[Laszlo-announce] OpenLaszlo 4.2.0.2 Released

[Amy Muntz]

We are pleased to announce that OpenLaszlo 4.2.0.2 is available now. You 
can download it from the OpenLaszlo Download page 
(http://www.openlaszlo.org/download).

OpenLaszlo 4.2.0.2 is the next fully-qualified release since OpenLaszlo 
4.2.0.1, and is the recommended platform for all application development 
in the SWF8, SWF9, and DHTML runtimes. For those of you who have already 
upgraded your applications to OpenLaszlo 4.2, no further work is needed. 
You should just start using OpenLaszlo 4.2.0.2.

The 4.2.0.2 release includes more than 30 major bug fixes since 4.2.0.1; 
we have provided a link to the OpenLaszlo JIRA bug tracking system where 
you can view the details: 
(http://www.openlaszlo.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?mode=hide&requestId=10911)

In addition to bug fixes, OpenLaszlo 4.2.0.2 contains two areas of 
improvement: documentation comments feature and compiler performance 
improvements:

       The documentation comments feature adds a section at the end of 
every documentation page where you can add an example or comment that 
expands upon the existing documentation or shows a non-obvious usage of 
a feature (or work-around for a bug that you have already filed) in 
OpenLaszlo. Documentation bugs or feature requests should be filed in 
our bug tracking system as in previous releases.

       The compiler should be faster with 4.2.0.2 as compared to 
4.2.0.1. The script cache is now disabled by default. Please note that 
setting the server logging level to DEBUG will slow down the 
compilation, due to the large amount of debugging information that is 
logged on the server. The DEBUG level logging is off by default.

For those of you who have 4.0.x or 4.1.1 applications, we strongly 
suggest that you refer to this wiki page: Runtime_Differences. This page 
discusses the changes required by SWF9 and also provides a methodology 
for upgrading your application. It is very important that you run the 
automated conversion scripts in the recommended order, should you choose 
to take advantage of them.

As always, we appreciate your involvement and OpenLaszlo reaps the 
benefit of your expertise and commitment. We'd like to especially thank 
the following folks out there in the community who helped make this 
release by suggesting improvements, filing bugs, creating test cases, 
and contributing fixes: the team at IBM, Andre Bargull, Sebastian 
Wagner, Raju Bitter, Gilad Parann-Nissany, Ammar Sh. Tazami, Justin 
Clift, Mohammad ZeinEddin, Michael Jessup, and Nasser Najjar.