THIS DOCUMENT IS NOT FINALIZED AND WILL BE UPDATED DURING THE 1.1 DEVELOPMENT PHASE.
Release Information
| Version | 1.1.0.v20130529 |
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| Tag | R1_1_0_v20130529 |
New Features
| Callback System | The services and network protocol gained a new feature. The "callback system". The server can call back to the client and request further information or confirmation. For example the logon process now can ask for a username and password. A write command ask for a confirmation dialog. So it also is no longer necessary to store the username:password information in the URI. |
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| Authorization using PKI – PKCS12 | Using the new callback system openSCADA can also request the client to sign operations. The signature is done using the XMLSig standard. Using authorization rules, the server decides which operation needs to be signed. Adding signatures using PKC11 (like USB Tokens) is now only a small step which can be done in one of the next releases. |
Enhancements
| No more ".git" extension for checked out projects | Since git automatically removes the ".git" extension we changed our build scripts to respect that. It sure was easy to identify a git repository in the workspace by the ".git" extension. But we go with the default now. |
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| Provide Target Platform Files | Starting with openSCADA 1.1 we will provide target platform files which make it a lot easier to set up an Eclipse workspace for openSCADA. |
| Enable API tooling | We tried it in the past. It was way too slow. We try again now. |
| Update external components | openSCADA 1.1 uses:
Also we will remove/replace unused libraries. We will try to only use external bundles from the Eclipse Orbit repository. |
| Remove non-core bundles | There are some bundles which were needed in some customer projects, which might be useful for some other users, but are not really a core part of openSCADA (for instance all the spring integration bundles). They will not disappear, but will be moved to a contrib feature/repository. |
| Clean up dependecies | Spring and its dependecies have all been moved to the contrib repository in order to clean up a mess of external dependecies. Also the osgi.externprise bundle is imported now from Eclipse Gemini (http://www.eclipse.org/gemini/dbaccess/) instead of the one from openSCADA. |