[openxdas-users] Announcing OpenXDAS release 0.7.320!

[John C. <joh...@gm...>]

I'm pleased to announce the release of OpenXDAS version 0.7.320.

Due to a massive upgrade to sourceforge.net that took place on July 1, 
2009, there are several U/I defects in the sf.net project page for 
OpenXDAS (and many other projects). The version that is displayed for 
download on the summary page is the 0.6.294 version, but this is NOT the 
latest. For quality download links, please visit the openxdas web site 
download page at:

    http://openxdas.sourceforge.net/downloads.html

Well, with each new release, we're that much closer to a functionally 
complete 1.0 release of the reference XDAS v1.0 specification. In this 
new release, we've done the following:

* We've finished the netstream logger's SSL/TLS functionality. You can 
now configure (on both Windows and Unix platforms) the netstream logger 
to use an SSL/TLS connection to a log server. You can optionally 
configure server and client authentication, as well as a desired cipher 
suite. For details, see the updated documentation for the netstream 
logger, which can be found in the newly released 0.7.320 version of the 
openxdas user and developer document. Detailed instructions are also 
provided for generating keys and certificates.

* We've also fixed a few defects that some of our newer users found in 
the filter trigger code. (Thanks Domenico!)

* We've added code to the C and Java client libraries to convert all 
control characters to spaces in XDAS field strings passed into the 
client interface. Control characters are not allowed in XDAS v1.0 input 
strings, as they cause wrapping issues, etc.

* We've enhanced the Unix build system a bit. The eXpat library was not 
being strictly required in configure.ac, so systems without eXpat or 
eXpat-devel installed would fail in make, rather than configure.

* Finally, we've converted the Visual Studio project and solutions files 
from VS 2008 to VS 2005 for compatibility with that older version. This 
shouldn't cause anyone problems, as VS 2008 will upgrade these older 
solution and project files automatically when they're opened in VS 2008. 
This allows our VS 2005 users to play also.

_*Still to be done:*_

Please note that the code is extremely clean, due to good integrated 
unit tests. The reason for the pre-1.0 version number is simply that 
we're still short a few features. The features we're still considering 
before 1.0 are:

* Import agents for (at least) Linux/Unix and Windows.

* The management API needs to be finished. We need to complete 
implementation for the filter management portion of the XDAS API.

As usually, please send feedback to the openxdas-devel or openxdas-users 
mailing lists.

Enjoy!
John