Changes in Release 5.2

  • Added XMPP communication between RC and EC
  • Extend EC to allow multiple instance calls without explicitly requiring --web-port parameter (feature #89)
  • Change AM handling of OML2, now the only a unique OML2 Server is started for the entire AM life (bug #84)
  • new baseline image using kernel 2.6.32 and latest madwifi trunk
  • NFS has been replaced by netcat for image uploads using the 'omf save' command.
  • Added initial OMF support for disconnected experiments
  • Added an OEDL command (sendMessage) to send a message to STDIN of a given application of a given Group. (feature #135)
  • Added OEDL support to configure IP route and packet filtering via the use of the new 'route' and 'filter' Resource paths (feature #128)
  • Added new flag -O to EC to show STDOUT from nodes on our its STDOUT
  • Fixed a bug with 'defGroup' in OEDL, where prototype could be assigned multiple times to nodes which belong to groups of groups (bug #126)
  • Fixed a bug when 'whenAllInstalled' in OEDL would never return true (and run its block) if a group is defined without any associated prototype (bug #45)
  • 64bit Ubuntu/Debian packages are now available
  • all OMF software now correctly reports its version
  • Overhauled documentation and tutorials