OpenLaszlo 4.0.2 was released to the web today. This is a minor
release resolving almost 50 issues reported against OpenLaszlo 4.0.0,
and adding a few new features.
Many of the issues addressed in this release were reported by the
OpenLaszlo community. Thanks to everyone who took the time to try out
OL4 in SWF or DHTML and report your experiences to the mailing list
or forum, and a particularly warm thanks to those of you who filed bugs!
As for features, this release contains support for the <html> tag in
SWF, so you can embed raw html content inside your OpenLaszlo app
from either support runtime. 4.0.2 also includes preliminary support
for the SOAP protocol in DHTML.
Full details are available in the Release Notes.
Note that although recommending OL4 for production deployment is our
highest priority, we are not yet there with this release. (See here
for more.) Your participation, by reporting your OL4 porting
experiences, by filing bug reports, and by directly contributing to
the platform, will enormously speed up the process.
You may wonder what happened to 4.0.1. Funny story: just as we were
putting 4.0.1 to bed, we found a bad regression in the html wrapper
code that was causing high CPU load when running the Amazon demo in
DHTML. It turned out to be simpler and safer to quietly release 4.0.1
and turn around a 4.0.2 release in 48 hours than to retract 4.0.1 and
rebuild it.
Thanks to the Laszlo Systems Platform team for staying focused after
our long 4.0.0 push, and thanks to everyone who has given OL4 a try!
jim
Jim Grandy
Director of OpenLaszlo
Laszlo Systems, Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
