We're experimenting with making particularly useful milestones available as releases. 5.0b2 is now available on the openlaszlo.org website under Nightly builds. See: http://www.openlaszlo.org/download

5.0b2 is a milestone towards 5.0 and contains significant bug fixes that may be useful to you. It is NOT fully tested nor is it a qualified or recommended release. It is, however, a milestone that focuses on DHTML bugs and you may find it useful in your development.

You can review the bug fixes here: http://wiki.openlaszlo.org/5.0b2_Release_Notes

Congratulations to the OpenMeetings team on their first release as an Apache project. We are thrilled to showcase this OpenLaszlo application and repost their announcement here:

We are happy to announce Version 2.0 of Apache OpenMeetings Incubating!

This is our first release as an Apache project and there have been major changes almost everywhere in the application.

Restyled UI The UI has been refactored to have a common look and feel. Additionally most of the icons are now loaded at runtime. That means you can change colors and icons at runtime without changing the source code. More info: http://incubator.apache.org/openmeetings/themes-and-branding.html

New Calendar The calendar was completely refactored and got a new UI that was built from scratch that also adds some new functions. For example it is possible now to password protect invitations sent via the calendar. Further the timezone handling has been refactored and there is now also a SOAP/REST API to handle calendar Events ( http://incubator.apache.org/openmeetings/SoapRestAPI.html )

Integration with Asterisk The application contains now modules to directly integrate OpenMeetings with Asterisk for SIP/VoIP integration. It enables you to dial in as well as dial out of conference room to SIP or ordinary phones. More info: http://incubator.apache.org/openmeetings/voip-sip-integration.html

Install/Backup/Import via command line Additionally to the Web-Interface you can now do all basic operations via console. Just cd to your OpenMeetings installation directory and type “admin” (or ./admin.sh) and you will see all the options available (OpenMeetings service should be shut down while doing those operations)

Using SWF10 for Video Components All audio/video related components now use SWF10 for broadcasting and receiving audio and video signals. That makes it possible to use for example the echo cancellation feature build in the SWF10 Flash Player.

There are a lot more improvements for example to recording, screen sharing and new layout options. To see the full list please review our Release Notes for Version 2.0:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12312720&version=12319197

There are also new Integration Plugins in the pipe!

Integration into Atlassian Jira There is a plugin in our SVN that will be released soon for integration with Atlassian Jira, you can watch a demo here: https://blogs.apache.org/openmeetings/entry/jira_integration_apache_openmeetings_demo

Integration into Atlassian Confluence Same for Atlassian Confluence Wiki, you can watch a demo here: https://blogs.apache.org/openmeetings/entry/demo_video_about_upcoming_atlassian

Important Changes OpenOffice service does not need to be running as permanent service. But you have to set the path to OpenOffice (or LibreOffice) and JODConverter tools in OpenMeetings configuration. OpenMeetings (and JODConverter) will start and stop the OpenOffice service when they need it.

Upgrading from Version 1.9 or prior To update from an old version of OpenMeetings to 2.x you should use the integrated Backup and Import tool that exists since around Version 1.3. You should follow our documentation, see: http://incubator.apache.org/openmeetings/Upgrade.html

Downloads of sources and binaries are available from the mirrors linked here:
http://incubator.apache.org/openmeetings/downloads.html

All downloads can be verified using the Apache OpenMeetings code signing KEYS .

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openmeetings-dev@incubator.apache.org, openmeetings-user@incubator.apache.org

We are pleased to pass along this announcement from Sebastian Wagner:

Hi,

I would like to announce that we have release OpenMeetings in Version 1.8, based on the OpenLaszlo framework
I think it can be called quite full-featured: http://code.google.com/p/openmeetings/wiki/ChangeLog
Although we still try to improve and permanently add new features.

We are also applying for the Apache Incubator: http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OpenmeetingsProposal
And after a while we have now an Apache Champion and enough Mentors from the Foundation to move on to bring OpenMeetings into the Apache Incubator. So if things work well that could become the first OpenLaszlo powered project at the Apache Foundation!

Sebastian
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Sebastian Wagner
http://www.webbase-design.de
http://openmeetings.googlecode.com
http://www.wagner-sebastian.com
seba.wagner@gmail.com

It seems that somewhere we should mark the event of the 10,000th JIRA issue being filed yesterday. That's a lot of issues, a lot of new features, and a lot of improvements. It also represents a lot of fixes, contributions, and hard work. What a ride!

I still remember when we moved to JIRA in 2005. We were just getting ready to release OpenLaszlo 3.0. In fact, we were doing our second and final beta release in advance of OpenLaszlo 3.0. The very first JIRA task we filed was to implement dynamic libraries (LPP-1), followed by the implementation of SOLO mode (LPP-2) or serverless deployment as we called it back then. We've come so far!

From then until now, over 6 years have passed and OpenLaszlo has been fortunate to have the expertise and contributions of so many talented developers and contributors. To all of you out there that have supported OpenLaszlo and come along for the ride - thank you!

