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5.8.5RC2: REST

The second release candidate for 5.8.5 contains improvements to the REST server API's type and error handling, new handler finalization specializations (reloaded, cancel, success), extension method fixes for lang.Throwable instances and the ability to use SSL versions in conjuction with CURL transports.

Go get it!

  $ cd ~/xp
  $ wget http://releases.xp-framework.net/setup/5.8.5RC2 -O - | php -- -d ~/bin/

5.8.5RC1: The web

The first release candidate for 5.8.5 fixes the problems introduced with the implementation of Pull request 121 (Case-preserving parameters / Case-insensitive lookups), and holds a bit of refactoring and improvements of the REST serverside APIs.

Go get it!

  $ cd ~/xp
  $ wget http://releases.xp-framework.net/setup/5.8.5RC1 -O - | php -- -d ~/bin/

5.8.4-RELEASE: Multiple config sources, selectable database drivers, SQLite3, MySQL local sockets, mocking library

The XP group is proud to announce the immediate availability of framework release 5.8.4. After four release candidates and about three and a half months, we deliver a bigger release, including the following:

Multiple config sources
This feature described in RFC #0221 enables combining properties from more than one source (e.g., ini-files). For example, one can now have a global, system-wide configuration and extend on that in your application. This feature is supported by "XPCLI" commands and the web runner - details can be found here.

Selectable database drivers
With more and more database protocols appearing as userland implementation (MySQL, Sybase, MSSQL), the urge to be able to chose between drivers has come up; and be it just for testing. To select a specific driver, append the implementation name to the driver, e.g. mysql+std to select ext/mysql. To retrieve the default MySQL driver, one can still use mysql://user@host DSN syntax.

SQLite3
With the deprecation of SQLIte2 in PHP 5.4, we have decided to implement SQLIte3 support in the XP Framework. At the same time, and because we now offer selectable drivers, the default is SQLIte3.

MySQL local sockets
We now support local socket connectivity in our MySQL driver implementation by using the special hostname ".": By using "mysql://./DATABASE", we connect through a local socket, while "mysql://localhost/DATABASE" uses TCP/IP. This has been unified throughout the various MySQL drivers.

Mocking library
The package unittest.mock contains the all-new mocking library. The API is modeled in a fashion similar to EasyMock (Java), Rhino Mocks (.Net). You can read all about the details in RFC #219.

...and more
We have almost 20 bugfixes and various features included in this release - all of which can be seen in the ChangeLog.

  $ cd ~/xp
  $ wget http://releases.xp-framework.net/setup/5.8.4 -O - | php -- -d ~/bin/

Enjoy

5.8.4RC4: Scriptlet parameters

We would like to announce the immediate availability of the fourth release candidate for XP 5.8.4. On top of the third RC, we have included the changes to the scriptlet API previously announced here.

You can download and install as always:

  $ cd ~/xp
  $ wget http://releases.xp-framework.net/setup/5.8.4RC4 -O - | php -- -d ~/bin/

5.8.4RC3: JSON, Configuration, Properties and FC

We would like to announce the immediate availability of the third release candidate for XP 5.8.4. On top of the second RC, we have included JSON serialization for objects, the possibility to supply multiple configuration sources for both XPCLIs and web applications based on RFC #0221, extended the util.Properties class to be case-insensitive when parsing boolean values and added a method lang.reflect.Field::getTypeName() for forward compatibility with the upcoming 5.9-SERIES.

You can download and install as always:

  $ cd ~/xp
  $ wget http://releases.xp-framework.net/setup/5.8.4RC3 -O - | php -- -d ~/bin/

5.8.4RC2

We would like to announce the immediate availability of the second release candidate for XP 5.8.4. On top of the first RC, we have included fixes for the HTTP transport based on the curl extension and bugfixes for XMLRPC deserialization. We would like to thank the contributors from over at GamePay for these patches! Also, there have been several optimization to the XP compiler in generating dependencies.

You can download and install as always:

  $ cd ~/xp
  $ wget http://releases.xp-framework.net/setup/5.8.4RC2 -O - | php -- -d ~/bin/

Enjoy

5.8.4RC1

We would like to announce the immediate availability of the first release candidate for XP 5.8.4. This release contains various fixes and enhancements like SQLite3 support in the rdbms package, as well as the extended server protocol, the first release of our mocking library, a REST client and support for combining application properties from varios sources.

You can download and install as always:

  $ cd ~/xp
  $ wget http://releases.xp-framework.net/setup/5.8.4RC1 -O - | php -- -d ~/bin/

Enjoy

5.8.3-RELEASE:

The XP group would like to announce the immediate availability of XP, version 5.8.3. This is the second production quality release based on Github infrastructure. It contains code provided by the first Github-hosted RFCs and several pull requests.
The release contains code from 7 difference developers mentioned in the ChangeLog, this went up by 1 compared to the previous release - but in 3 months development time compared to last releases' 6 months!
The release focuses on the replacement of the old JSON parser, experimental PHP 5.4 compatibility and lots of small feature additions.

For a full list of changes and to download the release, visit:
http://releases.xp-framework.net/xml/release?5.8.3

5.8.3RC1

The XP group is proud to announce the immediate availability of XP 5.8.3, release candidate 1. This release includes a revamped annotation parser in lang.XPClass, a new JSON client-side implementation with streaming capabilities, REST serverside implementation (RFC #0216) and various smaller improvements and bugfixes.

  $ cd ~/xp
  $ wget http://releases.xp-framework.net/setup/5.8.3RC1 -O - | php -- -d ~/bin/

5.8.2-RELEASE: XP is now Githubber

The XP group would like to announce the immediate availability of XP, version 5.8.2. This release is the first production release build on Github (and git, that is) infrastructure. The release is the first after almost 6 months, a longer engineering phase as usual, and thus includes quite some news: support for PHP up to 5.3.8 has been added, and a workaround for the critical PHP bug #55439 was created. For SOAP client implementations, there's now a common interface which all current implementations use. Then, util.Properties no longer use parse_ini_file(), but use our own, less changing, implementation.

In addition to the few mentioned features, there's a lot more, which is summarized in the releases ChangeLog. For a full list of changes and to download the release, visit:
http://releases.xp-framework.net/xml/release?5.8.2

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