OpenLaszlo 4.8.1 is Released!

OpenLaszlo 4.7 is Available Now

OpenLaszlo 4.6.1 is Available

We are pleased to announce the release of OpenLaslzo 4.6.1, which can be 
downloaded here: http://www.openlaszlo.org/download. OpenLaszlo 4.6.1 is 
a bug fix release, containing more than 50 fixes primarily in the area 
of mouse events, context menus, and text. These fixes resulted from an 
architectural simplification of the underlying event and text 
mechanisms, which has the dual effect of both simplifying and 
stabilizing the DHTML code base. In addition, there were significant 
data and replication fixes thanks to André Bargull.

OpenLaszlo 4.6.1 also contains two significant improvements from 
community contributors. Sebastian Wagner extended the output of RPC with 
Gson as the marshaller for JSON. More details are provided in Bug 
LPP-8437, including how to write your own marshaller and how to get the 
Gson Factory to set your custom marshalling options. Raju Bitter added 
support for rotation in DHTML using FireFox 3.5, and fixed the default 
rotation origin to be top left or 0% for DHTML. See BUG LPP-8362 for 
more details. A complete list of bugs fixed in this release can be 
viewed at: http://www.openlaszlo.org/jira/secur...equestId=11021

For those of you who have already upgraded your applications to 
OpenLaszlo 4.2 or higher, no further work is needed. You should just 
start using OpenLaszlo 4.6.1.

We would like to thank the entire OpenLaszlo community for submitting 
bug fixes and participating in discussions to help make OpenLaszlo a 
better platform. Special thanks to André Bargull and Raju Bitter for 
their continued and amazing support of the project. We'd also like to 
thank the incredible engineering team at G.ho.st, who have worked with 
us as a sponsor to bring SWF9 and many other improvements to the 
community. Special recognition is also due to community contributors: 
Chad Lancour, Rami Ojares, Philip Romanik, and Jason Gratt.

For more details, please see the Release Notes, which are available 
here: http://www.openlaszlo.org/lps4.6/release-notes.html

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OpenLaszlo 4.5 is Available

We are pleased to announce the release of OpenLaszlo 4.5, which is a bug 
fix release with more than 35 bugs addressed since the OpenLaszlo 4.4.1 
release. Bug fixes were primarily in the area of inputtext selection and 
focus in the DHTML runtime, and in some cases, in the SWF8 and SWF9 
runtimes as well. OpenLaszlo 4.5 is the recommended platform for all 
application development in the SWF8, SWF9, and DHTML runtimes.

You can download the OpenLaszlo 4.5 release here: 
http://www.openlaszlo.org/download. You can review the bug fixes using 
our JIRA bug tracking system here: 
http://www.openlaszlo.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?mode=hide&requestId=11011. 
For more information, we suggest you read the Release Notes, found here: 
http://download.openlaszlo.org/4.5/release-notes.html

For every release, we rely on the OpenLaszlo community to help ensure 
the quality of the platform release and to determine its future 
direction. To propose or participate in discussion of new features, see 
the Wiki (http://wiki.openlaszlo.org). We encourage you to report any 
problems, and to make suggestions for enhancements, through our JIRA bug 
tracking system (http://www.openlaszlo.org/jira/browse/lpp). We'd also 
like to hear from you on the mailing lists and in the forums.

OpenLaszlo Credits

We would like to thank the entire OpenLaszlo community for submitting 
bug fixes and participating in discussions to help make OpenLaszlo a 
better platform. Special thanks to André Bargull and Raju Bitter for 
their continued and amazing support of the project. We'd also like to 
thank the incredible engineering team at G.ho.st, who have worked with 
us as a sponsor to bring SWF9 and many other improvements to the 
community. Special recognition is due to community contributors: Philip 
Romanik, Sarah Allen, and Jason Gratt.

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OpenLaszlo 4.2.0.2 Released

We are pleased to announce that OpenLaszlo 4.2.0.2 is available now. You 
can download it from the OpenLaszlo Download page 
(http://www.openlaszlo.org/download).

OpenLaszlo 4.2.0.2 is the next fully-qualified release since OpenLaszlo 
4.2.0.1, and is the recommended platform for all application development 
in the SWF8, SWF9, and DHTML runtimes. For those of you who have already 
upgraded your applications to OpenLaszlo 4.2, no further work is needed. 
You should just start using OpenLaszlo 4.2.0.2.

The 4.2.0.2 release includes more than 30 major bug fixes since 4.2.0.1; 
we have provided a link to the OpenLaszlo JIRA bug tracking system where 
you can view the details: 
(http://www.openlaszlo.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?mode=hide&requestId=10911)

In addition to bug fixes, OpenLaszlo 4.2.0.2 contains two areas of 
improvement: documentation comments feature and compiler performance 
improvements:

       The documentation comments feature adds a section at the end of 
every documentation page where you can add an example or comment that 
expands upon the existing documentation or shows a non-obvious usage of 
a feature (or work-around for a bug that you have already filed) in 
OpenLaszlo. Documentation bugs or feature requests should be filed in 
our bug tracking system as in previous releases.

