[Opensync-users] OpenSync release 0.19

[Daniel G. <dg...@su...>]

Hi everyone,

I'm happy to announce the general availability of OpenSync 0.19, after=20
many, many changes and 11 month of intense development.

These are the highlights of this release:
o IPC, which enables OpenSync to run each plugin as a separate
  process
o added a VCalendar converter
o improved the ICalendar converter
o simplified filtering off object types (e.g. disable syncing of memos)
o 4 additional plugins, boosting the number of plugins up to 14
o Support for a wide range of applications and devices.

The OpenSync project is eagerly seeking for contributors. If you are=20
interested in testing plugins, writing new code, fixing bugs, creating=20
tutorials, improving documentation, join our IRC channel #opensync on=20
irc.freenode.org or subscribe to the OpenSync -users and/or -devel=20
mailing list:

	https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensync-users
	https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensync-devel

OpenSync is still in early stages of development. Please don't sync=20
without a _full backup_ and only sync if you are able to restore from=20
your backup! Please follow the plugin's README prior to using a plugin!

OpenSync 0.19 and most of it's appendant plugins have been packaged with=20
the openSUSE Build Service and are available for Mandriva 2006, Fedora=20
Core 5, SUSE Linux 10.0 and 10.1 at:

http://software.opensuse.org/download/OpenSync/

Debian and Ubuntu packages are being provided by Matthias Jahn at:

http://www.in.fh-merseburg.de/~jahn/opensync/

Source Tarballs:
http://www.opensync.org/wiki/download

The 0.20 release will be a bug fixing release and is hopefully following=20
in a few weeks. Armin will soon be releasing a testing release of the=20
devel branch, which includes brand-new core features, such as improved=20
filtering (enabling/disabling) of object types, improved performance of=20
syncing, no more memory leaks, a reworked schema of the internal XML=20
format and so one. Stay tuned!

Many thanks to everyone who helped getting this release out the door,=20
especially (sorted alphabetically):

Andrew Baumann,
Christopher Stender,
Daniel Friedrich,
Eduardo Pereira Habkost,
Markus Meyer,
Matthias Jahn,

and everyone in #opensync on freenode,
all on the OpenSync users and development mailing list,
the openSUSE Build Service team @ Novell

And last, but not least, a big thankyou to Armin for his great work on=20
OpenSync!

Have fun!
Daniel