Hi everyone,
I'm happy to announce the general availability of OpenSync 0.19, after many, many changes and 11 month of intense development.
These are the highlights of this release:
- IPC, which enables OpenSync to run each plugin as a separate process
- added a VCalendar converter
- improved the ICalendar converter
- simplified filtering off object types (e.g. disable syncing of memos)
- 4 additional plugins, boosting the number of plugins up to 14
- Support for a wide range of applications and devices.
The OpenSync project is eagerly seeking for contributors. If you are interested in testing plugins, writing new code, fixing bugs, creating tutorials, improving documentation, join our IRC channel #opensync on irc.freenode.org or subscribe to the OpenSync -users and/or -devel mailing list:
OpenSync is still in early stages of development. Please don't sync without a _full backup_ and only sync if you are able to restore from your backup! Please follow the plugin's README prior to using a plugin!
OpenSync 0.19 and most of it's appendant plugins have been packaged with the openSUSE Build Service and are available for Mandriva 2006, Fedora Core 5, SUSE Linux 10.0 and 10.1 at:
http://software.opensuse.org/download/OpenSync/
Debian and Ubuntu packages are being provided by Matthias Jahn at:
http://www.in.fh-merseburg.de/~jahn/opensync/
Source Tarballs: http://www.opensync.org/wiki/download
The 0.20 release will be a bug fixing release and is hopefully following in a few weeks. Armin will soon be releasing a testing release of the devel branch, which includes brand-new core features, such as improved filtering (enabling/disabling) of object types, improved performance of syncing, no more memory leaks, a reworked schema of the internal XML format and so one. Stay tuned!
Many thanks to everyone who helped getting this release out the door, especially (sorted alphabetically):
Andrew Baumann,
Christopher Stender,
Daniel Friedrich,
Eduardo Pereira Habkost,
Markus Meyer,
Matthias Jahn,
Stephan Berberig,
and everyone in #opensync on freenode, all on the OpenSync users and development mailing list, the openSUSE Build Service team @ Novell
And last, but not least, a big thankyou to Armin for his great work on OpenSync!
Have fun! Daniel
