Release Notes 10

Release Notes of openHAB version 1.0

openHAB Release 1.0

Version 1.0 includes many new features, improvements and bug fixes.

Here is a detailed list of what this release brings on top of the previous openHAB 0.9.1:

New & Noteworthy

Version 1.0.0

Major features:

• native Andoid client available - HABDroid!
• new Persistence support is available with implementations of db4o, rrd4j, Open.Sen.se and Logback logging
• Server-side chart support through rrd4j including a new Chart widget for the UIs
• Image widget now supports automatic refreshs
• new Video widget for video streams
• new Setpoint widget to easily allow numeric item adjustments
• new Webview widget for integration of external content
• Issue 70: Bonjour/MDNS discovery support
• Support for timers, i.e. the possibility to schedule the execution of a block of code for a later point in time from within scripts or rules
• Issue 37: Presence Simulation
• new ConfigAdmin binding
• new Dropbox bundle
• new Novelan Heatpump Binding (thanks to Philipp Bolle for this contribution)

Enhancements:

• Fritzbox binding now refreshes its connection every night, so that it recovers from blocked sockets
• KNX response timeout is now configurable
• upgraded target platform to Juno (4.2)
• upgraded build to Tycho 0.15.0
• Group items can now contain items from different sources (e.g. different items files)
• added new rule action to store and restore item states in a rule context
• added NAND and NOR group functions to calculate group item states
• added HTTP PUT and DELETE rule actions and enhanced API to support sending content and contentType
• KNX read requests are now resent (a configurable number of times) after timeout
• added Jodatime to script/rule language to allow powerful data/time calculations
• Mail action now supports popBeforeSmtp
• Issue 81: openHAB instance generates a unique ID during first launch
• Issue 82: Access to openHAB version for client APPs
• Issue 86: Extend HttpBinding to support numeric commands (eg. !PercentType for !RollerShutter)
• Issue 88: SNMP: implementing handling for numbers
• Issue 62: Support streaming mode in the REST API for item/widget status changes
• KNX data types for electric current and brightness are now supported
• added new !LogAction to log to the "normal" log files in rules/scripts
• added new Ping Action which allows to check the vitality of given hosts in rules/scripts
• removed demo files from runtime zip and provided an additional demo zip
• XMPPConnection now provides a proxy configuration to support GTalk properly (thanks to Phillip Bolle for this contribution)