FIWARE Major Release 6

This Release marks FIWARE Major Release 6 Milestone. New features included in this Release are:

• HTML diagnosis front end. Allows to monitor server and plugin stats, and interact with server and plugins. Provides an interface to augment the diagnosis website with new information from custom plugins.
• New resource based middleware. May be used to wrap data on server side into URI addressed resource endpoints, which can be retrieved by HTTP request, or used for Websocket subscriptions
• Semantic JSON-LD based layer over resource endpoints.

FIWARE Release 5.4

Release 5.4 adds the following features since the last release:

• Dynamic Components : Define new component blueprints during run-time. You can register them either via a server side plugin interface, or directly from the client, using FiVES REST-Interface
• Support for NGSIv2 formatted messages : Connect directly to NGSIv2 endpoints using the NGSIv2 - Plugin as provided here: https://github.com/fives-team/fives-ngsiv2-plugin
• Server-to-Server-Communication : Improved Server-to-Server-Synchronization in the ServerSync-Plugin
• Optimized code base so that deploying FiVES in virtual containers is easier, more convenient and more stable
• Several bug fixes and performance improvements

FIWARE Release 4.4.1

FIWARE 4.4.1

This release encompasses all changes that were developed during the Release 4.4.1 of FIWARE. Most important changes are:

• Cleaned up the solution and removed deprecated or unstable plugins
• Upgraded the communication middleware from the previous prototype version to SINFONI version 1.0.0. See also http://github.com/tospie/SINFONI for more details
• Improved loading of SINFONI modules (protocols and transport modules) from a local module folder
• Added an extendable REST Interface with basic scene modification functionality and an API for other plugins to register new rest services
• Aligned the version of FiVES Plugins with the Web Tundra communication package, so that FiVES can also run in compatibility mode for Web Tundra based client applications. See http://github.com/tospie/fives-wt-communication for more details
• Several bugfixes and improvements