version 3.08

What's new in release 3.08
Release date: 8 December 2012

  * 1403 and 3211 FCB support (Enrico Sorichetti)
  * Shutdown on SIGTERM (Frans Pop)
  * Disable close-window button (Paul Gorlinsky)
  * Allow larger IPL text (Laddie Hanus)
  * Drop support for Cygwin, Win98, WinNT, Win2000 (Roger Bowler)
  * Windows shutdown handlers (Paul Gorlinsky)
  * Dynamically loadable instructions (Jan Jaeger)
  * Additional codepages (Kevin Leonard)
  * Load/Store-on-Condition Facility (Roger Bowler)
  * Distinct-Operands Facility (Roger Bowler)
  * Population-Count Facility (Roger Bowler)
  * High-Word Facility (Roger Bowler)
  * Message Security Assist Extensions 3 and 4 (Bernard van der Helm)
  * Interlocked-Access Facility (Roger Bowler)
  * CMPSC-Enhancement Facility (Bernard van der Helm)
  * Fast-BCR-Serialization Facility (Roger Bowler)
  * Reset-Reference-Bits-Multiple Facility (Jan Jaeger)
  * Access-Exception-Fetch/Store-Indication Facility (Roger Bowler)
  * Enhanced-Monitor Facility (Jan Jaeger)
  * Load-Program-Parameter Facility (Paul Gorlinsky)
  * IPTE-Range Facility (Jan Jaeger)
  * Enhanced-DAT Facility (Jan Jaeger)
  * Increase CKD_MAXFILES from 4 to 27 for 3390-27 and -54 (Paul Gorlinsky)
  * CKD read attention message command (Florian Bilek)
  * Support 128 CPUs on 64-bit Linux (Jan Jaeger)
  * Issue Hercules commands via HTTP (Robert Hodge)
  * Compression performance enhancements (Bernard van der Helm)
  * Compression bug fixes (Bernard van der Helm, John P. Hartmann)
  * Crypto bug fixes (Bernard van der Helm)
  * Hexadecimal floating-point bug fixes (Andy Polyakov)
  * SCSI tape enhancements and bug fixes (David "Fish" Trout)
  * 3420 sense code corrections for MTS (Harold Grovesteen)
  * Prevent multiple instances opening same output file under Windows (David "Fish" Trout)
  * 2703 and 3705 fixes and 3791 support (Max H. Parke, Juergen Winkelmann)
  * Enable GUI support as default for all platforms (Jacob Dekel)
  * 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)