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 3.3 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

Knopflerfish 3.2 released

Knopflerfish 3.2.0 has been released and is available for download at:
http://www.knopflerfish.org/download.html

Knopflerfish 3.2 is the second minor KF3 release and includes several improvement in the framework, the compendium services and the Knopflerfish services, resulting in a faster and more robust platform.

The most important new feature and fixes are:
- Refactored fragment handling and full support for dynamic fragments
- Improved handling of hanging bundle threads in start and stop methods,
- Bugfixes in Conditional Permission Admin
- Improved HTTP server, better handling persistent connections as well as handling DoS attacks
- Fixed stability issues in Component (SCR)
- Improved Android / Dalvik support
- New tutorials for Security and Android

The release notes includes a complete description of all fixes in 3.2
http://www.knopflerfish.org/releases/3.2.0/release_notes.html

Regards,
Christer

Knopflerfish 3.1 released

Knopflerfish 3.1 has been released and is available for download at:
http://www.knopflerfish.org/download.html

Knopflerfish 3.1 is the first minor KF3 release. KF3.1 includes several improvement in the framework, the compendium services and the Knopflerfish services, resulting in a faster and more robust platform.

The most important new feature and fixes are:

• Updated framework with improved thread handling& asyncronous listeners.
• Reduced bundle start-up time
• Improved and faster log bundle
• Several fixes and minor improvements in the desktop bundle

The release notes includes a complete description of all fixes in 3.1

Regards,
Christer