[xwiki-devs] Fwd: [ANN] Apache Shindig 2.0.0 released

From: Paul Lindner <lindner(a)apache.org> Date: September 29, 2010 8:38:56 PM GMT+02:00 To: announce(a)apache.org Cc: dev(a)shindig.apache.org Subject: [ANN] Apache Shindig 2.0.0 released The Apache Shindig team is proud to announce the release of Apache Shindig, version 2.0.0 Apache Shindig is an OpenSocial reference implementation in wide use by both social networks and enterprise software. Version 2.0.0 marks a major upgrade over the last previous stable release - 1.0.1. This release supports most of the OpenSocial 1.0 specification. To accomplish this most of the interfaces have been extensively refactored and all of the subsystems have been cleaned up and revamped. Major new features include: * Support for Opensocial 0.9 and 1.0 features * New javascript osapi * OpenSocial Templates * Data Pipelining * Experimental Support in the shindig-extras module for: * Activity Streams Support * PubSub-2 support * Google Wave gadgets support * Opensocial Virtual Currency and Payments * Opensocial Groups Support * and much more. Developer Improvements include: * Much improved Guice extensibility. It's now much easier to layer new functionality into Shindig. * New shindig-extras module that includes features that are not yet standardized * All dependencies synced to the latest revisions. The release is available here: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/shindig/2.0.0 You can find out more information about Apache Shindig including how to contribute at the project website at http://shindig.apache.org/