[Opensync-users] OpenSync Release 0.38

[Bjoern R. <b....@fh...>]

Hi everyone,

we finally released OpenSync 0.38. To keep more people up-to-date we are 
planning to arrange IRC meetings every Thursday. You can find the 
details in the release notes.

Release Notes:

Yet another E.X.P.E.R.I.M.E.N.T.A.L. release of OpenSync. This release 
is intended for developers, testers and for packages. OpenSync 0.3x 
releases aren't intended to be stable. We don't recommend this release 
for productive use. We don't recommend this release to be packaged as 
part of a distribution.

--- end of sad/scary disclamer ---

Late but no too late. We are behind our roadmap again, but the next 
stable version 0.40  is getting much closer.

Changes since last release:
   
    - Many updates and fixes for the OSyncPluginConfig API
        - Introduced osync_plugin_advancedoption_get_minsize .. to set 
minsize and avoid min values e.g. 0
        - Added MinSize in plugin_config schema for AdvancedOption
        - Introduced osync_plugin_connection_set_type()
        - Introduce initial interface of OSyncPluginConfig "supported" 
flags. Details:
            - Purpose of those supported flags are to give the 
Frontend/UIs information which option are supported by the plugin and 
should be disabled.
            This allows to generate "smart" UIs which only show 
option/fields which are really supported by the plugin at all.
            For OSyncPluginConnection there are two supported status flags:
            1. ConnectionFlags - e.g. USB, Bluetooth, ... to generate 
bitmask of multiple supported connection types/transports.
            2. ConnectionOptionFlags - e.g. RFCommChannel, Port, URL, ...
        - Added a Preferred element to the Formats. Details: r3659
    - Updated example-plugin for current api
    - Reenabled plain to xmlformat-*-doc conversion
    - Made osync_assert public. Now plugin developers are able to use 
osync_assert instead of g_assert or assert.
    - Packaging with CPack
    - OpenSync raises an error message if a plugin cannot be loaded
    - Added sanity check for file-sync. file-sync only supports "file" 
format, which encapsulates the other formats.
    - Improved sorting of OSyncXMLFormat fields ( introduced 
osync_xmlformat_is_sorted(), ...)
    - Only active OSyncObjTypeSinks for Enbaled/Activated Resources: 
Ticket #817
    - Introduced Coverter Cache to cache already encountered format 
converter paths. This should accelerate the conversion.
    - Syncml-plugin ported to OSyncPluginConfig
    - Syncml migrated to new high level API of libsyncml (thanks a lot 
to Micheal Bell for his great work on syncml)
    - New initialize and finalize functions for format plugins to store 
format plugin related data, e.g. XML schemas.
    - Plugins which are migrated to 0.38:
        - file-sync
        - syncml (requires libsyncml 0.5.0)
        - google-calendar (beta)
        - tomboy-sync (beta)
        - opie-sync (?)

Project IRC Meetings
        - Start of regular IRC Meetings
        - every Thursday
        - even Calendar Weeks: 09:00 UTC
        - odd Calendar Weeks: 14:00 UTC
        - Duration: 1hour
        - Minutes get sent to opensync-devel@ mailing list (latest after 
24h)
        - First meeting: 2008-11-13T09:00:00Z
        - Next minutes: dgollub
        - Channel: #opensync

Next steps:
    - Bugfixing
        - OpenSync core
        - vformat plugin
    - Finalize the limited API
    - Schema freezes
    - Finishing !OpenSync Whitepaper
    - Generic XSLT format plugin
    - Porting other plugins to latest changes for 0.3X
    - Fixing python wrapper
        - We still need a python developer, who can fix it. If any 
volunteer read this. please send a mail to the mailing list!

Release tarballs:
http://opensync.org/download/releases/0.38/

Thanks to everyone for actively contributing to the OpenSync project by 
testing, writing code, updating tickets (special thanks to Felix 
Moeller) and keeping the project alive!

-- 
/Bjoern Ricks