We are pleased to announce that OpenLaszlo 4.2.0.1 is available now.

OpenLaszlo 4.2.0.1 is the next fully-qualified release since OpenLaszlo 4.2, and is the recommended platform for all application development in the SWF8, SWF9, and DHTML runtimes. This release addresses critical user-reported bugs primarily in the swf9 runtime, but also in DHTML.

For those of you who have already upgraded your applications to OpenLaszlo 4.2, no further work is needed. You should just start using OpenLaszlo 4.2.0.1.

For those of you who have 4.0.x or 4.1.1 applications, we strongly suggest that you refer to this wiki page: Runtime_Differences. This page discusses the changes required by SWF9 and also provides a methodology for upgrading your application. It is very important that you run the automated conversion scripts in the recommended order, should you choose to take advantage of them.

The 4.2.0.1 release includes almost 30 major bug fixes since 4.2; we have provided a link to the OpenLaszlo JIRA bug tracking system where you can view the details.

As always, we appreciate your involvement and OpenLaszlo reaps the benefit of your expertise and committment. We'd like to especially thank the following folks out there in the community who helped make this release by suggesting improvements, filing bugs, creating test cases, and contributing fixes: Andre Bargull, Sebastian Wagner, Ammar Sh. Tazami, Justin Clift, Mohammad ZeinEddin, Michael Jessup, and Nasser Najjar.

Posting this for Henry Minsky:

There is now a way for developers to add comments and examples to the documentation. At the bottom of every doc page is a link that lets you write a comment or tip. The comments will be sent to volunteer reviewers, and if approved will appear on the doc page.

The guideline for comments is similar to the PHP docs; you should add tips or code samples that clarify the documentation on that page. Questions and bug reports should be filed in JIRA or posted to the mailing lists or forums.

You can see the doc-with-comments feature on the docs on the nightly build only for now, for example the reference manual

http://labs.openlaszlo.org/trunk-nightly/docs/reference/

The comment-enabled docs are in trunk, so they will appear on the openlaszlo.org docs with the next release. Please try contributing some comments with the nightly build, so we can debug the comments system. Also send me a note if you want to be a volunteer reviewer.

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Henry Minsky
Software Architect

We've released version 4.0.15 of OpenLaszlo. This is a bug-fix release for the 4.0 codebase of OpenLaszlo, and is available from the Download Archives page. Please note that 4.0.14 was never publicly released.

This release should be used by anyone programming in the 4.0.x release train. The current official release for OpenLaszlo is 4.2.0, available from the download page.