Ubicore 3.8 released

We are happy to announce a new release of Ubicore, Makewave's Remote Management System for OSGi frameworks.

The new Ubicore 3.8 includes a KF Pro 3.5 based management agent, as well as several other fixes on both the server and the OSGi client management side.

Customers can download the Ubicore 3.8 release from the customer download area.

Regards,
Makewave Team

Knopflerfish Pro 3.5 is released

We are happy to annouce the release of Knopflerfish Pro 3.5. The new version is available from the customer download site along-side with the 3.5 versions of Knopflerfish Pro Premium and Knopflerfish Pro CVIS. 

The Knopflerfish Pro 3.5 version include several improvement in the framework, the OSGi compendium services as well as the Knopflerfish services, resulting in a faster and more robust Knopflerfish Pro OSGi.

The most important changes are:

• Stability issues corrected in the Knopflerfish OSGi framework
• Several stability issues corrected in Declarative Services (SCR), e.g. potential race conditions, re-bind and re-registration issues.
• Corrected resource / memory leak in User Admin
• Framework commands supports printing thread stack traces and filter which threads to show.
• SCR commands now support showing "satisfied" or "unsatisfied" applications.
• Corrected issued preventing Eclipse Gemini Blueprint from running correctly on Knopflerfish
• New major version of Ubicore mgmt agent provisioning API (Pro only)
• Stability issues corrected in UPnP CP (Pro only)
• UPnP Device now supports specific interface names, in addition to IP addresses. Stability improvements and minor bugs corrected (Pro only)
• Application Manager updated to new mgmt agent API as well as stability improvements (Pro Premium only)
• Improved image rendering in UI packages as well as minor corrections and fixes (Pro Premium only)

A new versions of Ubicore, which will have a Knopflerfish Pro 3.5 based client, will be released shortly.

/Christer

Knopflerfish Pro 3.4 is released

Knopflerfish Pro 3.4 has been released and is available from the customer download site along-side with the 3.4 version of Knopflerfish Pro Premium. The 3.4 version include several improvement in the framework, the OSGi compendium services as well as the Knopflerfish services, resulting in a faster and more robust Knopflerfish Pro OSGi.

The most important changes are:

• Several stability issues corrected in SCR (Declarative Services), e.g. correcting potential deadlocks and improved circular component reference handling.
• New SCR display in KF Desktop, showing information on SCR components.
• Corrected potential race conditions in framework.
• Updated framework / system bundle symbolic name, version and other header values.
• Corrected NPE in EventAdmin when handling unregistered services.
• An http console command group has been added to the HTTP server for inspecting the HTTP server and its settings and status.
• Several stability issues and improvement in UPnP CP and UPnP Device, e.g. improved robustness and better error handling if other devices fail to follow the UPnP spec., retry of device refresh upon failures, corrected threading issues when adding or removing devices, corrections in subscription id handling. (Pro only)

New versions of Ubicore and Knopflerfish Pro CVIS, based on the new KF Pro version, are scheduled for update releases in the very near future.

/Makewave Team

Knopflerfish Pro 3.3 released

Knopflerfish Pro 3.3 has been released and is available from the customer download site along-side with the 3.3 versions of Knopflerfish Pro Premium and Knopflerfish Pro CVIS. The 3.3 version include several improvement in the framework, the OSGi compendium services as well as the Knopflerfish services, resulting in a faster and more robust Knopflerfish Pro OSGi.

The most important changes are:

• Corrected framework stability issues, e.g. detecting and abort recursive service factory calls, issue with deadlock in service listeners
• SCR (component) now supports the Felix SCR API. This is used by the new SCR Commands bundle, see below
• scrcommands - new console command group bundle for controlling and inspecting service components
• Corrected stability issues in SCR, Event Admin, CM and HTTP
• Enhanced support for Android, including support for Android 4 and handling the crippled java security classes in Dalvik
• Improved bundle sort order in desktop
• HTTP PUT and DELETE supported by HttpClientConnector
• Corrected DMT Admin stability issues (Pro only)
• Added support for Terminal bound Applications in mgmt agent and monitor admin (Pro only)
• Corrected stability issues in UPnP CP and UPnP Device bundles (Pro only)
• Corrected minor issues in Appmanager (Pro Premium only)
• More Appmanager example applications (Pro Premium only)

The open source Knopflerfish 3.3 is released at the same time and is available at the Knopflerfish project: http://www.knopflerfish.org 

/Christer 

OSGi Developers Course, 8-10 Nov, Göteborg, Sweden

We will be organizing our OSGi Developers Course on 8-10 November in Gothenburg, Sweden. This is an comprehensive introductory course that will provide you with

• a solid understanding of What OSGi is
• hands-on experience in  How to use OSGi

The course is 3 days. Open to anyone who want to learn and master modular Java.

There is more information on this course and our other courses at the OSGi Training page.

Sign-up now as seats are limited!

Looking forward in seeing you in Gothenburg

/Christer

Ubicore 3.6 released

There is a new release available of Ubicore, Makewave's Remote Management System for OSGi frameworks. The new 3.6 includes a KF Pro 3.2.0.1 based management agent, as well as several other fixes on both the server and the management agent.

Customers can download the Ubicore 3.6 release from the customer download area.

Regards,
Makewave Team

Knopflerfish Pro 3.2 released

Knopflerfish Pro 3.2 has been released and is available from the customer download site along-side with the 3.2 versions of Knopflerfish Pro Premium and Knopflerfish Pro CVIS. The 3.2 version include several improvement in the framework, the OSGi compendium services as well as the Knopflerfish services, resulting in a faster and more robust Knopflerfish Pro OSGi.
The most important new features are:

• Refactored fragment handling and full support for dynamic fragment attachment
• Improved HTTP server, better handling persistent connections as well as handling DoS attacks
• Fixed stability issues in Component (SCR)
• Fixed stability issues in UPnP CP and Device (Pro)
• Improved Android / Dalvik support
• New tutorials for Security and Android
• Performance and stability improvement in UI2 and appmanager (Premium)
• New Twitter bundles for sending twitter messages (Premium)

The open source Knopflerfish 3.2 is released at the same time at the Knopflerfish project: http://www.knopflerfish.org