Release Notes Knopflerfish 2.0.4

Release Notes Knopflerfish 2.0.4
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  Maintenance release of Knopflerfish

  Here follows a breakdown of the most important changes.

=== Framework (Core) ===

  Added system property
    org.knopflerfish.framework.system.export.all
  If set to true the system bundle will export all standard packages
  provided by the JRE. The files packages.txt specifying the set
  of packages to export for JRE . have been moved inside
  framework.jar to simplify embedding. A file named packages.txt
  in the current working directory will override the embedded file
  with the same name.

  Added system property
   org.knopflerfish.framework.system.export.all_16
  and a packages1.6.txt file. If this property is set to true the
  system bundle will export all standard packages provided by a
  Java SE 6 JRE. 


  Added system property
    org.knopflerfish.framework.debug.service_reference
  If set when security is enabled, print information about service
  reference lookups that are rejected due to missing permissions for
  calling bundle.

  Added system property
    org.knopflerfish.framework.debug.bundle_resource
  If set when security is enabled, the framework will print
  information about resource lookups that are rejected due to missing
  permissions for the calling bundle.

  Fixed a bug related to bundle class paths pointing to a directory
  inside the bundle jar file.

  The manifest of the system bundle now contains the
  Bundle-SymbolicName header. SourceForge issue tracker id [1866116].

  Fix of issue [1516267] in SourceForge issue tracker.

  Bundle URLConnection.getPermission() now returns AdminPermission.

  Added system property for debugging
    org.knopflerfish.framework.debug.bundle_resource
  if set to true all resource loading operations that fails due to
  missing permissions will be logged to System.out.

  The security policy used by the framework now delegates to the
  default policy for non-bundle security domains. I.e., permissions
  for non-bundle domains may be defined using a policy file.


=== Services (Compendium) ===
      


=== Misc (KF specific, start scritps, build system etc ===
    
  Start of the Framework

  The command line option "--xargs " was added. Loads the
  named file like "-xargs " if the file can be found, but does
  not abort startup of the framework if the file cannot be read.


  ExecutableBundleActivator

  A new knopflerfish framework utility that makes wraps a native
  application as a bundle. I.e. a native application can be included in
  the bundle's jar file and commands on how to start, stop are
  specified in the manifest through a set of manifest
  headers. E.g. Bundle-Extract-Files, Bundle-Start-Executable,
  Bundle-Stop-Executable. See the javadoc for the
  org.knopflerfish.util.framework.ExecutableBundleActivator class for
  a more detailed description

  Consoletelnet

  The telnet console implementation now handles a missing console
  service by returning a message to the client saying that there is no
  console service available. If the console service is stopped while
  a telnet console session is active that session will be terminated
  with a message saying that the console service have been terminated.


  Build System

  Building a distribution from the top level directory places all
  output in the directory htdocs/releases/.
  New items that that are placed here:

   index.html file with links to all products, release note, test
   results, etc.

   Subdirectory with javadoc.
   
   Test results form the KF internal test suite.

   ChangeLog generated from subversion commits.

  Nightly builds now uses a version number that complies to the OSGi
  spec. Issue [1885598].