Release Notes Knopflerfish 3.0.0 (OSGi R4 v4.2)
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First official release of Knopflerfish 3 available from
http://www.knopflerfish.org/releases/3.0.0
Knopflerfish 3 is an implementation of the
"OSGi Service Platform Release 4 Version 4.2". It contains
all services specified in the "Core Specification" and most
of the services specified in the "Compendium Specifification".
Here follows a breakdown of the most important changes since
Knopflerfish 2.3.3 release that aren't caused by updating KF
to "OSGi R4 v4.2".
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Osgi Core Specification
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All the Core Specification Services are included and up to date
OSGi R4 v4.2 specificatio. Please consult the "OSGi Service Platform,
Core Specification, Release 4 Version 4.2" for more information.
Framework 5.0.0
- Several parts of the framework has been rewritten to handle
the new OSGi framework specification and improve stability.
- The Android support has temporarily been dropped. Will probably
be restored in the next release.
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OSGi Compendium Specification
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All the Compendium Specification Services included are updated to date
OSGi R4 v4.2 specification. Please consult the "OSGi Service Platform,
Service Compendium, Release 4 Version 4.2" for more information.
Event 3.0.3
- Improved performance a lot by rewriting the whole mechanism for
matching events to event handlers during event delivery. General
clean up and removal of dead code.
- Delivery of asynchronous events (posted events) is now by default
done using multiple delivery threads. There will be one delivery
thread for each thread that posts events. Each delivery thread
terminates when it has been idle for more than 1100 milliseconds.
- When using multiple delivery thread events posted from a delivery
thread will be scheduled for delivery on that thread. This preserves
ordering and keep the number of delivery threads down.
- Added bundle doc describing all framework properties that may be
used to configure the Knopflerfish Event implementation.
Http 3.0.0
- Implement URL rewrite to support sessions when Cookies are turned
of. The methods encodeURL(String) and encodeRedirectURL(String) in
the HttpServletResponse class now inserts the session id at the end
of the path part of the URL. The HttpServletRequest now extracts
the session id from the path when present.
- Return correctly formated IPv6 addresses from
HttpServletRequest.getRequestURL().
- When a registered resource was fetched and the request contained an
'If-Modified-Since'-header with a date value that did not parse
correctly the fetch was aborted with an
IllegalArgumentException. That exception is now caught and the
'If-Modified-Since'-header is ignored when this happens.
- Added support for responding with "Content-Encoding: gzip" for
resources when the request header "Accept-Encoding" indicates that
gzip:ed responses are preferred.
- The non-standard request header "Proxy-Connection" is now
recognized and handled in the same way as the standardized
"Connection" header.
- Fixed a problem in the parsing of the HTTP request line when it
originated from a proxy-server. Such requests may have an absolute
URI (with scheme and authority before the path) not just a path
with optional query data.
- Fixed problem with calls to HttpContext getMimeType(). The value of
the name parameter was not the same as in the corresponding call to
getResource() (the original URI path was used instead of the
translated target resource name).
Component (Service Component Runtime) 3.0.0
- New implementation compatible with the OSGi R4 v4.2 specification.
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Knopflerfish Specific
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axis-osgi 0.1.0.kf3
- Do not use the bean-mapper for java.util.Date, java.util.Map and
java.util.Vector since axis provides special mappers for these
classes.
Bundlerepository 3.1.1
- Added support for version ranges when resolving imported packages.
- Switched to tango icon set.
Command 0.1
- This is an implementation of the new proposed OSGi Standardized
console (not included in OSGi R4 v4.2). To make console commands
written for the legacy Knopflerfish console available in the
command console, use the 'console2command'-bundle.
Console 3.0.1
- Many commands that has a bundle-argument now accepts the bundle
symbolic name as a way to specify the bundle (they also accept
bundle id and bundle name as before).
- Fixed documentation URL and Subversion URL in the manifest.
Console Telnet 3.0.1
- Made the host (IP interface) to open the telnet server on
settable via a framework property.
Crimson-XML 2.1.0.kf3
- Updated to use 2008 version of OSGi's XMLParserActivator. Fixed
so that bundle works together with java 1.4 system xml classes.
