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12 May 2006	Meet KF at JavaOne Per Gustafson, CTO of 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.

The Knopflerfish project

The Knopflerfish project is based on the Gatespace GDSP OSGi framework, which has been in development since 1999. Gatespace Telematics is the maintainer and main sponsor of the Knopflerfish project and has several developers assigned to develop and maintain the Knopflerfish OSGi distribution.

The Knopflerfish project has in part been supported by VINNOVA via the Emotional Broadband and IT & Textiles projects.

The Knopflerfish project's goal is to develop and distribute easy to use open source code, build tools and applications, related to the OSGi framework. See charter for details.

Commercial support for Knopflerfish

In addition to the Knopflerfish forum, Gatespace Telematics offers various forms of support for Knopflerfish users. Please visit their website: http://www.gatespacetelematics.com to learn more.

The OSGi framework

OSGi, Open Service Gateway Initiative, specifies an industry standard Java application platform, allowing multiple applications, to securely run in a single JVM. These programs can share resources as data, functionality and threads.

Applications areas for OSGi ranges from use as a service platform on embedded devices, to plugin mechanisms for larger programs. The initial goal of OSGi was the embedded market, but other uses are certainly possible.

For more information on the OSGi consortium, see http://www.osgi.org

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