RELEASE NOTES for 0.8.1 (March 2010)

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- fixed bugs (sourceforge buglist)
- 'work in progress'  button on compare and download.
- 'e-mail this' button on compare.
- Compare function out of revision lists.
- 'Upload in progress' feature.
- 'no revisions yet' notice at empty projects.
- Anonymous access (checkbox) at creation of projects.
- CityGML bugs fixed.
- ifcXML 100% valid.
- IFC Engine DLL loading and installation is integrated.
- IFC schema to IFC Engine DLL optimised.
- separate notice of active and archived checkouts.
- registration of new users optional by 'only admin' or 'register from start'.
- created separat JVMs for IFC Engine DLL and BIMserver.
- created a settings page for the administrator (to edit settings.xml in the webinterface).
- split upload of IFC and handling IFC data into database (performance).
- changed SOAP Url to /bimserver/services/soap
- Upload IFC in ZIP files.
- Download models in ZIP files.
- ignoring identical upload of revisions.
- Merging subprojects of choice by user.
- non-usefull tabs are hiding in the webinterface.
- Update of Jetty (in standalone release)
- Created info page for IFC ojects (to embed)
- Added 'plain text' option for download.
- Upload/download ignore.xml file in settings page.
- Added IFC browser for projects and revisions (integrated with summary page)
- Added 'forgot password?' link on login page.
- RSS feeds work with autorisation.
- Checking if upload file is IFC.
- Checking (on startup) if database is not locked by other proces (other BIMserver instance)
- Checking (on startup) for correct database schema.
- and a lot more...


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LICENCE:

The BIMserver.org software is GNU-GPL3 open source.


The ifcengine.DLL file is NOT open source.
The ifcengine.DLL is NO PART of the open source BIMserver, nor of the BIMserver.org project.
Bimserver.org uses the DLL (with permission of the copyright holder and owner) to compile geometry.


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KNOWN ISSUES:

- Memomy management.
- O3D rendering has issues.
- IFCEngine.dll crashes at random.
- Merging of subprojects creates corrupt IFC files.