Desktop 3.1.0
- Improved bundle selection handling. E.g., using the menu item
"unselect all" in the edit menu now updates the selection state in
the "Bundle details view". The bundle section model now supports
selection (or de-selection) of many bundles in one event (operation).
- Use the value of the new 4.2 manifest header "Bundle-Icon" as the
bundle icon when present. The icon with a size closest to 32 is
preferred by the desktop.
- Added menu action for resolving all selected bundles.
- Added support for using options when starting and stopping bundles.
E.g., a bundle may now be transiently started or stopped.
- Menu and toolbar entries for starting, stopping, updating and
uninstalling bundles are now disabled when no bundle is selected.
- Changing start level for bundles now works when more than one
bundle is selected.
- Fixed a problem (dead-lock of the Event Dispatcher Thread) when
calling the bundle life-cycle operations on the desktop bundle
itself.
- Fixed a number of issues when using the desktop with a
RemoteFramework. E.g., the list of bundles shown was taken from
the own (client) framework when it should have come from the remote
(server) framework.
- Switched to tango icon set.
- The packages displayer sometimes incorrectly showed packages that
the bundle both imports and exports as missing. This is now
fixed. The root of the problem was that there is no wire for a
package that a bundle imports when the selected exporter is the
current class-loader of the bundle itself.
Directory Deployer 3.0.1
- Major refresh. New configuration PID and proprety names. Added
configuration telling if all bundles it have installed should be
uninstalled when it stops or not. Performs a refresh package after
bundle updates. Bundles may now be left active in the framework
when the directory deployer bundle is stopped. When started again
it will detect bundle it has previously installed that no longer
has a bundle archive in the watched directories and uninstall them.
Framework Commands 3.0.3
- Added support for using options when starting and stopping bundles.
E.g., a bundle may now be transiently started or stopped.
- New option "-a" (append) added to the 'cd' command.
- New command 'properties' that may be used to list System and
Framework properties.
- New command 'threads' that may be used to list threads started by
via the current framework.
- The 'services' command has a new option "-sid 23" that only shows
services with the specified service id.
- The URL given to the 'formupdate' and 'frominstall' commands now
uses the same set of base URLs as the 'install' command.
httpconsole 3.0.2
- Converte old documentation to bundle user doc, added tooltips to
command buttons on the web-page.
- Switched to tango icon set.
kSOAP Remote Framework 3.0.3
- Updated documentation and added xargs-file fragments that makes it
easier to start using this feature.
- All properties controlling this bundle can now be given as
framework properties.
- The RemoteFW implementation of BundleContext.getProperty() did not
handle unset properties correctly (it now returns null as
expected).
kXML 2 2.3.0.kf3
- This bundle provides the latest version of kXML 2, an XML parser
with a small footprint.
- The bundle packing has been changed since the 1.0.1 version. The
kXML 2 bundle is now built and packed as a "normal" bundle without
using nested jar-files. This simplifies for other bundles wiht
build time dependecies on it. Note that due to this change build
files may need to be update.
Log 3.0.1
- New configuration property for setting the number of
log records to keep in memory.
- The bundle symbolic name may now be used to identify the bundle
when configuring per bundle log-levels.
Log Commands 3.0.1
- If a log entry includes a service reference print the service id
in addition to the value of the object class property.
- The commands 'setLevel' and 'showLevel' now supports specification
of the bundle using its symbolic name.
- A new option "-c" that clears the in memory log has been added to
the 'memory' command.
TrayIcon 3.0.1
- Ensure that the AWT initialization and component creation is
performed on AWT's Event Dispatch Thread to avoid dead-locks when
more than one bundles is using AWT.
- Updated to use standard SystemTray and TrayIcon classes available
since Java6 in java.awt package.
- This means that the bundle requires java6 to fully function. Will
compile and start under older java versions, but no tray icon will
be shown.
Xerces-J 2.10.0.kf3
- updated to use 2008 version of OSGi's XMLParserActivator.
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Please read on the KF site for more information.
http://www.knopflerfish.org/
