Knopflerfish 5.1 released

The Knopflerfish team is pleased to announce the release of Knopflerfish 5.1 now available for download from the Knopflerfish web site.

Knopflerfish version 5.1 is the first minor release of Knopflerfish  implemented according to the OSGi Release 5 specification and includes several minor enhancements as well as all bug fixes made since KF 5.0 was released. The 5.1 release also includes fixed related to Java 8 and Knopflerfish 5.1 passes all tests on Java 7 and 8, as well as older Java versions, and embedded Java profiles.

The new key features in Knopflerfish OSGi 5.1 are:

• Support for starting from a single jar that includes all jars, xargs and property files needed to start an entire system
• Knopflerfish framework can now be executed in read only mode, i.e. no files are written by the framework. This assumes bundles are installed as reference file URLs
• UserAdmin is completely self-contained, i.e. no dependencies on KF specific bundles
• CM's persistent storage has been made more robust and fault resilient
• HTTP Server now handles chunked transfer encoding correctly
• Minor fixes in SCR
• Repository Commands supports -r flag which recursively finds and installs dependencies
• Plus many more minor fixes and enhancements.

The Release Notes includes the complete list of features and fixes. 

Enjoy!

Knopflerfish 3.4 is released

Knopflerfish 3.4 is the next minor KF3 release and includes several fixes and improvement in the core OSGi framework, the OSGi compendium services and the Knopflerfish services. The most important changes are:

• Several stability issues corrected in SCR (Declarative Services), e.g. correcting potential deadlocks and improved circular component reference handling.
• New SCR display in KF Desktop, showing information on SCR components.
• Corrected potential race conditions in framwork.
• Updated framework / system bundle symbolic name, version and other header values.
• Corrected NPE in EventAdmin when handling unregistered services.
• An http console command group has been added to the HTTP server for inspecting the settings and status of the HTTP server.

The Release Notes includes the complete list of features and fixes.

/Christer

Knopflerfish 3.3 released

We are happy to announce that Knopflerfish 3.3, the third minor KF3 release, is now available for download at: http://www.knopflerfish.org/download.html

KF 3.3 includes several fixes and improvement in the framework, the compendium services and the Knopflerfish services, resulting in a faster and more robust Knopflerfish OSGi. The most important changes are:

• Corrected framework stability issues, e.g. detecting and abort recursive service factory calls, issue with deadlock in service listeners
• SCR (component) now supports the Felix SCR API. This is used by the new SCR Commands bundle, see below
• scrcommands - new console command group bundle for controlling and inspecting service components
• Corrected stability issues in SCR, Event Admin, CM and HTTP
• Enhanced support for Android, including support for Android 4 and handling the crippled java security classes in Dalvik
• Improved bundle sort order in desktop
• HTTP PUT and DELETE supported by HttpClientConnector

The Release Notes have the complete listing of changes:
http://www.knopflerfish.org/releases/3.3.0/release_notes.html

/Christer