Today we are happy to announce the release of qooxdoo 0.6.5. The biggest news is that we have extended the license of qooxdoo from a pure Lesser GNU Public License (LGPL) to a dual license of LGPL and EPL (Eclipse Public License). This opens the door for qooxdoo to be easily integrated into Eclipse projects.

We have added the two very nice icon sets, Vista-Inspirate and NuoveXT, to qooxdoo, which the author Alexandre Moore has kindly relicensed under LGPL/EPL. Thanks Alexandre for your excellent work and your support! While adding the new icon themes the file naming was changed to match the de-facto standard, Freedesktop Icon Naming Specification.

On the server side the optional RPC backends in Java and PHP now have a new companion: Nick Glencross contributed a Perl backend. Very well done, Nick! A detailed Server Writer Guide should allow other developers to setup new RPC servers for any other language as well (Python, Ruby anyone?).

Another community contribution is the finite state machine module from Derrell Lipman and his initial work on the virtual tree widget which allows to handle really large trees in qooxdoo.

As usual many bugs were fixed, documentation was added and many other improvements were made. The API viewer for example got some love, and the Drag & Drop support is now able to use any widget for visual user feedback while dragging. For a complete list of changes please take a look at the release notes.

As usual we provide migration support for a smooth transition from older qooxdoo releases.

Have Fun!