Engineering has released new 7.x VMs - the following bugs have been addressed:

• 50949: Launching an image gives write permission to it
• 51236: Bus Error when VI is reading/accepting socket data on intel macosx engine
• 51239: Sentinel in win vm's io semaphore array's free list is wrong.
• 51255: Windows socket performance 100 times worse if background processes are running
• 51316: description of primitive 390 for OS8
• 51328: 51077 introduced a bug on Solaris causing lost delays when moving windows
• 51330: Revert to VC++ v6
• 51359: StrAllocate needs an OE function for fixed space
• 51363: ZLib code fails to export all functions in the zlib interface.

The following ARs were fixed in the preceding 7.4c engines:

• 46964: Moving mouse speeds up thapi queries 30-fold on Linux MP.
• 50990: Moving low-level event dispatch from the VM up into the VI
• 50992: Wave Core parcel crashes engine upon load on 64 bit linux (VM)
• 50994: A remote Postgres connection makes the Linux VM run hot
• 51077: Fix to debug engine's interminable stream of "lost time signal in waitForIO"
• 51078: LAZY_UNLINKING regime fails to void cached MNU PICs
• 51081: crash in LESS application looks like a Visualworks bug
• 43106: Attempting to receive data on a SocketAccessor results in UHE: WSAECONNRESET under Windows 2000
• 51155: soft heap ulimit restricts memoryUpperBound on Solaris since 7.4
• 51174: 64-bit Linux hot hang in #waitNoButton

Grab 'em and go

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