[Communicator-user] Announcing the release of GalaxyCommunicator 3.2

[Samuel L. B. <sa...@mi...>]

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We are, as usual, pleased and relieved to announce the availability of
Galaxy Communicator 3.2.

In addition to bug fixes, version 3.2 includes a major enhancement of
the documentation, featuring a self-contained, self-guided tutorial on
the Galaxy Communicator infrastructure. This tutorial is a completely
updated and reorganized version of the Galaxy Communicator course
which has been taught at MITRE in the past. We've redesigned this
course to be more consistent, easier to run, and easier to
understand. We have also made a number of improvements to supporting
tools, most significantly the unit test utility, which is now a
powerful graphical tool. It allows you to connect to a Hub pretending
to be a server, or to a server pretending to be a Hub, and its
graphical interface allows you to respond to incoming messages and to
send new messages of your own, and keeps a mouseable history. Due to
its dependence on Python, the new tutorial is not yet available on
Windows, but should be in the next major release (4.0). Version 3.2
also includes a better PDF version of the documentation (available now
as a separate download due to its size), and completely updated
documentation for the Python and Allegro bindings.

The GalaxyCommunicator 3.2 distribution comes with extensive
documentation (see docs/index.html), a detailed list of new features
(see docs/new_features.html), and an upgrade guide for 3.1
installations to 3.2 (see docs/3point2upgrade.html).

Upgrade assistance and guidance is also available at
bug...@li.... Please direct all bugs, as usual, to
bug...@li...; please do not send mail directly to
members of the Communicator team.

The GalaxyCommunicator 3.2 release is an open source distribution. It
is available at http://communicator.sourceforge.net/download.

Samuel Bayer 
For the Communicator team