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| 25 Apr 2008 |
Knopflerfish 1.3.6 released. Knopflerfish 1.3.6 is a maintenance release of the OSGi R3 branch still maintained. Includes fixes for permissions when security is enabled. The Release Notes includes has the complete list of fixes. |
| 28 Mar 2008 |
Redmonk's Michael Coté discuss OSGi with Knopflerfish project's Christer Larsson During Eclipsecon 2008 Michael Coté from Redmonk talked with Christer Larsson from Makewave & the Knopflerfish project about OSGi, the histroy behind OSGi, and how this technology originally designed for an embedded gateway is becoming a corner stone in enterprise Java technology. |
| 14 Mar 2008 |
Knopflerfish 2.0.5 released. Knopflerfish 2.0.5 is a maintenance release. Main new features are JSDK update to Servlet API v2.5 from 2.2, Axis2-OSGi bundle that exports Web Services using Axis and new Bundle Documention section. The Release Notes includes has the complete list of fixes. |
| 8 Feb 2008 |
Knopflerfish 2.0.4 released. Knopflerfish 2.0.4 is a maintenance release. Corrections specifically for Spring Dynamic Modules, java security and permissions fixes as well as other minor corrections. This release also include the native application bundle wrapper, or ExecutableBundleActivator utility. The Release Notes includes has the complete list of fixes. |
| 10 Jan 2008 |
Knopflerfish 2.0.3 released. Knopflerfish 2.0.3 is a maintenance release. This release includes fixes for Spring-DM 1.0 as well as other minor corrections. Check out the Release Notes for a complete list of fixes. |
| 20 Nov 2007 |
Knopflerfish 2.0.2 released. Knopflerfish 2.0.2 is a maintenance release. Main new features are bundle class patching and automatic manifest generation. The release also contains several bug fixes. Check out the Release Notes for a complete list of fixes. |
| 3 Oct 2007 | Erik Wistrand, one of the founders of the Knopflerfish project, joins Makewave and will from now on be actively working on the Knopflerfish project again. |
| 30 May 2007 |
Knopflerfish eclipse plug-in 1.0.16 released The new release includes fix for having multiple source folders in a bundle project. The eclipse plug-in can be installed/updated using the Eclipse software update mechanism. See the plug-in instructions for more details. |
| 16 May 2007 | Gatespace Telematics, the primary maintainer of Knopflerfish changes name to Makewave |
| 25 Jan 2007 | There is a very good independent comparison of the different open source OSGi containers made by Piero Campanelli. Especially since KF is coming out quite nicely in the comparison! |
| 19 Jan 2007 | To better support the many KF users in Japan there is now a Japanese version of the Knopflerfish home page available. |
| 30 Nov 2006 |
Knopflerfish 2.0.1 released. Knopflerfish 2.0.1 is a maintenance release. Main features are adding support for boot delegation and making the User Admin service persistent. Check out the Release Notes for a complete list of fixes. |
| 18 Oct 2006 |
Knopflerfish eclipse plug-in 1.0.15 released The new release includes support for setting Bundle-ManifestVersion as well as additional R4 specific manifest header checks e.g. SymbolicName+Version must be unique. The eclipse plug-in can be installed/updated using the Eclipse software update mechanism. See the plug-in instructions for more details. |
| 25 Sep 2006 |
Knopflerfish Bundle Repository updated The Knopflerfish bundle repository has been updated to also support the new OBR format defined by OSGi RFC-112. The new format is available at: http://www.knopflerfish.org/repo/bindex.xml The OSGi Alliance hosts an OSGi Bundle Repository to which the KF bundle repo is linked. |
| 08 Sep 2006 |
Knopflerfish attends the OSGi Alliance Enterprise Workshop on 11
Sep 2006 The OSGi technology has already expanded from the devices into the desktop (eclipse). Next in turn is the enterpriser server side. The OSGi Alliance is therefore hosting an enterprise workshop on 11 Sep 2006 in San Jose, California, USA. You will meet Eric Jönsson from the Gatespace Telematics Knopflerfish team at the workshop. |
| 28 Jun 2006 |
Knopflerfish 2.0.0 released The official 2.0 release of KF is now released and available for download. Knopflerfish 2.0 implements the OSGi R4 specification fully and Makewave (formerly Gatespace Telematics) has certified the Knopflerfish Pro edition for R4 compliance by the OSGi Alliance. |
| 27 Jun 2006 |
Knopflerfish 1.3.5 released. Knopflerfish 1.3.5 is a maintenance release correcting the use of "Bundle-SymbolicName" header in R3 bundles, making them conforming to OSGi R4 specification. Potential problems in running R3 bundles on an R4 framework is hereby eliminated. |
| 24 May 2006 |
Knopflerfish 2.0 RC1 released. OSGi R4 fully supported. There is today a release candidate of Knopflerfish 2.0 available for download. |
| 24 May 2006 |
Updated website The Knopflerfish website has been updated with new look and feel, new logo, colors, and additional content. Enjoy! |
| 12 May 2006 |
Meet KF at JavaOne Per Gustafson, CTO of Makewave (formerly Gatespace Telematics) and one of the lead developers at KF will be at joining the Birds of a Feather (BOF) sessions about OSGi technology at JavaOne. |
| 05 Apr 2006 |
KF2 beta-4 released The fourth beta release of KF 2 adds the missing Permissions feature in OSGi R4. The release also includes minor changes and bug fixes. Next release of KF2 is scheduled to be RC1 in mid April. The official KF2 release is getting closer! This beta-4 is available for download here. |
| 06 Mar 2006 |
Third beta release of Knopflerfish 2 The third beta release of KF 2 adds full support for extension bundles. The release also includes minor changes and bug fixes. The only remaining optional feature before full R4 compliance is Permissions. Support for Permissions is scheduled for release in March 2006. This beta-3 is available for download here. |
| 10 Feb 2006 |
Second beta release of Knopflerfish 2 The second beta release of KF 2 adds some important optional features in the R4 specification, such as required bundles and fragments. The release schedule for KF 2 is updated to include a possible third beta release adding R4 security features before going to the final 2.0 release. This beta-2 is available for download here. |
| 29 Jan 2006 |
Beta release of Knopflerfish 2 This is the first beta release of Knopflerfish 2.0. With this release KF2 is feature complete for all mandatory parts of the R4 core framework specification. The release is also feature complete for all vital parts of OSGi release 4 Service Compendium. This beta is available for download here. |
| 21 Dec 2005 |
Alpha release of Knopflerfish 2 This is the first pre release of the upcoming Knopflerfish 2.0. It contains part of the OSGi R4 specification implemented. The alpha is available for download here. |
| 3 Dec 2005 |
New release of Knopflerfish Eclipse plug-in 1.0.12 This is mainly a maintenance and bug fix release. See programming on how to install and use the plug-in with eclipse. |