li>Fix orienting bug in CKD DASD search CCW processing (Bob Abeles)
<li>Obtain TOD clock lock when accessing or updating 370 interval timer (Bob
Abeles)
<li>Change license to the QPL Open Source Definition-compliant license (Roger
Bowler, Jay Maynard, and Jan Jaeger)
</ul>
<p>Download:
<a href="http://www.hercules-390.org/hercules-1.70.tar.gz">hercules-1.70.tar.gz</a>
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<h2>What's new in release 1.69</h2>
<p>Release date: 29 October 2000
<ul>
<li>Correct AXR and SXR instruction results when significance exception
raised (Peter Kuschnerus, with help from Mario Bezzi)
<li>Correct CD and CDR instruction condition code logic (Peter Kuschnerus)
<li>Do not generate support for square root instructions in 370 mode (Peter
Kuschnerus)
<li>Floating point arithmetic tuning (Peter Kuschnerus)
<li>Performance optimization fixes (Juergen Dobrinski)
<li>Spelling corrections (Adam Thornton)
<li>Fixed version number (Jay Maynard)
</ul>
<p>Download:
<a href="http://www.hercules-390.org/hercules-1.69.tar.gz">hercules-1.69.tar.gz</a>
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<h2>What's new in release 1.68</h2>
<p>Release date: 8 October 2000
<ul>
<li>Rewritten and updated FAQ (Dave Morton)
<li>Compressed CKD DASD support (Greg Smith)
<li>Many performance improvements (Juergen Dobrinski, with help from
Albert Louw and Valery Pogonchenko)
<li>DASD I/O optimizations (Greg Smith and Malcolm Beattie)
<li>Simplified building on non-Intel architectures (Jay Maynard)
<li>Fix for random bug in MP instruction (Mario Bezzi)
<li>Treat all 3505 card reader read CCWs the same (Jay Maynard)
</ul>
<p>Download:
<a href="http://www.hercules-390.org/hercules-1.68.tar.gz">hercules-1.68.tar.gz</a>
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<h2>What's new in release 1.67</h2>
<p>Release date: 4 September 2000
<ul>
<li>Win32 portability changes (John Kozak)
<li>Fix for 64K segment length checking in 370 DAT (Jay Maynard, found by
Mario Bezzi)
<li>Fix for TPI storing interrupt code when no interrupt pending (Jay
Maynard, found by Greg Smith)
<li>Skip to channel 9 and 12 support (Roger Bowler)
<li>Panel refresh rate speedup and command (Reed Petty)
<li>Fix storage protection override on fetch (Jan Jaeger)
<li>SIE support, with S/370 and ESA/390 modes and vector support (Jan Jaeger)
<li>Bugfix for MXR instruction (by Peter Kuschnerus)
<li>CONCS, DISCS and RCHP instructions (Jan Jaeger)
<li>Fix flags on intermediate subchannel status (Jan Jaeger)
<li>Break SYSCONS output lines when too long (Jan Jaeger)
<li>Floating point instructions SQDR and SQER (by Peter Kuschnerus)
<li>Lock Page instruction (Jan Jaeger)
</ul>
<p>Download:
<a href="http://www.hercules-390.org/hercules-1.67.tar.gz">hercules-1.67.tar.gz</a>
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<h2>What's new in release 1.66</h2>
<p>Release date: 3 August 2000
<ul>
<li>Simplify logmsg and DEVTRACE macro definitions (Jay Maynard)
<li>Prevent incorrect length indication on CONTROL NOP CCW (Jay Maynard)
<li>Complete 370 HIO processing (Jay Maynard)
<li>Correct nullification of TPI and TSCH (Jan Jaeger)
<li>Add device locking to MSCH (Jan Jaeger)
<li>Correct TPROT instruction (Jan Jaeger)
<li>Correct address wrapping on assist instructions (Jan Jaeger)
<li>Change interrupt logic to use longjmp on all interrupts (Jan Jaeger)
<li>Clear remainder of ASTE when loading ASTE with ASF=0 in translate_asn
(Jan Jaeger)
<li>Add (incomplete) PLO instruction (Jan Jaeger)
<li>Fix CLCL interruption problem (Jan Jaeger)
<li>Fix addresswrap in MVO (Jan Jaeger)
<li>Make ED and EDMK perform a trial run (Jan Jaeger)
<li>Fix address wraparound in MVO (Jan Jaeger)
<li>Fix CR15 corruption in form_stack_entry, fix nullification in
form_stack_entry and unstack_registers (Jan Jaeger)
<li>Fix loss of interrupts in PR (Jan Jaeger)
</ul>
<p>Download:
