Pleased to announce the release of WASD v12.0 for the Alpha, Itanium and
x86-64 (V9.1-A) platforms.

This has included a significant rework of WASD 64 bit internals.

Extensive field-test across three sites over four months suggests v12.0 is
stable and performs well.  Testing using OWASP ZAP indicates the same for
X86.

  https://wasd.vsm.com.au/wasd_root/wasdoc/features/httpdmon.png

WASD v12.0 and associated applications are available for download

  https://wasd.vsm.com.au/wasd/

The additional applications (aLaMode excluded) have "tweak" bumps in version
to indicate suitability for deployment on x86-64.  If you have the preceding
"tweak" version it does not add functionality and does not require upgrading
on Alpha and Itanium.

Cross-compiled x86-64 object code kits (courtesy Jeremy Begg and VSM Software
Services) are available for link-only builds on X86 platforms.  NOTE that
cross-compiler release notes strongly recommend NOT mixing object-code/VMS
releases.

|              OpenVMS x86-64 Cross-Compiler Release Notes
|                          Revision V9.1-A_XG1K
|                               2-Sep-2021
|
|  8< snip 8<
|
|  2  All Code Must Be Recompiled
|
|  During  this  early  phase  of  OpenVMS  testing,  the  compilers  are
|  undergoing  extensive  changes  for  featuers like exception handling,
|  floating point support,  and  calling  standard  changes.   These  new
|  features  often  involved  changes to both the compilers and operating
|  system.
|
|  All code must be recompiled with this cross-tools kit to  use  on  the
|  matching  OpenVMS  OS  release.   The  use  of  older  object files or
|  executable files  might  produce  incorrect  behavior.   There  is  no
|  "upward-compatibility"  at this time.  We will provide our traditional
|  "upward-compatibility" promise as we approach the V9.2 release.
|
|  8< snip 8<

The only known outstanding feature for V9.1-A is ACME.  WASD must be forced
to fallback to its own SYSUAF processing code by

  $ DEFINE /SYSTEM /EXEC WASD_NO_ACME *

before starting the server.

Regards, Mark.

PS. Response to field-test release for Alpha and Itanium sites' regression
testing confirms WASD's no-BETA-release approach (but thank you KWG).