OpieReleases/Opie1.1.3

= 26.04.04 Opie version 1.1.3 (devel) released =

The Opie Team is proud to announce the first public release of the Opie 1.1.x branch - version 1.1.3.

Since the closing of the Opie 1.0.x BRANCH, the Opie code base has been vastly improved thanks to a lot of long-standing cleanups and restructuring. The most important changes are documented in the ChangeLog:

New applications:


 * Mail - brand new e-mail client based on libetpan, supports IMAP, SNMP and POP3
 * Eye of Zilla - image viewer
 * Gutenbrowser - Gutenberg Project reader application
 * PackageManager - new package management client based on libipkg
 * Dagger - Bible reader app
 * About applet - credits and information about Opie

Enhancements:


 * Improved graffiti character input set
 * Improved Screenshotapplet and Drawpad integration. You can now open a screenshot in drawpad and take notes.
 * Enabled the possibility to pass command line arguments to applications
 * Added benchmarking functionality to SystemInfo
 * Added applet and configuration application for switching hardware keyboard layouts
 * Repaired MediumMount which was broken since integrating the QuickLauncher
 * Improved support for high resolution displays
 * Improved MultiKeyboard support, added keyboard layout switching applet
 * Improved Light-n-Power support for Sharp Zaurus SL-C7x0 devices
 * Added automatic rotation support for Sharp Zaurus SL-C7x0 devices
 * Imported fullscreen and font improvements from the Qkonsole fork to embeddedkonsole
 * Added scanning the wireless network neighbourhood to networksettings

Internal changes:


 * Added Generic Keyconfig Widget
 * Transition to new version of libopie (version 2)
 * Split libopie1 up into a set of smaller - functionally grouped - libraries
 * Added consistant namespace usage in libopie2
 * Conversion of applications to the Opie Debugging Framework
 * Ported applications from libopie1 to libopie2
 * Clean-up of package information in control files

We are pretty much in feature freeze for Version 1.2.0 now. The next developer releases will focus on bug fixes and build systems cleanups.

A new tag V1_1_3 has been added to the CVS and to the bug tracker. Please report bugs only with to Opie/1.1.3.