[ZOO-PSC] On the road to ZOO-Project 1.3.0: the first release candidate available.

[Fenoy Gerald]

Dear ZOO-Project PSC members,
I am please to announce to you the ZOO-Project 1.3.0 first release candidate [1].

This release was tested and used 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-1.3.0-rc1/ zoo-project-1.3.0-rc1

The most important modifications / fixes are listed below:

  * Updating ZOO.Class object with the OpenLayers.Class Updating ZOO.Class with the (ticket #64)
  * Correct the content of proj4js (ticket #63)
  * Enhance the COOKIE gesture (ticket #68)
  * Support for dataInputs URLEncoded and xlink:href (ticket #62)
  * Use the same object structure for JavaScript arguments than for Python
  * Add the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index service
  * Add importScripts function to JavaScript support (ticket #66)
  * Add multiple inputs values for the same identifier (ticket #72)
  * Add Python ZOO-API to access ZOO-Kernel internel functions
  * Add a [headers] section in main.cfg file to add specifics to header returned
  * Add support for multiple outputs for both GET and POST requests
  * Add Content-Length to the headers if the result is sized
  * Add Content-Disposition to the headers if the result contains a filename
  * Add support for sending headers through JS ZOO-api
  * Add support for multi-valued inputs in JS ZOO-api
  * Fixing issue about invalid status document (ticket #73)
  * Add Python-3.3.0 support
  * Update documentation
  * Add MapServer W*S Support documentation (ticket #34)

We will run similar process as for releasing 1.2.0 version, waiting for 7 days period before reaching 1.3.0 release.

I hope you can make ZOO-Project users near you test this new release and provide relevant feedbacks if anything went wrong with it use.

Hope to hear back from you,
Best regards,

Gérald Fenoy
ZOO-PSC Chair

[1] http://zoo-project.org/trac/wiki/Release/1.3.0#ZOO-Projectversion1.3.0 
[2] http://zoo-project.org/trac/raw-attachment/wiki/Release/1.3.0/zoo-project-wd-1.3.0-rc1.zip
[3] http://zoo-project.org/trac/raw-attachment/wiki/Release/1.3.0/zoo-project-wd-1.3.0-rc1.tar.bz2