Hi, Everyone,

Happy New Year.

Thanks to sharp eyes of Preeti Gupta, we are able to track down an
insidious little problem with the use of /dev/random in FastBit code.
 The particular use was actually in the initialization of a static
global variable, it was causing delays before the start of the
function main, which is a unusual problem to detect.  This problem was
present in FastBit ibis1.3.3 and ibis1.3.4.  If you are using one of
these version, please move to the latest version ibis1.3.5.  You may
find a brief description about this release at
<https://codeforge.lbl.gov/frs/shownotes.php?release_id=357>.  The
source tar ball can be downloaded at
<https://codeforge.lbl.gov/frs/download.php/401/fastbit-ibis1.3.5.tar.gz>.

This release also contains a patch from Patrik Nisen and contributions
from others.  Thanks.

John
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