Access Grid 3.1 beta1 Release Available

Thomas D. Uram turam at mcs.anl.gov
Fri Jun 29 15:45:54 CDT 2007


The Access Grid 3.1 beta1 software is available for download at:

http://www.mcs.anl.gov/fl/research/accessgrid/software/releases/3.1-beta1

This beta release includes new functionality and numerous bug fixes.


3.1 (beta1) Changes

  * Inclusion of media tools from Sumover project
  * Venue Client startup time significantly reduced
  * Improved bridging support
        o VenueClient displays full list of bridges (instead of limiting
          list to ten)
        o Maintains bridge cache in the background
        o User preferences for whether and how often to order bridges by
          proximity; for refreshing the bridge cache manually; and, for
          user-specified bridge ordering
        o Support for multiple bridge registries
  * Supports organization of Venue data into folders
        o Users can create folders for organizing Venue data
  * Displays timestamps in Jabber chat
  * Support for SharedPresentation on Mac
  * Support for user-specified multicast group for multicast connectivity
    detection
  * Certificate-based Venue access control
        o Includes required client-side proxy certificate support
  * Plugin support
        o New extensibility mechanism allows integration of client-side
          applications


For full information on this release, and a complete listing
of the bugs fixed, see the official release page (url above).

As always, user feedback is welcome. Please file feature requests,
bug reports, and enhancement requests via the Access Grid Bugzilla
page at http://bugzilla.mcs.anl.gov/accessgrid.

Thanks to everyone involved for their hard work.


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