News and Status

This document contains the latest news and status regarding the Bloof project. It is here you'll find announcements related to Bloof.

Current Status

Currently we are planning the future extensions for Bloof 2. It will propably occur next year. Unti then, improvements and fixed are going to happen on the Bloof 1 branch.

19 October 2003 - Bloof 1.0 is released!

After a month of testing and doing some bug fixes, the 1.0 Version finally is released. The main changes are:

  • Extending the metric interface. Now, a metric can be asked which types of parameters it accepts.

10 September 2003 - Bloof 0.1 is released!

0.1 is the first stable version of Bloof. There have been some essential changes:

  • Implement a plugin mechanism for the metrics.
  • Implement openProject() and exportProject() in seperate Threads.

01 July 2003 - Bloof 0.1 Beta 6 is released!

0.1 Beta 6 is the next-to-release version of Bloof. No essential features will be added until 0.1 is released. The changes made for 0.1 beta 6:

  • Split Bloof and Bloof Browser into to projects.
  • Added a configuration file.
  • Improved the downloader.

01 June 2003 - Bloof 0.1 Beta 5 is released!

0.1 Beta 5 is mainly a performance improvement release

  • Speeded up internal database access.
  • Improved handling of errors.
  • Added PostgreSQL database access.

05 March 2003 - Bloof 0.1 Beta 4 is released!

0.1 Beta 4 is mainly a performance improvement release

  • Speeded up internal database access.
  • Improved handling of errors.
  • Added PostgreSQL database access.

24 February 2003 - Bloof 0.1 Beta 3 is released!

0.1 Beta 3 had some serious bugs. They are fixed by this relase. Furthermore 0.1 Beta 3 includes:

  • Loading cvs log file from local disk
  • Auto-download dependencies. The binary distribution no longer contains all dependencies. Instead, it is shipped with a downloader that fetches the necessary dependencies on first start-up.

20 February 2003 - Bloof 0.1 Beta 2 is released!

The after-release minor bugfix small improvements release Beta 2 is finished in time. It includes:

  • Starting Bloof by Java Webstart Technology
  • Start script for Linux

13 February 2003 - Bloof 0.1 Beta 1 is released!

The first Bloof release ever is ready. Hopefully not the last. It includes:

  • Bloof Application, a functional Java Swing Application for Bloof.
  • First set of metrics, like lines of code, change impact and a summary information for every subtree or file.
  • Direct access of Cvs respositories via rsh, ssh and psever.
  • Data storage in internal McKoi-Database