<a href="http://www.hercules-390.org/hercules-1.66.tar.gz">hercules-1.66.tar.gz</a>
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<h2>What's new in release 1.65</h2>
<p>Release date: 22 July 2000
<ul>
<li> Track overflow processing fixes (by Jay Maynard, suggested by Valery
Pogonchenko)
<li> Added TOD clock update to STCK, STCKE, DIAG 204, and TRACE processing
(by Jay Maynard)
<li> Fixed READ DEVICE CHARACTERISTICS alternate track values for 3380 and
3390 (by Peter Macdonald)
<li> Skeletal CMPSC instruction (by Bernard van der Helm)
<li> Added support for 3340 and 3375 DASD (by Jay Maynard, with help from
Rick Fochtman and David Cole)
<li> Corrected interval timer update increment (by Jay Maynard)
<li> float.c optimization for new instruction decode and execution (by Peter
Kuschnerus)
<li> Fix program check on TIC ccw (by Jan Jaeger)
<li> Fix program check on NOP ccw (by Jan Jaeger)
<li> Instruction decode & execution restructure (by Jan Jaeger)
<li> Added -fomit-frame-pointer to compiles for improved performance (by Jan
Jaeger)
<li> Fix STCKE instruction (by Bernard van der Helm)
</ul>
<p>Download:
<a href="http://www.hercules-390.org/hercules-1.65.tar.gz">hercules-1.65.tar.gz</a>
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<h2>What's new in release 1.64</h2>
<p>Release date: 4 July 2000
<ul>
<li> Added track overflow processing for CKD DASD (by Jay Maynard)
<li> Makefile change to allow RPM building with RPM_BUILD_ROOT
(by David Barth)
<li> Added NetBSD build definitions to makefile (by Soren Jorvang)
<li> Moved version definition to version.h and removed
makefile dependency for source modules (by Jay Maynard)
<li> Package change: tarball now explodes into hercules-<version>
subdirectory (by Jay Maynard, suggested by Soren Jorvang)
<li> Fix backward going TOD clock (by Jan Jaeger)
<li> Suppress superflous HHC701/HHC702 messages (by Jan Jaeger)
<li> Rework cpu.c to decode instructions by macro (by Jan Jaeger)
<li> Bypass bug in IBM telnet client (by Jan Jaeger)
</ul>
<p>Download:
<a href="http://www.hercules-390.org/hercules-1.64.tar.gz">hercules-1.64.tar.gz</a>
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<h2>What's new in release 1.63</h2>
<p>Release date: 18 June 2000
<ul>
<li>3270 CCW processing improvements (by Jan Jaeger)
<li>OSTAILOR generalization, and new pgmtrace panel command (by Jan Jaeger)
<li>VM IUCV instruction correction and DIAGNOSE improvements (by Jan Jaeger)
<li>CPU timer and clock comparator improvements (by Jan Jaeger, after a
suggestion by Willem Konynenberg)
<li>3480 READ BLOCK ID and LOCATE CCW support (by Brandon Hill)
<li>Networking support via virtual CTCA (by Willem Konynenberg)
<li>Restructured CPU execution, by function call instead of switch statement
(by Mike Noel)
<li>Support for IEBCOPY sequential output datasets in dasdload (by Ronen
Tzur)
<li>New dasdls command lists the VTOC of a CKD DASD volume (by Malcolm
Beattie)
<li>New AWSTAPE handling commands: tapesplt, tapemap (by Jay Maynard)
<li><code>make install</code> target to install in /usr/bin (by Jay Maynard)
</ul>
<p>Download:
<a href="http://www.hercules-390.org/hercules-1.63.tar.gz">hercules-1.63.tar.gz</a>
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<h2>What's new in release 1.62</h2>
<p>Release date: 3 June 2000
<ul>
<li>Still more multiprocessor improvements (by Jan Jaeger)
<lI>Dynamic CPU reconfiguration (by Jan Jaeger)
<lI>Basic vector facility (by Jan Jaeger)
<li>Floating point version 6 (by Peter Kuschnerus)
<li>READ AND RESET BUFFERED LOG CCW (X'A4') support (by Jay Maynard)
<li>WRITE SPECIAL CKD CCW (X'01') support (by Jay Maynard)
<li>FBA DASD model reporting fixes (by Jay Maynard)
</ul>
<p>Download:
<a href="http://www.hercules-390.org/hercules-1.62.tar.gz">hercules-1.62.tar.gz</a>
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<h2>What's new in release 1.61</h2>
<p>Release date: 21 May 2000
