]po[ Version 3.5

• Released: Alpha: November 2010, final: January 2011 (expected)
• Availability: Download: project-open-Update-3.5.0.0.1.tgz, (in the Files/V3.4 section here on SourceForge), CVS b3-5-0-patches branch
• Last Release: V3.5.0.0.1

V3.5 is the last version before upgrading to OpenACS 5.6 with ]po[ 4.0. The ]po[ team commits to maintain this version at least until 2011Q4.

The focus of V3.5 is stability. For this reason, there are only few additional features compared with V3.4.

Non-Functional Features

• Performance Improvements:
  We have updated a number of SQL statements to make them faster in larger environments.
  Also, we have replaced the "Resource Planning" report with a version that scales for hundreds of projects and hundreds of resources.
  

New Functionality

• REST Web-Services Interface
  The intranet-rest package provides a complete REST (REpresentational State Transfer) API.
  The REST interface is used already by several client applications:
• PO-Timesheet  is a REST Java client implementing timesheet management
• A Perl REST client is available in /intranet-rest/perl-client-examples/ showing access to ]po[ projects
• ]po[ partner Winzentis is developing an iPhone App using the REST interface.
• Neuber Software  is developing an integration of its Visual  TimeAnalyzer  product for ]po[.

Minor Improvement and Bug Fixes

• A considerable number of bugs have been fixed for this release.
  In particular, the ]po[ team is now using the Helpdesk Package internally for tracking "Report this Error" reports per ]po[ version. This way, more then 120 bugs have been fixed. We hope this will improve the overall robustness and "stability" of the system. .

V3.5 Version History

• v3_5_0_0_1 "alpha1" (2010-12-06): First V3.5 release.
  
• b3-5-0-patches (2010-10-02): Opened up a new branch for maintenance of V3.5 installations.
  HEAD is now used for V4.0 development and may be unstable at times.