Open Object Rexx 4.0.1 Now Available

May 1, 2010

The Rexx Language Association (RexxLA) and the Open Object Rexx Development Team are pleased to announce the availability of Open Object Rexx (ooRexx) version 4.0.1. ooRexx 4.0.1 is the latest open source version of IBM's old Object REXX interpreter. It is released under the Common Public License (CPL) v1.0.

This version incorporates all the fixes from the release of the 4.0.0 version until the release data. The number of fixes is too numerous to list here. There is no new functionality contained in this release. The number of supported platforms and operating systems is large and the source is readily available to compile it on the platform of your choice in the event a version is not available for your platform.

The initially supported platforms are (more to follow):

Windows 2000/XP Vista
RedHat Linux 5 (i386 and x86_64)
Fedora 10/11/12 (i386)
SUSE Linux 10/10 (i386 and x86_64)
Ubunti Linux 6.04/7.04 (i386 and x86_64)
Debian Linux 5.0 (i386 and x86_64)
AIX 5.2/5.3/6.1 (32 and 64 bit)

The documentation has also been improved and reorganized. It is available in both PDF and HTML formats.

The new ooRexx release and documentation may be downloaded from SourceForge.

The main project web site for ooRexx is SourceForge.

The Rexx language Association is the sponsor for the Open Object Rexx Project.

The ooRexx Development Team would like to thank the beta testers for this release. With their invaluable help we are able to provide a release that has been tested not only on our test suite but on many customer's production code.

The ooRexx Development Team invites all individuals and corporations to contribute to the ooRexx Project. There are many ways to contribute from writing C/C++ code to administering aspects of the project. We also need developers willing to write and maintain tests for every aspect of ooRexx. We also need contributors to our wiki located on SourceForge. Monetary or hardware contributions are also appreciated.

The Open Object Rexx Development Team