       The compiler should be faster with 4.2.0.2 as compared to 
4.2.0.1. The script cache is now disabled by default. Please note that 
setting the server logging level to DEBUG will slow down the 
compilation, due to the large amount of debugging information that is 
logged on the server. The DEBUG level logging is off by default.

For those of you who have 4.0.x or 4.1.1 applications, we strongly 
suggest that you refer to this wiki page: Runtime_Differences. This page 
discusses the changes required by SWF9 and also provides a methodology 
for upgrading your application. It is very important that you run the 
automated conversion scripts in the recommended order, should you choose 
to take advantage of them.

As always, we appreciate your involvement and OpenLaszlo reaps the 
benefit of your expertise and commitment. We'd like to especially thank 
the following folks out there in the community who helped make this 
release by suggesting improvements, filing bugs, creating test cases, 
and contributing fixes: the team at IBM, Andre Bargull, Sebastian 
Wagner, Raju Bitter, Gilad Parann-Nissany, Ammar Sh. Tazami, Justin 
Clift, Mohammad ZeinEddin, Michael Jessup, and Nasser Najjar.

OpenLaszlo 4.2.0.1 Released Today

Hi,

We are pleased to announce that OpenLaszlo 4.2.0.1 is available now.

OpenLaszlo 4.2.0.1 is the next fully-qualified release since OpenLaszlo 
4.2, and is the recommended platform for all application development in 
the SWF8, SWF9, and DHTML runtimes. This release addresses critical 
user-reported bugs primarily in the swf9 runtime, but also in DHTML.

For those of you who have already upgraded your applications to 
OpenLaszlo 4.2, no further work is needed. You should just start using 
OpenLaszlo 4.2.0.1, which you can download at 
http://www.openlaszlo.org/download.

For those of you who have 4.0.x or 4.1.1 applications, we strongly 
suggest that you refer to this wiki page: 
http://wiki.openlaszlo.org/Runtime_Differences. This page discusses the 
changes required by SWF9 and also provides a methodology for upgrading 
your application. It is very important that you run the automated 
conversion scripts in the recommended order, should you choose to take 
advantage of them.

The 4.2.0.1 release includes almost 30 major bug fixes since 4.2; you 
can view the details using the OpenLaszlo JIRA bug tracking system 
(http://www.openlaszlo.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?mode=hide&requestId=10880).

As always, we appreciate your involvement and OpenLaszlo reaps the 
benefit of your expertise and committment. We'd like to especially thank 
the following folks out there in the community who helped make this 
release by suggesting improvements, filing bugs, creating test cases, 
and contributing fixes: Andre Bargull, Sebastian Wagner, Ammar Sh. 
Tazami, Justin Clift, Mohammad ZeinEddin, Michael Jessup, and Nasser 
Najjar.

Thanks!
Amy Muntz
OpenLaszlo Manager

nbopenlaszlosupport

OpenLaszlo 4.0.7 Released

OpenLaszlo 4.0.7 is now available.

OpenLaszlo 4.0.7 is a bug fix release with one new feature, an improved 
bug reporting mechanism in the debugger. OpenLaszlo 4.0.7 is the 
recommended release for swf development. You can download it at 
http://www.openlaszlo.org/download.

OpenLaszlo 4.0.7 fixes the following bugs:
LPP-1636 - Scripts do not handle spaces in path names
LPP-2593 - Trunk: lzc and lzc.bat will not run in a standard Windows 
configuration
LPP-4099 - Can't get onerror event while loading resources from 403 
forbidden image links
LPP-4142 - LZC arguments that use an equal sign (such as --runtime=swf8) 
do not work on the Windows command line (cmd).
LPP-4664 - test/explicit-replicators/replicator.lzx visually deletes 
last two items when the second-to-last item is clicked and ...
LPP-4719 - Provide a way to output relevant debug info to copy/paste 
into mail
LPP-4737 - Empty graphic seen when you navigate to the OL app without 
Flash
LPP-4784 - OL4.0.5, tag and SWF : 
http://www.openlaszlo.org/lps4/lps/components/extensions/test/html-swf.jsp 
NOT WORKING
LPP-4843 - Error parsing arguments to lzc using native Windows
LPP-4844 - ondata event not triggered when dataset loads v4.0.5 SWF
LPP-4884 - All small applications, except weather, will fail to display 
in IE7/swf.
LPP-4906 - Laszlo Explorer, incorrect text
LPP-4999 - IE resets history to #0 after visiting another site and 
pressing the back button
LPP-5004 - Generate Release Notes for 4.0.7
LPP-5012 - Multiple calls to callJS fails in Firefox
LPP-5016 - _parse gets called before canvas is initialized
LPP-5070 - Videos not playing in YouTube demo

OpenLaszlo 4.0.7 has the following improvement:
The bugReport method of the Debugger can be used to create a report 
suitable for copy/pasting into a bug report. To use it, enable 
backtraces and debugging, then inspect the error message that you 
believe reveals a bug, then invoke Debug.bugReport() in the debugger. 
Copy and paste the output of that call into your bug report. This 
process is described in more detail in the Debugging chapter of the 
OpenLaszlo Developer's Guide (See 
http://www.openlaszlo.org/documentation)

Support for DHTML applications remains at "beta" level; it will be fully 
supported with OL 4.1. Until then, you can find the most recent DHTML 
bug fixes and support in the trunk branch (4.x nightly builds).

