Along with it we also have published documentation of our brand new OpenWGA User Management 2 design, which should have popped up as new plugin to install in the plugin store recently. It is our default implementation for apps to be used as authentication backends, allowing to define users, their logins and their groups.

Not quite coincidentally it is also based on the Basic App Kit and can be seen as some kind of "real world demo" for the capabilities of the kit.

Find both documentations in our new doc library "book" Apps and development tools.

The addressed issues:

• For OpenWGA 6.1.3
• For OpenWGA 6.0.10

See the issues addressed here:

• For OpenWGA 6.1.2
• For OpenWGA 6.0.9

As always there is a little upgrade guide which is not exactly spectacular this time. However you should have a look at the opportunity to improve the security of password hash generation of OpenWGA with this version, to make the worst case that your password hash databases are stolen less fatal.

Along with the documentation we release OpenWGA Server 6.1.1 and OpenWGA Developer Studio 2.1.1 early, as some things regarding new APIs and their Code Completion needed to be tweaked. So please update both to ensure consistent behaviour with the documentation.

[Update 18.4.2013]: Now the updated WGAPI reference as well as the new OpenWGA Server API reference are available online. What is new in OpenWGA 6.1 can now be also read in condensed form here.

Unfortunately we fall back into old habits regarding the OpenWGA 6.1 documentation, which is not yet released, but will be in the very near future. Meanwhile you may want to have a look at what our issue tracker has to say about this new version or read about it in a previous posting.

OpenWGA 6.1 introduces the OpenWGA 6 feature stream. As a 6.0 user you can now choose if you want to stick with the base release and get regular and small maintenance updates from the 6.0 base stream or if you want to switch to the 6.0 feature stream, which will bring new features faster but may mean more maintenance effort. See our release strategy for details.

If you want to update and use our debian package repository then you will find OpenWGA 6.1 under a new package name to install: openwga6-ce-feature (or openwga6-ee-feature for enterprise customers). This will replace your old OpenWGA version with 6.1 but keep everything else intact.

All others will find OpenWGA 6.1 distributions as usual in the downloads section.

OpenWGA Developer Studio 2.1 accompanies this server release and is released along with it, bringing support for developing 6.1-compliant designs. If you already have WDS 2.0 then you can upgrade to this version via menu "Help > Check for Updates". Also you can just wipe your installation and replace it with a new one from our Downloads. Just make sure that your Workspace directory is not contained in your installation (which we do not recommend anyway).

One more thing to announce: The end of April 2013 will also see the end of the 3-year-support-lifespan of OpenWGA 5.0 base release. If you still use this release and haven't upgraded yet then you should do so in the next time, either stepping up to 6.0 or directly to 6.1. There will be no more maintenance for this version beginning with May 2013.

As usual our issue tracker will show you what has changed.

But: The downside of this, as we have already talked about in an earlier posting, was the lack of feature development in the last months, so that we needed to postpone work on version 6.1 multiple times.

Well, you might have guessed it by now: We've done it once again :-) But the good news is, there now is a definite schedule for OpenWGA 6.1 release which will be on April the 2nd (Yes, we edited that, sorry again. And we still think that releasing on the day before would be a bad idea...).

Read on to see what goodies to expect from OpenWGA 6.1.

The addressed issues, as always, can be viewed en detail on our issue tracker. 

The new version offers a new layout "image wall" for presenting your images. In this layout all images are dynamically scaled to a size that fits into rows, no matter if the image orientation is landscape, portrait or square.

The image-wall can also be used as content module to embed the view into any OpenWGA website:

The plugin can be installed from the OpenWGA plugin store.   

OpenWGA 6.0.6 is out and can be fetched in the usual distribution forms. as also usual see the addressed issues on our issue tracker.