Saros - Distributed Party Programming

The Saros Team is happy to announce release 14.10.31. Since the previous release we mostly removed unnecessary code, refactored, removed again, refactored again: There were over 500 commits since the last release. As a result, the Saros binaries' ... [More] file size shrunk from 9.9 MByte to 7.0 MByte. So don't expect many new features, but an improved user experience. With this release we also set a record we are not particularly proud of: Instead of intended one-week release process, it took us eleven months to push Saros 14.10.31 out of the pipeline. One reason for that: We're busy working on the IntelliJ IDEA version and a shiny new GUI for both Saros versions. Stay tuned! New and improved Features Your account information is now stored in your home directory inside a ".saros" folder. It's therefore independent from one specific IDE instance. Away messages of XMPP contacts will be displayed Alternative minimalistic chat layout in "IRC style" (which is way more compact than the default layout) Newly implemented, now session-independent file transfer Choose the Socks5 proxy candidates Starting a session with multiple projects at once is now faster since all files are put into one archive (instead of multiple per-project archives put into one big archive) Disabled Features The optional feature "Concurrent Undo" was disabled due to Bug #836. This needs further investigation; as of now, activating this feature would do more harm than good. Removed Features Need-based synchronization Screensharing VoIP Improved GUI Sorting of contacts in session view: Now by display name (i.e. optional nickname), not by Jabber ID Improved explanation on how to get started with Saros Improved UPnP explanation in network preferences Notification when receiving projects using unavailable charsets States of the invitation process have better labels Optional: better looking remote selections (cursor and blocks for multi-line selections) Restructured the "Add XMPP Account" dialog The 1-to-1 chat is no longer colored with session user colors Fixed network-related issues introduced with last release (13.12.6): Local Socks5 Proxy was always enabled, i.e. the options to only allow connections over IBB and an external Socks5 Proxy Server (under Saros > Network) were not honored. Changing accounts on-the-fly without clicking reconnect was not possible Additionally, you will find many minor fixes and usability improvements. (For details, see the changelog.) For stability reasons some internal changes have been made. As a consequence Saros 14.30.31 is not compatible with previous versions, so that all session participants need Saros 14.10.31 to work together. Install and update Saros 14.10.31 via our Eclipse Update Site: http://dpp.sf.net/update For more information visit http://www.saros-project.org. Many thanks to the users who participated in our survey (although it is currently offline) and to everyone who helped us improve our plug-in! Best Regards, Saros-Team [Less]

The Saros Team is happy to announce release 14.10.31. Since the previous release we mostly removed unnecessary code, refactored, removed again, refactored again: There were over 500 commits since the last release. As a result, the Saros binaries' ... [More] file size shrunk from 9.9 MByte to 7.0 MByte. So don't expect many new features, but an improved user experience. With this release we also set a record we are not particularly proud of: Instead of intended one-week release process, it took us eleven months to push Saros 14.10.31 out of the pipeline. One reason for that: We're busy working on the IntelliJ IDEA version and a shiny new GUI for both Saros versions. Stay tuned! New and improved Features Your account information is now stored in your home directory inside a ".saros" folder. It's therefore independent from one specific IDE instance. Away messages of XMPP contacts will be displayed Alternative minimalistic chat layout in "IRC style" (which is way more compact than the default layout) Newly implemented, now session-independent file transfer Choose the Socks5 proxy candidates Starting a session with multiple projects at once is now faster since all files are put into one archive (instead of multiple per-project archives put into one big archive) Disabled Features The optional feature "Concurrent Undo" was disabled due to Bug #836. This needs further investigation; as of now, activating this feature would do more harm than good. Removed Features Need-based synchronization Screensharing VoIP Improved GUI Sorting of contacts in session view: Now by display name (i.e. optional nickname), not by Jabber ID Improved explanation on how to get started with Saros Improved UPnP explanation in network preferences Notification when receiving projects using unavailable charsets States of the invitation process have better labels Optional: better looking remote selections (cursor and blocks for multi-line selections) Restructured the "Add XMPP Account" dialog The 1-to-1 chat is no longer colored with session user colors Fixed network-related issues introduced with last release (13.12.6): Local Socks5 Proxy was always enabled, i.e. the options to only allow connections over IBB and an external Socks5 Proxy Server (under Saros > Network) were not honored. Changing accounts on-the-fly without clicking reconnect was not possible Additionally, you will find many minor fixes and usability improvements. (For details, see the changelog.) For stability reasons some internal changes have been made. As a consequence Saros 14.30.31 is not compatible with previous versions, so that all session participants need Saros 14.10.31 to work together. Install and update Saros 14.10.31 via our Eclipse Update Site: http://dpp.sf.net/update For more information visit http://www.saros-project.org. Many thanks to the users who participated in our survey (although it is currently offline) and to everyone who helped us improve our plug-in! Best Regards, Saros-Team [Less]