<ul>
<li>More multiprocessor improvements (by Jan Jaeger)
<li>New startall/stopall panel commands (by Jan Jaeger)
<li>STIDP stores processor address in first digit of CPU id
(by Roger Bowler)
<li>Correction to IPTE instruction for S/370 (by Jay Maynard)
<li>Dummy HIO instruction for S/370 (by Jay Maynard)
<li>Support for emulated 0671 FBA DASD (by Jay Maynard)
<li>FBA device reserve/release CCW support (by Jay Maynard)
<li>New OSTAILOR configuration option allows selective suppression
of program check messages (by Jay Maynard)
</ul>
<p>Download:
<a href="http://www.hercules-390.org/hercules-1.61.tar.gz">hercules-1.61.tar.gz</a>
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<h2>What's new in release 1.60</h2>
<p>Release date: 14 May 2000
<ul>
<li>Multiprocessor locking improvements (by Jan Jaeger)
<li>Machine check and channel report word (by Jan Jaeger)
<li>Store Channel Report Word (STCRW) instruction (by Jan Jaeger)
<li>New attach/detach/define commands to allow dynamic addition
and deletion of devices from the configuration (by Jan Jaeger)
<li>Compare and Swap and Purge (CSP) instruction (by Jan Jaeger)
<li>Broadcasted purging (by Jan Jaeger)
<li>Fix LASP instruction SASN authorization using wrong AX if bits 29-31
are 010 and SASN \= PASN (by Mario Bezzi)
<li>Fix SAC instruction special operation exception setting secondary
space mode when ASF=0 (by Mario Bezzi)
<li>Remove intdrag option and replace drag command by toddrag command
<li>New extpending flag to improve performance (originally contributed
by Valery Pogonchenko and enhanced by Jan Jaeger)
<li>Allow longer host name in console connected message (by Jay Maynard)
<li>Floating point version 5 including fixes by Mario Bezzi
(contributed by Peter Kuschnerus)
</ul>
<p>Download:
<a href="http://www.hercules-390.org/hercules-1.60.tar.gz">hercules-1.60.tar.gz</a>
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<h2>What's new in release 1.59</h2>
<p>Release date: 30 Apr 2000
<ul>
<li>Missing interrupt after CSCH instruction
<li>S/370 DAT support (contributed by Jay Maynard)
<li>Tape device sense byte improvements (by Jan Jaeger)
<li>Read Buffered Log (CCW X'24') for tape devices (by Jan Jaeger)
<li>Reject Sense ID CCW for 3420 tape devices (by Jan Jaeger)
<li>Suppress unprintable character in HMC messages (by Jan Jaeger)
<li>Suppress attention interrupt if subchannel not enabled
(by Roger Bowler)
<li>New interrupt drag factor to improve performance (by Roger Bowler)
<li>New toddrag and intdrag config options and drag control panel
command allow drag factors to be set (by Roger Bowler)
<li>Light optimization on CPU critical path (by Valery Pogonchenko)
<li>Eliminate fetch protection override in S/370 mode
(by Valery Pogonchenko)
</ul>
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<h2>What's new in release 1.58</h2>
<p>Release date: 22 Apr 2000
<ul>
<li>Support for CKD DASD volumes exceeding 2GB such as 3390-3
(by Roger Bowler)
<li>3274-1D SELECT RB/RMP/RBP/WRT commands (by Roger Bowler)
<li>Support for 3270 14-bit SBA addressing and inbound SFE order
(by Roger Bowler)
<li>Command reject if Write Structured Field CCW issued to a
3270 without extended attributes (by Roger Bowler)
<li>Fix missing CSW_IL indication when CCW count exhausted
(by Roger Bowler)
<li>Do not set unit exception if CCW count is zero (by Jan Jaeger)
<li>Suppress space switch event program check messages (by Jan Jaeger)
<li>Branch tracing and cross memory tracing for
BALR, BASR, BASSM, BAKR, BSA, BSG, SSAR, PC, PT, PR instructions
(by Jan Jaeger)
<li>New diagnose instruction to stop CPU (by Jan Jaeger)
<li>Drag factor option slows down TOD clock, to decrease overhead
on very slow machines (by Jan Jaeger)
<li>Correction to PR instruction (by Jan Jaeger)
<li>Correction to LASP instruction (by Jan Jaeger)
<li>Make CLCLE/MVCLE/CKSM instructions conditional features
(by Jan Jaeger)