OpenVMS V9.2-2 public availability
VMS Software Inc. announces a new production release, OpenVMS V9.2-2. This is a stability improvement and bugfix update for the issues found since V9.2-1. It also includes all of the fixes that were provided with Update 1 and 2 issued between the releases. We keep working on moving OpenVMS into the future by providing new features, improving stability, and expanding compatible software list by porting important open-source applications and layered products available from VSI for the older architectures.
In addition to fixes to OpenVMS itself, this release includes updates for several built-in products:
- TCP/IP V6.0-23
- SSL111 V1.1-1W
- SSL3 V3.0-11
- OpenSSH V8.9-1G
New version can be downloaded from the VSI Service Portal under the package name of X86VMS-OPENVMS-V0902-2. To find out more about the release, visit the V9.2-2 page.
OpenVMS V9.2-2 on x86 is available to commercial users who already have a license for x86 and our ISV partners.
If you are a commercial customer or a new community user and wish to run OpenVMS for x86 in your test environment, please complete this online form. The evaluation license provided to commercial customers is only for test/demo purposes and cannot be used in production.
We are also glad to announce that the first field test version of the Bliss compiler for x86 is available for download from the VSI Service Portal and testing. Known issues and differences from the BLISS for AXP/I64 include:
- Missing online HELP;
- Possible compiler errors when the first occurrence of a structure formal is within a conditional branch;
- The Alpha/Itanium floating point register names are not supported for naming in REGISTER, GLOBAL REGISTER, EXTERNAL REGISTER or as parameters to LINKAGE declarations;
- The RETURNADDRESS built-in function returns the PC of the caller's caller;
- The BLI$CALLG routine is now obsolete;
- The /ANNOTATIONS, /GRANULARITY, /MACHINE_CODE, and /TIE qualifiers are ignored;
- Direct use of the x86-64 floating-point registers is not supported;
- BLISS will add new compiler-state lexicals to support the OpenVMS x86-64 compilers: BLISS32X and BLISS64X.
As always, we welcome reports of any found issues with these products through the Portal issue reporting mechanism and the appropriate sections of the official VMS Software forum.
