Release 0.6

RingoJS 0.6 was released on September 30, 2010.

• API Documentation
• Downloads

Here are the major changes since release 0.5:

• Significant improvements in the following modules
  • ringo/httpclient
  • ringo/httpserver
  • ringo/parser
  • ringo/subprocess
• Moved core/* module s to ringo/utils/* namespace, no more extending of standard JS objects.
• Improved jsdoc support, new ringo-doc command line tool for creating static API documentation.
• CommonJS compliant unit testing.
• Fixes and added tests for skins (templates)
• Improvements in webapp framework:
  • New static middleware for serving files
  • Improved and redesigned Request and Response objects
  • Redesigned skeleton application
  • Redesigned error/notfound pages and middleware
  • AsyncResponse for fully streaming, asynchronous responses
  • WebSocket support out of the box
• Allow Ringo to run with modules bundled in ringo.jar file
• Add static API documentation for core JavaScript modules and Java classes

A full list of commits since 0.5 is available on GitHub.

The following people directly contributed code to this release:

• Andreas Bolka
• Robert Gaggl
• George Moschovitis
• Simon Oberhammer
• Robert Thurnher
• Hannes Wallnöfer
• Garry Yao

A lot more contributed ideas, bug reports and code on the mailing list. Thanks to everybody!

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