Release 2014.1

Summary of Changes

• Minor changes for compatibility with C++11.
• Added MailDeliveryService, a Service wrapper around Poco::Net::SMTPClientSession.
• Improved exception handling in web server request handler.
• WebEvent improvements and fixes for Internet Explorer 11.
• The OSP web server now uses its own thread pool instead of POCO's default pool.
• Added support for web filters to the OSP web server.
• WebSessionManager: added support for generating CRSF synchronizer tokens.
• Web Server: Added support for mapping requests to request handlers using a regular expression.
• Web Server: Added support for specifying allowed methods in request handlers.
• Web Server: Added support for HTTP request logging.
• OSP Shell: Bundle and service commands have been put into a separate bundle (com.appinf.osp.shell.commands).
• OSP Shell: Help command now has aliases 'h' and '?' and also supports "help <command>" syntax.
• OSP Core: Code cache is automatically updated with latest shared libraries if a new version of a bundle is installed. This can be disabled by setting the "osp.autoUpdateCodeCache" configuration property to false.
• OSP Core: When stopping bundles, the bundle's run levels are accounted for.
• OSP Core: Ignore directories in bundle repositories that are not valid bundles (not having a META-INF subdirectory).
• OSP Core: BundleLoader has a new bundleError event fired when an error occurs while resolving or starting a bundle.

Known Issues

• None at this time.

Incompatible Changes and Possible Transition Issues

• None at this time.

Release 2013.2

Summary of Changes

• Added WebEvent bundle, implementing the Poco::OSP::WebEvent::WebEventService for delivering asynchronous notifications to browser clients using a WebSocket based on a subject-based publish-subscribe mechanism. See the WebEvent sample for more information.
• The Net bundle now unregisters the Poco::Net::HTTPStreamFactory and Poco::NetFTPStreamFactory when stopping.
• The NetSSL_OpenSSL bundle now unregisters the Poco::Net::HTTPSStreamFactory when stopping.

Known Issues

• None at this time.

Incompatible Changes and Possible Transition Issues

• None at this time.

Release 2013.1

Summary of Changes

• The WebServer and SecureWebServer bundles now correctly set serverName and softwareVersion in the Poco::Net::HTTPServerParams object. Previously, serverName was set to what is actually the softwareVersion. Furthermore, it is now possible to specify a listening host name or IP address in the configuration (in addition to the port number).

Known Issues

• None at this time.

Incompatible Changes and Possible Transition Issues

• None at this time.

Release 2012.1

Summary of Changes

• The OSP Command Shell application (ospsh) now supports command-line editing with the NetBSD Editline library (libedit). The library is automatically detected by the build system (checking for /usr/include/histedit.h).
• The OSP web server can now be disabled through the configuration by specifying a port number of 0.
• Poco::OSP::ServiceRegistry::unregisterService() now checks for a null ServiceRef.
• The Bundle Creator tool supports a new command-line option (—no-deflate, -N) to disable compression of bundle file contents.
• The OSP Web Server now supports gzip content compression for static content in bundles.

Known Issues

• None at this time.

Incompatible Changes and Possible Transition Issues

• None at this time.

Release 2011.2

Summary of Changes

• Poco::OSP::BundleLoader: do not attempt to load bundles from hidden directories (such as .svn directories).
• Poco::OSP::Web::WebServerDispatcher now has improved error handling (more detailed logging of server errors).
• Poco::OSP::Web::WebServerDispatcher now sets Last-Modified header for static content served from bundles to enable browser caching of content.
• Poco::OSP::Web::WebSessionManager now allows setting a default domain and path for the session cookie.

Known Issues

• None at this time.

Incompatible Changes and Possible Transition Issues

• None at this time.

