Releases

• .Net 2.0 and Mono 1.1.16 compatible
• console host application
• complete asynchronous message processing pipeline
• http and direct in-memory message transports
• JSON and HTML document encodings for XML
• automatic service state serialization

• Host
• Storage
• Directory
• Events
• Statistics
• Mount
• FileSystemMount
• Redirect
• Timer

• new XML document encodings: PHP, Versit, xSpan
• new prolog/epilog handling for features
• support for cookies
• new dream-request processing options
• new async plug processing

• HostService (new features)
• Log4Net
• Events (new features)
• Directory (new features)

• PHP integration

• much improved performance
• many improvements to XDoc, Plug, and XUri
• asynchronous programming with iterators
• managed global state for asynchronous free-threaded continuations
• improved Dream attributes
• services identified by global URIs (SIDs)
• support for path parameters based on URI templates (e.g. /path/{param}/)
• support for segment parameters (e.g. /segment;param/)
• unified access to path & query parameters
• DreamKernel (formerly DreamEnvironment) now fully decoupled from HTTPListener transport (allows embedding int ASP.Net, etc.)
• service URIs can now be a mixture of parameters and constant symbols (e.g. /name/{param}/action)

• mindtouch.apitest makes it easy to interact with Dream services
• mindtouch.blueprints generates publishable blueprint XML documents from compiled services

• many improvement to XDoc
• more asynchronous core methods
• support for co-routines
• improved logging support for DreamHost
• support for multi-home host names (i.e. host name is relative to incoming request)
• added xml diff engine (XDocDiff)
• added xml structural check engine (XDocCop)
• hiding of many Dream infrastructure calls in debugger
• stability improvements

• AtomService
• PrivateStorageService

• mindtouch.blueprint published DreamService documentation to any Deki Wiki site

• performance tuning
• memory footprint tuning
• simpler instantiation of the host service
• XDoc diffing and 3-way merge
• catch handlers for asynchronous operations
• eliminated all uses of NameValueCollection (it's slow, a memory hog, and buggy)
• much improved support for instantiating objects from a catalog
• support for independent culture per request for multi-lingual services

• (bug 3504) audited all Dictionary<string, V> declaration to ensure they are culture invariant
• (bug 3493) added "server-path" config parameter that tells the host what the public URI path is
• (bug 3493) append 'server-path' to 'server-name' during initialization
• (bug 3495) fixed 'UnescapeString()' escaping issue
• (bug 3460) added 'AsInnerText' to retrieve all nested text in a node
• (bug 3449) 'RemoveAll()' and 'Remove()' now also works on attribute nodes
• (bug 3459) don't throw exceptions when the same file is PUT twice
• (bug 2426) features links in /@about are wrong
• (bug 3521) added 'AtPath()' to run xpath expression with custom namespaces
• (bug 3520) always define default namespace prefix (_)
• (bug 3522) refactored computation for public uri

• support for ICredentials with Plug
• support for IPv6 based network addresses
• support for HTTP Range headers
• enhanced methods for manipulating XML documents with XDoc
• improved performance for deployments with large number of aliases
• removed status filters on service features
• and other bug fixes

Runtime:

• support for XML digital signatures with XDoc
• optimized this[string] xpath selector on XDoc for simple paths
• response caching in DreamService
• optimized text analysis in XDocDiffUtil
• (bug 4064) fixed comparison bug on XUri
• (bug 4136) preserve whitespace when parsing XML documents with XDocFactory
• allow wildcard element (i.e. "*") in definitions for XDocCop

Runtime:

• fixed bug with HttpHandler always returning 200 under IIS
• recognize proper application root under IIS
• added TEXT_UTF8 to MimeType
• optimized Diff method in ArrayUtil

Runtime:

• split XUri class into two files so that the base functionality can be used in other projects without using Dream
• GET/HEAD/OPTIONS requests no longer send in a content-type unless explicitly stated
• fixed XUri comparison when query parameters are present
• escape '?' in XUri query parmaters since IIS and Apache handle it differently
• dispose of iterator in coroutines when done
• allow overriding GET verb if override is HEAD or OPTIONS
• made 'Set-Cookie' header RFC 2965 compliant

License:

• all source code is now licensed under Apache License 2.0 (October 21, 2008)

Runtime:

• added WebDAV status codes
• services may check for optional activation key on startup
• services can now provide custom OPTIONS handler
• DreamMessage.AsDocument() now throws an exception if content is non-empty and cannot be parsed into an XML document
• XDoc now always preserves whitespace
• XDocDiff no longer splits words separated by underscore or digits separated by dot/comma
• Accept-Language header can now always instantiate a specific-culture, even if a neutral culture is specified (e.g. "de" vs "de-ch")
• fixed issue in XDocCop that was adding unnecessary &nbsp; characters during validation
• fixed issue in TaskTimer that could cause the timer queue to stall and not fire anymore