[ZOO-PSC] Releasing 1.5.0-rc1

[Fenoy Gerald]

Dear ZOO-PSC,
I propose to the PSC to vote to release a 1.5.0-rc1 version of the ZOO-Project, with me as release manager.

The new release includes the following changes and bug fixes :

  * Complete rewrite of the documentation to use modern style
  * Fix asynchronous POST request on WIN32 platforms
  * Add utils/registry service
  * Initial support for WPS 2.0.0 including the Dismiss extension
  * Fix concurrency access to status informations
  * Use simple file rather than shared memory for storing status informations
  * Add support for db backend to store status informations
  * Add the lib_zoo_service shared library to be linked against C services
  * Add ZOO-API for the PHP language (with documentation)
  * Add doxygen comments in source code
  * Add support for multiple Exception nodes
  * Add a length key when creating MapArray
  * Add OTB support for applications as a service
  * Add the otb2zcfg utility to produce zcfg for otb applications
  * Add OTB Application Observer to have progress status updates
  * Fix maxOccurs handling
  * Fix gesture of downloaded inputs when multiple values are given
  * Add detection of generated_file key in outputs to read the file
  generated by a service
  * Add a minimal parsing API 
  * Run validateRequest (download, default settings and decoding)
  after fork if any
  * Add SAGA-GIS support for modules as a service
  * Add saga2zcfg utility to generate zcfg for SAGA-GIS modules
  * Add SAGA-GIS Observer to have ongoing status updates

I will wait for the PSC members to vote to activate the release procedure [1].

Best regards,


[1] http://www.zoo-project.org/docnew/docs/_build/html/contribute/release.html


Gérald Fenoy
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Djay