Dear Saros user, The Saros Team got some more developers and so we are pleased to announce the release 13.12.6. This release fixed bugs and brings new features and improvements. Now you can send and use hyperlinks via chat. Cleaner "Create ... [More] Account form" and detailed invitation page. Now you see the nickname of the inviter on the invitation page and you got detailed information about the file count and total file size also for partial shared projects. You could now enable/disable all four sound events separately. These sound events are contact comes online/offline and chat message sent/received. Before you could only enable/disable the sound when receiving a chat message. We changed the logic of the follow mode toolbar button. Clicking on the button will now switch follow mode to the next session user. Furthermore a dropdown menu has been added to select a specific user who should be followed. Unfortunately we hat to cut off one piece of functionality: only the session host can add projects to sessions anymore. This was a necessary regression to gain more stability and ensure data integrity. We're working on this and are confident to be able to re-enable this feature soon. Additionally, you will find many minor fixes and usability improvements. Check out the changelog: https://sourceforge.net/projects/dpp/files/Saros/DPP%2013.12.6/#readme For stability reasons some internal changes have been made. As a consequence Saros 13.12.6 is not compatible with previous versions, so that all session participants need Saros 13.12.6 (or later) to work together. Install and update Saros 13.12.6 via our Eclipse Update Site: http://dpp.sf.net/update For more information visit http://www.saros-project.org. Many thanks to the users who participated in our survey and to everyone who helped us improve our plug-in! Best Regards, Saros-Team [Less]

Dear Saros user, The Saros Team got some more developers and so we are pleased to announce the release 13.12.6. This release fixed bugs and brings new features and improvements. Now you can send and use hyperlinks via chat. Cleaner "Create ... [More] Account form" and detailed invitation page. Now you see the nickname of the inviter on the invitation page and you got detailed information about the file count and total file size also for partial shared projects. You could now enable/disable all four sound events separately. These sound events are contact comes online/offline and chat message sent/received. Before you could only enable/disable the sound when receiving a chat message. We changed the logic of the follow mode toolbar button. Clicking on the button will now switch follow mode to the next session user. Furthermore a dropdown menu has been added to select a specific user who should be followed. Unfortunately we hat to cut off one piece of functionality: only the session host can add projects to sessions anymore. This was a necessary regression to gain more stability and ensure data integrity. We're working on this and are confident to be able to re-enable this feature soon. Additionally, you will find many minor fixes and usability improvements. Check out the changelog: https://sourceforge.net/projects/dpp/files/Saros/DPP%2013.12.6/#readme For stability reasons some internal changes have been made. As a consequence Saros 13.12.6 is not compatible with previous versions, so that all session participants need Saros 13.12.6 (or later) to work together. Install and update Saros 13.12.6 via our Eclipse Update Site: http://dpp.sf.net/update For more information visit http://www.saros-project.org. Many thanks to the users who participated in our survey and to everyone who helped us improve our plug-in! Best Regards, Saros-Team [Less]

Saros - Distributed Party Programming for Eclipse Dear Saros users, The Saros Team got some more developers and so we are pleased to announce the release 13.12.6. This release fixes bugs, and brings new features and improvements. Now you can send ... [More] and use hyperlinks via chat. Cleaner "Create Account form" and detailed invitation page. Now you see the nickname of the inviter on the invitation page, and you get detailed information about the file count and total file size also for partially shared projects. You could now enable/disable all four sound events separately. These sound events are "contact comes online/offline" and "chat message sent/received". Prior to Saros 13.12.6 you could only enable/disable the sound when receiving a chat message. We changed the logic of the follow mode toolbar button. Clicking on the button will now switch the follow mode to the next session user. Furthermore a dropdown menu has been added to select a specific user who should be followed. Unfortunately we had to cut off one piece of functionality: only the session host can add projects to sessions. This was a necessary regression to gain more stability and ensure data integrity. We're working on this and are confident to be able to re-enable this feature soon. Additionally, you will find many minor fixes and usability improvements. Check out the changelog: https://sourceforge.net/projects/dpp/files/Saros/DPP%2013.12.6/#readme For stability reasons some internal changes have been made. As a consequence Saros 13.12.6 is not compatible with previous versions, so that all session participants need Saros 13.12.6 to work together. Install and update Saros 13.12.6 via our Eclipse Update Site: http://dpp.sf.net/update For more information visit http://www.saros-project.org. Many thanks to the users who participated in our survey and to everyone who helped us improve our plug-in! Best Regards, Saros-Team [Less]