OpenLaszlo 4.0.6 Released

OpenLaszlo 4.0.6 is a bugfix release with a few changes since OpenLaszlo 
4.0.5 and is the recommended 4.X release for swf development. You can 
download it at http://www.openlaszlo.org/download.

OpenLaszlo 4.0.6 fixed the following bugs:
LPP-4175 - DHTML calendar demo wigs out on opening Event Info
LPP-4731 - reloading browser page causes history to trigger "back" 
action
LPP-4746 - Javascript errors when using the history mechanism in swf7
LPP-4778 - "LzView#setX(..)" and "LzView#setY(..)" optimization breaks 
xoffset / yoffset
LPP-4779 - Put under debug flag - version info and init timer from LZPIX
LPP-4857 - dojo.flash.comm errors on firefox os x
LPP-4615 - Override resource declarations
LPP-4793 - Using clonenumber emits warning when using replicator

In general, OpenLaszlo 4.0.6 begins a new strategy, where we intend to 
offer point releases more frequently to address specific bug fixes. By 
looking at JIRA, you will see that many bugs are fixed in trunk (4.x), 
our active development branch. However, we understand that many people 
aren't comfortable moving to the latest, less stable development branch, 
so we are going to spin more frequent releases from the 4.0.x branch to 
provide qualified releases of significant bug fixes more quickly to the 
community. The next point release is named "Cranberry" and you can view 
the bug fixes currently scheduled for it on the OpenLaszlo Roadmap in 
JIRA (http://www.openlaszlo.org/jira/browse/lpp). You can preview the 
Cranberry release by downloading of the 4.0.x nightly builds.

Support for DHTML applications remains at "beta" level; it will be fully 
supported with OL 4.1. Until then, you can find the most recent DHTML 
bug fixes and support in the trunk branch (4.x nightly builds).

OpenLaszlo 4.0.5 Available - Recommended SWF Platform

We are pleased to announce that OpenLaszlo 4.0.5 is available. You can
download the software here: http://www.openlaszlo.org/download.

OpenLaszlo 4.0.5 is the recommended platform for .swf development. With
OpenLaszlo 4.0.5, there is no longer any reason to continue application
development using OpenLaszlo 3.4. This release has been qualified the
Laszlo Systems Quality Assurance team and users in the community.
Over 100 improvements have been made since OpenLaszlo 4.0.3, including
fixes from community members and the OpenLaszlo team.  For a complete
list, see the Release Notes, found here: 
http://www.openlaszlo.org/documentation.

In addtion, OpenLaszlo 4.0.5 added a new feature: explicit replication,
which enables data-driven replication as an explicit syntax tag in LZX. 
You
can read more about it in the proposal on the wiki: 
http://wiki.openlaszlo.org/Explicit_Replication.
There will be more detailed documentation in upcoming releases.

And, for those of you following the releases closely - What happened to
version 4.0.4? We skipped a number. We don't like 404s.

Keep in mind that support for applications to DHTML remains at "beta"
level; it will be fully supported with OL 4.1 (code name RingDing in
Jira).  You can see the latest and greatest by downloading the nightly
builds of 4.x trunk at http://www.openlaszlo.org/download.

For every release, we rely on the OpenLaszlo community to help ensure
the quality of the platform release and to participate in determining 
its future
direction. We encourage you to report any problems, and to make
suggestions for enhancements, through our JIRA bug tracking system.

Thank you all for your efforts towards making OpenLaszlo 4.0.5 our 
officially
recommended SWF platform.

Amy Muntz
OpenLaszlo Manager

www.openlaszlo.org

Thanks to Raju, Bitter, there is an end-to-end application and a 
corresponding white paper that shows you how to fit OpenLaszlo into your 
enterprise application architecture. See the front page of 
www.openlaszlo.org.

The application is a project management application called LZProject. It 
is bundled with:

* An LZX client application (front end)
* A Java middle tier;
* A database back-end

It supports user accounts, login, and dynamic localization (into three 
languages: English, German, Korean). It runs in both Flash and DHTML. 
And, there is a comprehensive 23-page white paper to accompany the 
application.

Definitely worth a look!
-- Amy Muntz, OpenLaszlo Manager