[Informa-announce] ANN: Informa 0.6.5 released

[Niko S. <ni...@na...>]

It was time for a new Informa release, so please welcome version 0.6.5.

The support of the Atom 0.3 news feed syntax has been improved. The
poller and cleaner worker threads are now daemons. Reworked session
locking in HibernateUtil to improve thread-safety. Many more
improvements to the Poller module. There also many small bugs related to
encoding problems fixed. The JDOM library has been updated from b10 to
1.0.

Special thanks to Aleksey and many other people who contributed to this
informa release.

IMPORTANT: Please note that any bugfixes to this release (0.6.5) will go
the CVS branch named 'branch-0_6_5'. Eventually there will be a bug-fix
release on this branch, all other development activities will take
place on the CVS HEAD.

Have fun,
Niko


==== The detailed ChangeLog for Informa 0.6.5 vs. 0.6.0 ====

 o Updated JDOM library from b10 to 1.0

 o Fixed bug 1145998 (Encoding not correctly set on writing feed)
   Thanks for reporting on this to Felipe Vieira Silva and Filip van 
   Laenen.

 o [ad...@gm..., 01-May-2005] Fix for blogs (msdn) which have
   'created' dates, but not 'issued' dates in clear contravention of
   the Atom 0.3 spec (Atom 0.3 Parser).

 o Changes by Aleksey Gureev (BlogBridge Team):
   - Added recognition of content type for Atom tags 'title', 
     'copyright', 'content' and 'summary'. Title and copyright are 
     returned in plain text.
     Content / summary are preferred in HTML format. Content tag 
     is preferred source of entry (item) description.
   - Added support of <content:encoded> tag for RSS1.0 and RSS2.0.
   - Added support of muliple links in entries of Atom feed with 
     different types. The one to be put in item object is selected
     using the order of type preference (currently it's set to
     'text/html', then 'text/plain' then others.
   - Added support for another date format met at 
     http://www.jnsk.se/weblog: "Tue, 21 Dec 2004 23:02 +0100".
   - Made poller and cleaner worker threads be daemons.
   - Reverted equals() matching methods to perform minimum comparisons 
     for all implementations of ChannelIF and ItemIF (others don't have 
     equals()).
   - Reworked Poller and Cleaner to process tasks basing on simple   
     blocking queue, which is significantly more simple and reliable.
   - Added items scanning policies to Poller to control how it looks 
     for the new items:
      POLICY_SCAN_ALL            - Scan all items (default)
      POLICY_SKIP_AFTER_EXISTING - Stop scanning once existing item 
     detected.
   - Fixed problems with orphan guide available after successful 
     merging.
   - Added Poller construction method with custom HTTP user-agent.
   - Added support for custom SAX2 Drivers in FeedParser.
   - Reworked session locking in HibernateUtil to improve thread-safety.
   - Added callback interface InputSourceProviderIF to convert feed's
     InputStream before parsing, which is useful for pre-processing the 
     data before it gets into parser.
   - Converting case of tags' names to expected before feeds parsing.
   - Poller Module: Channels can be scheduled for polling with initial 
     delay different from zero.
   - Poller Module: Added stream providing hook to create non-default
     InputStream for feed fetching.
   - Added detection of Atom 0.1-0.3 to FormaDetector.
   - Fix for invalid TTL format parsing in RSS 2.0.
   - Fix for parsing of Atom feeds without version attribute (v0.3 is 
     assumed).
   - Added support for correct CDATA handling in the fields of Atom 
     feeds
     (title, description, copyright, or whatever).
   - Integrated minor Hibernate + Channel/Item URL's fix by Scott  
     Douglass