OL4 B1 Candidate available
We reached a huge milestone today: our QA team has qualified and released a build (#3172) of OpenLaszlo 4.0 Beta 1, and we are making that build available for folks who want to take an early look in advance of the official release of B1 early in January.
The build is deployed on labs at http://labs.openlaszlo.org/lps-4.0b1. Downloads are available from openlaszlo.org.
If you are a member of the OpenLaszlo developer community and would like to preview this release, we would appreciate your feedback. For more serious development, and for those new to OpenLaszlo development, we recommend you wait until the official Beta is released in a couple of weeks.
We're aware of four blocking issues with this qualified build, all of which will be resolved by the time we release Beta 1:
- The Reference Guide is incomplete. We are essentially rewriting the tools used to generate the RefGuide, and the tools need a little more time before they can merge documentation from the LFC and the Components.
- The Release Notes need a little more work. In any beta of a developer tool, release notes are an essential resource since they provide a capsule summary of all that has changed in the project. The release notes in this build are pretty good, but more work will be put into making them comprehensive and understandable.
- In Safari on OS X, with the Pop-up Blocker turned on, the DHTML version of the Laszlo Explorer Welcome page does not always appear. Navigation to that page is triggered asynchronously, and in this case Safari thinks we are trying to pop up a window. A fix for this issue will be in the next build.
- In IE7 in the DHTML version of Explorer, in certain circumstances the demo applications launch into the navigation pane rather than into a fresh window. A fix for this issue will be in the next build.
You can read more about OL4B1 in the release notes.
December 21st, 2006 at 7:57 pm
[...] Jim Grandy of the OpenLaszlo project just announced it in the OpenLaszlo blog: OpenLaszlo 4.0 Beta1 candidate is available for download at OpenLaszlo.org. Congratulations to the OpenLaszlo team! There are still four blocking issues which have to be resolved for the release of Beta 1. But this is a giant step into the direction of the OpenLaszlo 4.0 release. [...]
December 22nd, 2006 at 12:22 am
Congratulations. I have a docs request, though… could the SWF runtime engine be accurately identified, please?
“…heavily revamped Flash runtimes….”
“# OpenLaszlo 4 supports Flash Player 7 and later. Flash Player 9-specific optimizations will be available in a subsequent release.” etc
http://labs.openlaszlo.org/lps-4.0b1/docs/release-notes.html
(It’s “Adobe Flash Player”… a predictable clientside ability.)
tx, jd/adobe
December 22nd, 2006 at 10:34 am
John, I’m not sure whether you are pointing out an inaccuracy or simply asking for formal attribution? I’ll make sure we do the latter in the final version of the release notes, and I’d be happy to resolve any inaccuracy as well. Let me know.
jim