[ZOO-PSC] ZOO-Project release 1.4.0-rc1

[Fenoy Gerald]

Dear ZOO-Project users,
I am please to announce the ZOO-Project 1.4.0 first release candidate [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-rc1/ zoo-project-1.4.0-rc1

The most important modifications / fixes are listed below:

  * 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

As we did for previous release, we will now wait for feedbacks for a period of 7 days before releasing the 1.4.0 release.

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 to hear back from you,
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-rc1.zip
[3] http://zoo-project.org/dl/zoo-project-1.4.0-rc1.tar.bz2