As a perfect companion to the stable and mature qooxdoo 0.6.6 released today, an early alpha release is made available to demonstrate and test the new OO features planned for 0.7.

In a previous post those exciting new OO features have been announced. Also, preliminary documentation of the new features has been given:

• As a starting point, a summary of the current class declaration is available that also shows some of its shortcomings.
• Details about the proposed class declaration for qooxdoo 0.7 are given in a separate article.
• For a quick overview a comparison of changes between 0.6.x and 0.7 wraps up the proposed features.

Well, that is all theory.

Given this full-featured alpha release, all interested users are now able to not only get a first impression, but to actually try out all the proposed new features themselves. Most of the proposed OO features are implemented and it is the perfect time to get the communities feedback.

As the ultimate real-life check it would be great if users would actually migrate their existing applications to 0.7-alpha1. Of course, this should be done strictly separated from any production environment of the existing code. Such a copy of custom application code could be upgraded for the alpha release by using the well-known migration scripts. A detailed migration tutorial to get existing applications to run under 0.7-alpha1 will follow in the next couple of days.

Any feedback is appreciated!

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Unfortunately, the SDK version available at Sourceforge contains a typo. Affected is only the SDK archive. Please apply the provided patch after unpacking the SDk archive. It is not possible to replace the archives served by the SF mirrors. Sorry for any inconvenience!

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We are proud to announce the availability of two new qooxdoo releases.

The first half of this "release double feature" is qooxdoo 0.6.6, which is supposed to be the most mature of all versions so far. It is recommended for production use and all applications should be migrated to this release. As usual convenient scripts allow for (semi-)automatic migration of custom applications from the previous release 0.6.5. This time they are hardly needed, because there is only one major API change in order to avoid a potential name clash with a future of 0.7.

As an early preview of 0.7 a second release is made available today: qooxdoo 0.7-alpha1 is a first alpha release meant for demonstrating and testing the new OO features. It is meant for gathering user feedback, not for production use. More information on this early test release can be found in a separate news entry for 0.7-alpha1.

qooxdoo 0.6.6 does include a lot of bugfixes and improvements. Particularly, some IE7 issues have been fixed and the disposer code, which ensures qooxdoo applications to be memory-leak free, has been made more complete.

There may be only a few - but nonetheless quite exciting - feature additions in this maintenance release. For instance, a "Quickstart" application (Download) has been added that runs out-of-the-box without the need to install any software. It is intended for users new to qooxdoo as one of the easiest ways to evaluate the framework and to play around with a simple application. For a complete list of changes please take a look at the release notes.

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