Release 2011.1

Summary of Changes

• Added Visual Studio project and solution files for 64-bit builds on Visual Studio 2008 and 2010.
• Added basic iOS support to OSP (enabled by compiling OSP with -DPOCO_OSP_STATIC). This allows for static registration of bundle activators. This way, parts of OSP can also be used on platforms that don't support dynamic loading of shared libraries (such as iOS).
• Poco::OSP::Web::WebSessionManager: it is now possible to control the domain and path of the session cookie by including them in the appName (e.g., myCookie@.mydomain.com/path).
• Added Crypto bundle for deploying POCO Crypto library.
• OSP Shell services command now supports —properties option to print service properties.
• OSP Web Server: if a request handler factory now returns a 0 pointer instead of a proper request handler instance, a 404 error is reported.
• OSP Web Server: added Poco::OSP::Web::WebServerService. Subclasses of this class are registered by the standard web server and secure web server bundles and can be used to find port numbers and server params of running web servers.
• Web Index bundle no longer responds to arbitrary request URIs, only / and /index.html (fixes a potential security issue where a request for a non-existing path would automatically resolve to the Web Index bundle, even if it's not meant to be shown).
• Web Info bundle now displays additional information and uses Poco::Net::NetworkInterface class instead of DNS to enumerate IP addresses (fixes exception with embedded systems that lack proper DNS configuration).
• Added convenience methods getValue() and setValue() to Poco::OSP::Web::WebSession.
• ServiceRegistry: when registering or unregistering a service, the lock on the registry is now released before the corresponding event is fired. This allows registration or deregistration of services from within the event handler. Previously, this would cause a deadlock.
• Added Poco::OSP::ServiceFinder utility class template.
• BundleCreator: added support for extension bundles.
• OSP: added support for extension bundles.
• The path(list) passed to BundleRepository can now include wildcard, as well as direct paths to bundles.

Known Issues

• None at this time.

Incompatible Changes and Possible Transition Issues

• None at this time.

Release 2009.2p4

Summary of Changes

• fixed a bug in BundleLoader::unloadBundle(): now correctly fires a bundleUnloaded event instead of a bundleLoaded event.

Known Issues

• None at this time.

Incompatible Changes and Possible Transition Issues

• None at this time.

Release 2009.2

Summary of Changes

• OSP/Python now works with Python 2.6 as well.
• fixed a 64-bit compatibility issue with OSP Python bundle
• OSP: added ExtensionPoint::removeExtension()
• OSP BundleCreator now fully supports variable expansion in bundle spec file
• fixed #0000098: bad characters in OSP ServiceRegistry documentation
• fixed #0000099: Poco::OSP::Service::type() and isA()

Known Issues

• None at this time.

Incompatible Changes and Possible Transition Issues

• The Remoting bundles have been renamed from poco.remoting.* to com.appinf.remoting.* as poco.* is now strictly reserved for bundles related to the open source POCO C++ Libraries. If you have dependencies on Remoting bundles in your bundles, please change the bundle names accordingly. Also, make sure to remove the old poco.remoting bundles from your bundle repositories.

Release 2009.1

Summary of Changes

• Based on POCO C++ Libraries 1.3.5
• Bundles now have a numeric ID, valid and guaranteed to be unique during the runtime of the containing application. The ID of a bundle can be obtained with the id() member function.
• New OSP Command Shell Service, allows for command-line based management of OSP applications. The shell can also be extended with custom commands.
• Added OSPBundleSign library, which provides support for cryptographically signing bundles, as well as for verifying the signature of bundles.

Known Issues

• None at this time.

Incompatible Changes and Possible Transition Issues

• None at this time.

Release 1.3.3

Summary of Changes

• New SystemEvents class providing systemStarted and systemShuttingDown events. The SystemEvents object is available from the BundleContext with the systemEvents() member function.

Known Issues

• None at this time.

Incompatible Changes and Possible Transition Issues

• None at this time.

Release 1.3.2

Summary of Changes

• fixed 0000064: Bundle generator copies .abc (.svn) files into bundles
• bugfix: bundle unload triggered wrong event
• added sample for PreferencesService to OSP
• the Remoting SOAP listener now works with the OSP web server (now a port must be specified together with ref="osp.web" in the listeners.xml file)
• the OSP web server no longer crashes if a request handler factory returns null

Known Issues

• None at this time.

Incompatible Changes and Possible Transition Issues

• None at this time.

Release 1.3.1

Release 1.3 of the POCO C++ Libraries is the first official release supporting the Open Service Platform.

Summary of Changes

• OSP Web: check client IP address when accessing a WebSession
• BundleCreator: empty dependency version in bundlespec is okay
• fixed OSP shared library names to match naming conventions
• Stopping a Remoting Transport bundle (such as poco.remoting.binary or poco.remoting.soap) before stopping the Remoting bundle will no longer crash the application, due to insufficient cleanup when unloading the transport library.

Known Issues

• None at this time.

Incompatible Changes and Possible Transition Issues

• OSP bundle shared library names have been changed to match naming conventions.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the user name and password for the BundleAdmin tool?

The default user name and password is "admin", and "admin", respectively. See the AuthService documentation for information on how to change the password.