[Laszlo-user] OpenLaszlo 4.4 Available Today

[Amy Muntz]

We are pleased to announce that OpenLaszlo 4.4 is available now. You can 
download it from the OpenLaszlo Download page: 
http://www.openlaszlo.org/download. It is the recommended platform for 
all application development for the SWF8, SWF9, and DHTML runtimes. 
OpenLaszlo 4.4 is another major release, with almost 180 bugs fixed 
since OpenLaszlo 4.3. The majority of bug fixes in this release are 
specific to the DHTML runtime; however, general improvements to all 
runtimes have also been added and we strongly recommend that you take 
advantage of them by upgrading.

For those of you who have already upgraded your applications to 
OpenLaszlo 4.2.X, no further work is needed. You should just start using 
OpenLaszlo 4.4.

To migrate your 4.0.X or 4.1.1 applications, we strongly suggest that 
you refer to this wiki page: <a 
href="http://wiki.openlaszlo.org/Runtime_Differences">Runtime_Differences</a>. 
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.

This release has a number of improvements, and significant advances in 
these areas:
* Internet Explorer oddities have been resolved, such that it works 
similarly to FireFox and Safari.
* Context menus have been updated to work with DHTML.
* You can now use non-latin characters (such as Chinese and German) in 
CSS styles by using utf8 file encoding.
* DHTML now includes the "standard" debugger console, just as swf8 and 
swf9 do.

For a complete list of improvements and important notices, please see 
the Release Notes: http://www.openlaszlo.org/lps4.4/release-notes.html

We would like to thank the entire OpenLaszlo community for submitting 
bug fixes and participating in discussions to help make OpenLaszlo a 
better platform. We'd also like to thank the incredible engineering team 
at <a href="http://g.ho.st/?language=en">G.ho.st</a>, who have worked 
with us as a sponsor to bring SWF9 and many other improvements to the 
community. Special heartfelt thanks to André Bargull and Raju Bitter for 
their continued and amazing support of the project. Special recognition 
goes to community contributors: Sarah Allen, Andy Lubbers, Sarah Allen, 
Tim Dauer, and Mark Doeswijk.