Saros - Distributed Party Programming for Eclipse Dear Saros users, The Saros Team got some more developers and so we are pleased to announce the release 13.12.6. This release fixes bugs, and brings new features and improvements. Now you can send ... [More] and use hyperlinks via chat. Cleaner "Create Account form" and detailed invitation page. Now you see the nickname of the inviter on the invitation page, and you get detailed information about the file count and total file size also for partially shared projects. You could now enable/disable all four sound events separately. These sound events are "contact comes online/offline" and "chat message sent/received". Prior to Saros 13.12.6 you could only enable/disable the sound when receiving a chat message. We changed the logic of the follow mode toolbar button. Clicking on the button will now switch the follow mode to the next session user. Furthermore a dropdown menu has been added to select a specific user who should be followed. Unfortunately we had to cut off one piece of functionality: only the session host can add projects to sessions. This was a necessary regression to gain more stability and ensure data integrity. We're working on this and are confident to be able to re-enable this feature soon. Additionally, you will find many minor fixes and usability improvements. Check out the changelog: https://sourceforge.net/projects/dpp/files/Saros/DPP%2013.12.6/#readme For stability reasons some internal changes have been made. As a consequence Saros 13.12.6 is not compatible with previous versions, so that all session participants need Saros 13.12.6 to work together. Install and update Saros 13.12.6 via our Eclipse Update Site: http://dpp.sf.net/update For more information visit http://www.saros-project.org. Many thanks to the users who participated in our survey and to everyone who helped us improve our plug-in! Best Regards, Saros-Team [Less]

Dear Saros users, the new Saros version also included a fix in the SMACK library that is still not available in the current SMACK release and offers you the opportunity to establish direct SOCKS5 connection regardless of the XMPP server you are ... [More] using. This should be a major improvement for Saros users that use the Google Talk service. We hope that you enjoy Saros as much as we do. Best regards, Stefan Rossbach, Saros Lead Programmer [Less]

Dear Saros users, the new Saros version also included a fix in the SMACK library that is still not available in the current SMACK release and offers you the opportunity to establish direct SOCKS5 connection regardless of the XMPP server you are ... [More] using. This should be a major improvement for Saros users that use the Google Talk service. We hope that you enjoy Saros as much as we do. Best regards, Stefan Rossbach, Saros Lead Programmer [Less]

Saros - Distributed Party Programming for Eclipse Long time no see, but finally the Saros Team is proud to announce the release of version 13.3.22. Instead of just fixing bugs, this release provides you with a bunch of new features: * Saros now ... [More] supports session-independent 1-to-1 chats enabling a direct communication with your buddies. * The multi user chat has been improved by providing more and better notifications as well as fixes. * We introduced a new color management, which tries to ensure that you always get the same colors in your session, independent of who started the session in the first place. To achieve this, we had to restrict the freedom of choosing any RGB color to a strict five-color-mode, which has been optimized for readability and distinguishability -- even for color blind users. However, you can still change your preferred color in the Saros Preferences under "Saros" > "Appearance". * Since the computation of the contribution annotations (who wrote what) are CPU intense, we made this an optional feature. You can now disable the computation in the preferences under "Saros" > "Advanced" > uncheck "Show contribution annotations". * Furthermore, only the session host can invite additional users to a running session. This was a neccessary regression to gain more stability and ensure data integrity. Additionally, you will find many minor fixes and usability improvements. Check out the changelog below for more information. For stability reasons some internal changes have been made. As a consequence Saros 13.3.22 is not compatible with previous versions, so that all session participants need Saros 13.3.22 (or later) to work together. Install and update Saros 13.3.22 via our Eclipse Update Site: http://dpp.sf.net/update For more information visit http://www.saros-project.org. Please note that we upgraded our website, which got a new design and a far better structure. Many thanks to the users who participated in our survey and to everyone who helped us improve our plug-in! Best Regards, Saros-Team [Less]

Saros - Distributed Party Programming for Eclipse Long time no see, but finally the Saros Team is proud to announce the release of version 13.3.22. Instead of just fixing bugs, this release provides you with a bunch of new features: * Saros now ... [More] supports session-independent 1-to-1 chats enabling a direct communication with your buddies. * The multi user chat has been improved by providing more and better notifications as well as fixes. * We introduced a new color management, which tries to ensure that you always get the same colors in your session, independent of who started the session in the first place. To achieve this, we had to restrict the freedom of choosing any RGB color to a strict five-color-mode, which has been optimized for readability and distinguishability -- even for color blind users. However, you can still change your preferred color in the Saros Preferences under "Saros" > "Appearance". * Since the computation of the contribution annotations (who wrote what) are CPU intense, we made this an optional feature. You can now disable the computation in the preferences under "Saros" > "Advanced" > uncheck "Show contribution annotations". * Furthermore, only the session host can invite additional users to a running session. This was a neccessary regression to gain more stability and ensure data integrity. Additionally, you will find many minor fixes and usability improvements. Check out the changelog below for more information. For stability reasons some internal changes have been made. As a consequence Saros 13.3.22 is not compatible with previous versions, so that all session participants need Saros 13.3.22 (or later) to work together. Install and update Saros 13.3.22 via our Eclipse Update Site: http://dpp.sf.net/update For more information visit http://www.saros-project.org. Please note that we upgraded our website, which got a new design and a far better structure. Many thanks to the users who participated in our survey and to everyone who helped us improve our plug-in! Best Regards, Saros-Team [Less]