[Dpp-announce] Saros release 13.3.22

[Michael S. <ms...@ze...>]

Saros - Distributed Party Programming for Eclipse
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Long time no see, but finally the Saros Team is proud to announce the
release of version 13.3.22.
Instead of just fixing bugs, this release provides you with a bunch of
new features:

  * Saros now supports session-independent 1-to-1 chats enabling a
    direct communication with your buddies.

  * The multi user chat has been improved by providing more and better
    notifications as well as fixes.

  * We introduced a new color management, which tries to ensure that you
    always get the same colors in your session, independent of who started
    the session in the first
    place.
    To achieve this, we had to restrict the freedom of choosing any RGB
    color to a strict five-color-mode,
    which has been optimized for readability and distinguishability --
    even for color blind users.  However, you can still change your 
    preferred color in the Saros Preferences under "Saros" > "Appearance".

  * Since the computation of the contribution annotations 
    (who wrote what) are CPU intense, we made this an optional feature. 
    You can now disable the computation in the preferences
    under "Saros" > "Advanced" > uncheck "Show contribution annotations".

  * Furthermore, only the session host can invite additional users to a
    running session.
    This was a neccessary regression to gain more stability and ensure
    data integrity.

Additionally, you will find many minor fixes and usability improvements.
Check out the changelog below for more information.

For stability reasons some internal changes have been made.
As a consequence Saros 13.3.22 is *not* compatible with previous versions,
so that all session participants need Saros 13.3.22 (or later) to work
together.

Install and update Saros 13.3.22 via our Eclipse Update Site:
http://dpp.sf.net/update

For more information visit http://www.saros-project.org.
Please note that we upgraded our website, which got a new design and a
far better structure.

Many thanks to the users who participated in our survey and to everyone
who helped us improve our plug-in!


Best Regards,
Saros-Team