easyrec 1.0 released!

Hello all!

It has been a veeerrrrryyy long time since our last official release but finally we are proud to annouce the availability of easyrec 1.0.
We have added a new JSON based profile system in the new release which enables the use of content based recommendation approaches in addition to
the existing action based ones. Therefore - after all those years in beta - we feel confident to call easyrec feature complete (for the time being) and
think the move to 1.0 is justified.

So, what's new in easyrec 1.0?

• a JSON based profile API that enables the storage of bits of metadata along with items (please note: to use all new API functions the API URL change to /1.1 from /1.0)
• a User Profile Aggregator plugin that enables the aggregation of user profiles by analyzing the metadata of items a user acted on
• a Solr based matcher plugin to match items to users based on their respective profiles
• a Session-to-User mapping feature that can map actions of anonymous users to registered user if they log in during a session
• ordered plugin execution: plugins now get executed in the order of the assocType id. This enables plugin dependencies i.e. plugins that depend on another plugin to be executed before they can work
• an AngularJS service for easyrec client integration
• an all new API tester page in the admin GUI to test all API calls interactively
• ability to assign a weight value to actionTypes; this can be useful when developing plugins and have different actions influencing the recommendations according to their weights
• pagination support on many api calls
• a reworked backtracking system that now provides its own API call
• Several features & improvements that benefit bigger installations with many tenants:
  - RunCondition enabled interface for plugins: before execution a plugin can check if its execution is actually necessary based on an arbitrary run condition
  - completely rewritten scheduler
  - ability to search for tenants & operators in the admin GUI
  - optimized some SQL
• backend framework updates
• and of course several bugfixes and small improvements

As always you can download the latest version of easyrec here:

Also, due to a lot of updates on sourceforge since our last release, almost all of the support infrastructure (wiki, forum, tickets,...) have moved to new systems and URLs.
The new links are as follows:

The official project page can be found at:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/easyrec/

For information on how to install and run easyrec, please refer to our wiki:
https://sourceforge.net/p/easyrec/wiki/Home/

If you encounter problems, have any questions or suggestions, please have
a look at our forum at:
https://sourceforge.net/p/easyrec/forum/

You find news about the project via

• blog: https://sourceforge.net/p/easyrec/blog/
• facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/easyrec/112083432158656
• twitter: https://twitter.com/easyrec

The source code can be found at:
https://sourceforge.net/p/easyrec/code/ci/master/tree/

As always, we hope you enjoy our project.

Greetings and happy coding

The easyrec team