[Zoo-discuss] ZOO-Project 1.4.0 was released today

[Fenoy Gerald]

Dear ZOO-Project users,
the ZOO-Project developper team is pleased to announce the ZOO-Project 1.4.0 release [1].

This release should work correctly on both GNU/Linux, MacOS X and WIN32 platforms.

You can download the archives from [2] (zip) and [3]  (tar.bz2) or use Subversion:

  svn co http://svn.zoo-project.org/svn/tags/rel-1.4.0/ zoo-project-1.4.0

The most important modifications / fixes are listed below:

 * Small fix for mimeType of results for CGAL services
 * Binary support for PHP language
 * ZOO-API for the Java language
 * ZOO-Client Javascript API
 * FastCGI fixes
 * JavaScript ZOO-API enhancements (COOKIE use and Output in generated XML)
 * Add debian files
 * Inputs passed by reference downloaded in parallel
 * Conform behavior for DescribeProcess when the Identifier was not found
 * Add support of maximumMegabytes keywords for ComplexData Inputs
 * Add the optional YAML ZCFG support #4 and the zcfg2yaml converter
 * Return error messages that enable the service provider to quickly identify the root cause of errors due to configuration file syntax (ticket #90)
 * Fix logic in addMapToMap (ticket #91)
 * Enable AllowedValue and multiple Range definitions using default and supported blocks
 * Add the lastest revision number in version.h (available in Python ZOO-API)
 * Add the optional Ruby Language Support to the ZOO-Kernel with an API similar to the Python ZOO-API
 * Small rewrite of Python support
 * Inputs can be requested over https protocol (ticket #86)
 * Add capability to define both percentage of execution and a message (ticket #87). 
 * Add usid in lenv section used to generate an unique identifier based on time and the process identifier.
 * Add gdal_contour service
 * Add dynamic definition of serverAddress from the main section

This work was supported by a grant from the European Union's 7th Framework Programme (2007-2013) provided for the project PublicaMundi (GA no. 609608).

I hope you can have good time using this new ZOO-Project release,
Best regards,

Gérald Fenoy
ZOO-PSC Chair

[1] http://www.zoo-project.org/site/Downloads#ZOO-Projectversion1.4.0 
[2] http://zoo-project.org/dl/zoo-project-1.4.0.zip
[3] http://zoo-project.org/dl/zoo-project-1.4.0.tar.bz2