And now, it's onward to HTML5... and another 10,000.

Newest Addition to Showcase Applications: OpenMeetings

OpenMeetings is a free browser-based software that allows you to
instantly set up a conference in the Web. You can use your microphone
or webcam, share documents on a white board, share your screen or
record meetings. It is available as hosted service or you download and
install a package on your server with no limitations in usage or
users.

Check it out at http://www.openmeetings.de

We've been updating the OpenLaszlo Showcase with new applications submitted by OpenLaszlo users (see http://www.openlaszlo.org/showcase). We've added three new applications, and if you haven't already seen them, they are definitely worth a look:

PROTOGYM: an online personal training and exercise management solution developed in OpenLaszlo featuring intelligent automatic workout generation, historical data tracking and trending, integrated equipment inventories, and detailed videos and instructions for over 600 exercises.

ISCOPE: a web developing agency located in Osnabrück, Germany using OpenLaszlo for small widgets, tool development, and websites, such as a fully functional ERP/Enterprise Resource Management that is also modular and multilingual.

DCM-A: a company specializing in medical informatics, created a medical images viewer in OpenLaszlo that conforms to the DICOM protocol and works in web environments, as well as on mobile or desktop devices.

OpenLaszlo 4.9 is now available for download at http://www.openlaszlo.org/download.

OpenLaszlo 4.9 is a significant release along the path to Openlaszlo 5.0, which is the upcoming release with newly redesigned components. OpenLaszlo 4.9 contains over 160 bug fixes and implements the infrastructure to support the new components. It also provides new features for creating and deploying mobile applications.

To see the complete list of fixes, refer to the JIRA 4.9 Release notes for details.

OpenLaszlo continues to be grateful for the significant contributions by André Bargull, whose numerous bug fixes and exacting techical reviews make OpenLaszlo more robust. We also want to thank Ono Keiji, Jaco Botha, Alexander Pakhunov, Chen Ding, Clint Dickson, Gioacchino Mazzurco, John Olmstead, Justin Hunt, Pasqualino 'Titto' Assini, Raju Bitter, and Rami Ojares, who took the time to isolate and report important bugs for us to address in this release. Thank you! We would also like to thank the entire OpenLaszlo community for your support in so many ways, like submitting bug fixes, helping users on the OpenLaszlo forums, and participating in discussions to help make OpenLaszlo a better platform.

Check out the latest OpenLaszlo View article on how to use OL to generate W3C Widgets here:
http://www.openlaszlo.org/node/415

You can review all the OpenLaszlo View articles here:
http://www.openlaszlo.org/documentation

OpenLaszlo 4.8.1 is now available for download at http://www.openlaszlo.org/download.

OpenLaszlo 4.8.1 is an incremental release of OpenLaszlo 4, and contains almost 20 bug fixes (see the JIRA report 4.8 Release Notes for details). In addition to the bug fixes, two new features have been added: support for incremental compilation for SWF10 applications; and a compiler option that lets you store pre-compiled platform-specific object code for both the DHTML and SWF10 runtime in a binary library format.

OpenLaszlo continues to be grateful for the significant contributions by André Bargull, whose numerous bug fixes and exacting techical reviews make OpenLaszlo more robust. We also want to thank Ono Keiji, Jaco Botha, Alexander Pakhunov, Chen Ding, Clint Dickson, Gioacchino Mazzurco, John Olmstead, Justin Hunt, Pasqualino 'Titto' Assini, Raju Bitter, and Rami Ojares, who took the time to isolate and report important bugs for us to address in this release. Thank you! We would also like to thank the entire OpenLaszlo community for your support in so many ways, like submitting bug fixes, helping users on the OpenLaszlo forums, and participating in discussions to help make OpenLaszlo a better platform.

We are pleased to announce that OpenLaszlo 4.8.0 is available for download here.

OpenLaszlo 4.8.0 is an incremental release of OpenLaszlo 4, and contains 152 bug fixes (see the JIRA report 4.8 Release Notes for details). There are a wide range of bug fixes, including CSS stylable canvas, more dynamic CSS support, the promotion of tooltip to an official component, improved drawview support, simpler association of CSS properties with attributes and an ability to provide a fallback value for CSS-styled attributes.

OpenLaszlo continues to be grateful for the significant contributions by André Bargull, whose numerous bug fixes and exacting techical reviews make OpenLaszlo more robust. We also want to thank Alexander Pakhunov, Chen Ding, Clint Dickson, Gioacchino Mazzurco, John Olmstead, Justin Hunt, Pasqualino 'Titto' Assini, Raju Bitter, and Rami Ojares, who took the time to isolate and report important bugs for us to address in this release. Thank you! We would also like to thank the entire OpenLaszlo community for your support in so many ways, like submitting bug fixes, helping users on the OpenLaszlo forums, and participating in discussions to help make OpenLaszlo a better platform.