Hostile network conditions slow down client connections due to gethostbyname timeouts.

Client connections to a correlator which is having network issues and cannot look up host names are no longer very slow to connect.

Can't cast negative numbers to any without parentheses.In order to cast a negative number to an any type, we needed to wrap the negative number with parentheses. Negative numbers can now be cast as any types without adding any such parentheses.

\u Unicode escape sequences provided via the properties file are not well processed by the correlator.

Correlator properties files now correctly implement \u escape sequences to encode UCS-2 characters. Characters from outside the Basic Multilingual Plane are only supported via a property file with the UTF-8 BOM at the start of the file.

Performance regression in Java event parser.

In the 10.1 release, the Java event parser performance degraded compared to the previous release. This is now fixed.