This release includes supports for all ILU types except pipes, and most features including multiple inheritance, threads, network garbage collection and across-the-wire polymorphism. This release specifically does not include support for pipes, multiple languages in the same address space, or authorization.

The supported languages in this release are

Release 1.7 (to which 1.8 is a small change) was tested on the Sun SPARCStation, under both SunOS 4.1.3 (for C, C++, Common Lisp, Python, and Modula-3), and both Linux and Solaris 2.3 (for C and C++). It has also been tested on the SGI Indigo running IRIX 5.2 (for C, C++, Python, and Common Lisp). Other testers have reported successfully building it on AIX, HP-UX, DG-UX, and SCO Unix. The core of the ILU system is written in ANSI C & Posix, so it should be highly portable.

This release is only available via anonymous ftp. You can ftp either the GNU-zipped tar file of the complete sources (about a 1.4 MB file), or the 'compress'ed tar file of the complete sources (about a 2.4 MB file). The manual by itself can be retrieved as a Postscript file (282KB, compressed), or it can be viewed as a WorldWideWeb HTML document.