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The vaniglia team is very proud to announce the general availability of release 0.5.0.
We made many features improvements in this release and here's the change log:

0.5.0 (23-Nov-2008)
- Parser improvements:
- Fields PreProcessors. Currently These are the available FieldsPreProcessors:
- SubstringPreProcessor. This preprocessor will allow to use only a substring of the field.
- TrimPreProcessor. This preprocessors allows the removal of any leading and/or trailing characters in the field.
- StringAppenderPreProcessor. This preprocessors allows to add a prefix and/or a suffix to the field.... read more

The Vaniglia Team is proud to announce that release 0.5.0 is only days from the final release. There have been a lot of bug fixing and some very interesting improvements in the Parser (by far the most used component).
This the change log so far:
- Parser improvements:
- Fields and Record Processors.
- Better handling of empty lines.
- Comments on Parser's file.
- Field's default value
- Constant fields
- TimestampType. Is a type of field that can be used to parse plain timestamp (seconds or milliseconds
since Jan, 1st 1970). Here's an example:
<TimestampFieldType isJavaTimestamp="false" outputFormat="dd/MM/yyyy"/>... read more

We just release a bug fixing release (0.4.0.1) that fixes some bug on the log4j module and on the message queue module.

We are proud to announce the availability of the new Vaniglia 0.4.0.
This is the list of changes in the latest release:

0.4.0 (28-Jan-2008)
- Added module Vaniglia Message Queue (VMQ). This is a presistent queue of message that can have a delivery
timestamp. The current implementation can only be used for interprocess communication. Future version will
be improved to allow the same queue to be used from multiple processes.... read more

The new release of Vaniglia (0.4.0) is expected to be released during the summer.

So far the main changes are:
- Added module Vaniglia Message Queue (VMQ). This is a presistent queue of message that can have a delivery timestamp.
- Added a new log4j appender. RollingFileFoldersBackupAppender.
- Performance Monitor improvements:
- Latency can also be tracked.
- Latency can also be used for alarms.
- Corrected a bug on the Socket Protocol Module. The ConnectionPoolSocketClient wasn't using any of the reconnection parameter.

Hi all.
Vaniglia 0.3.0 will be available by next monday (16/04/2007) and this is the ChangeLog of this new release:
Vaniglia 0.3.0
- Added a module log4j with log4j appenders. The only one in this release is RollingFileDailyFolderAppender.

- Parser improvements:
- Improved performances with recovery
- New Field Type: CharType (Single character field).
- Field Validators. Currently the following validators are implemented:
- NotNullValidator
- CharsetValidator
- LengthValidator
- Custom class field validator.... read more

The next release of vaniglia (0.3.0) that will be available soon as 3 new modules:

- Extension Framework: This module is intented to be used for simple extension (plugin like) for applications.

- Crypto: This module is intented to be a simple way to use encryption without having to deal with all the boring details.

- Socket Communication Framework: This module is intented to be used for simple socket-based communication protocols. It features reconnection, connection pooling and many others basic functionalities of every communication procotol.... read more