Saros - Distributed Party Programming / News: Recent posts

The Saros team is proud to announce the release of version 10.3.26.

This release is a very important one for our users, as it includes some exciting new features that make the Saros usage experience so much richer right out of the box.

Communicating using Saros is now a whole lot easier. We now provide an in-built instant messenging services to send text messages to your peers, as well as a VoIP service for when you want to speak with them.... read more

This is an intermediate release to fix an installation issue that was affecting a small number of users. It resolves the problem that installation was not possible without JUnit 4 libraries.

For more detailed information about the work done since version 10.1.29, see the release notes for version 10.2.26.

Install and update from Eclipse: http://dpp.sf.net/update.

For more information on Saros, visit: http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/w/SE/DPP.... read more

The Saros Team is proud to announce the release of version 10.2.26.r2037.

In this release we have concentrated on improving the stability of Saros
and making some very important internal changes for a number of exciting
upcoming new features.

Install and update from Eclipse: http://dpp.sf.net/update.

For more information on Saros, visit: http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/w/SE/DPP.

Many thanks to users who participated in our survey and to everyone who
helped us improve our plugin!... read more

The Saros Team is proud to announce the release of version 10.1.29r1970.

In this current release we have focused our efforts on performance improvements and bug-fixing. The performance of the invitation process is now much improved.

Install and update from Eclipse: http://dpp.sf.net/update

Many thanks to users who participated in our survey and to everyone who
helped us improve our plugin!

Changelog:... read more

The Saros Team is proud to announce the release of version 9.12.04.r1878.

In the Release we focused mostly on File Operation in Eclipse. We are proud to say that copy, move, delete and rename operations are no longer a problem. For a detail view of bug fixes and other changes made in this release see the following changelog.

Install and update from Eclipse: http://dpp.sf.net/update

Many thanks to users who participated in our survey and to everyone who
helped us improve our plugin!... read more

The Saros Team is proud to announce the release of version 9.10.30.r1833.

In this release we focused on improvements in the invitation module.
It is completely replaced, it supports now non-blocking invitations.
That means while users are invited, the host can continue
working and doesn't need to wait.

Install and update from Eclipse: http://dpp.sf.net/update

Many thanks to users who participated in our survey and to everyone who
helped us improve our plugin!... read more

The Saros Team is proud to announce the release of version 9.10.2.r1803.

In this release we focused on improvements in the invitation module. Saros can now handle character encodings. Invitation process can now be cancelled at any stage.

Install and update from Eclipse: http://dpp.sf.net/update

Many thanks to users who participated in our survey and to everyone who
helped us improve our plugin!

Changelog:... read more

The Saros Team is proud to announce the release of version 9.9.11.r1706.

In this release we focused on awareness, feedback statistics and of course:
bug fixing.
* Now users can see whether their peers' Eclipse window is
active by taking a look at the roster view. A small clock icon indicates
if a user is "away".
* Users can use a pseudonym when submitting statistical data

Many thanks to users who participated in our survey and to everyone who
helped us improve our plugin!... read more

The Saros Team is proud to announce the release of version 9.8.21.r1660.

In this release we focused on lots and lots of bug fixing and some
improvements to the network module. Now file transfers and activities
can be much larger and still be transmitted much faster. We also
added support for Eclipse PHP Development Tools (PDT).

Install and update from Eclipse: http://dpp.sf.net/update

Changelog:... read more

The Saros Team is proud to announce the release of our fourth beta version 9.7.31.1565.

In the last three weeks Saros has improved most notably with regards to

* ...Display of user names.

* ...Role changes.

* ...Preferences dialogs layouts.

* ...Experimental concurrent undo.

Many thanks to all users of Saros who have participated in our 3 minute user survey at the end of every fifth session!

Install and update from Eclipse: http://dpp.sf.net/update... read more

The Saros Team is proud to announce the release of our third beta version 9.6.23.

In the last three weeks Saros has improved most notably with regards to

* ...supporting the use of the same Jabber-ID for Saros and a normal instant messaging client.

* ...only sharing parts of a project.

* ...various problems in the synchronisation and invitation process.

* ...the collection of anonymous usage statistics for our research project.... read more

Saros 9.5.29 is the first release after our beta-release 9.5.8 and is packed with bug-fixes. In particular we have improved the consistency recovery and improved support while debugging an application. On the feature side, Saros now has much better dialogs for initial configuration of Jabber accounts and servers, which are shown at first start and offers the possibility to skip the synchronisation (needs to be enabled in the preferences). This release is also the first with which we want to gather some scientific data about distributed pair programming (this is a research project after all). To this end Saros will ask you after every fifth session (configurable, of course) whether you want to participate in a short survey.... read more