Release Notes 09

Release Notes of openHAB version 0.9

Version 0.9 has many new features, improvements and bug fixes.

Here is what is included in this release:

improved icon and label of uninitialized items
improved type comparison possibilities in rules and scripts
improved logged error messages of script and rule execution problems
fixed bug with sensor-id in !OneWire binding
added automatic archiving of log files
added timeout handling to Prowl action
fixed problem of accessing the changed property in Drools
added configurable "autoupdate" binding as a replacement of the ItemUpdater mechanism
added http post request action
fixed problem with suspended REST requests
Sencha Touch UI: updated to the latest Sencha Touch 2.0 nighty build (increased stability and many major bug fixes)
Sencha Touch UI: fixed a CSS style for phone mode group items
Sencha Touch UI: smaller widget heights in phone mode
Sencha Touch UI: added an option to disable transition animations (good for low-end devices)
Sencha Touch UI: Made the app splash screens work
Sencha Touch UI: Many tweaks for bettering the user experience

added possibility to create Scripts, which can be used within rules and consoles (OSGi, Google-Calendar, XMPP).
added a Rules with a very easy to use editor
added a native iOS client, available on the AppStore (thanks to Pablo Romeu for the contribution!)
added a preview version of an !SenchaTouch-based UI (thanks to Mihail Panayotov for the contribution!)
added a VDR binding (thanks to Wolfgang Willinghöfer for the contribution!)
added an Asterisk binding
added a SNMP binding
added security features: SSL and user authentication
REST-API: Server-push support through Atmosphere framework (thanks to Oliver Mazur for the contribution!)
REST-API: jsonp support for all URIs
REST-API: media type can be requested through query parameters
REST-API: single pages are now served without the details of the sub-pages
added support for KNX scenes
added support for sub-pages on image widgets
made Drools an Drools
made FreeTTS an optional add-on
shrinked the runtime zip from 55MB to 35MB
renamed command "speak" to "say"
updated quartz library to version 2.1.1
fixed bugs in 1Wire binding
fixed bugs in MPD binding
speeded up sitemap loading at startup
GCal downloader now handles quoted strings correctly
improved logging levels
simplified IDE setup for contributors by using Yoxos
made a new demo server available at http://demo.openhab.org

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