diff --git a/news/gayoub/2015-09-14@15:27:38.rst b/news/gayoub/2015-09-14@15:27:38.rst new file mode 100644 index 00000000..bc467bda --- /dev/null +++ b/news/gayoub/2015-09-14@15:27:38.rst @@ -0,0 +1,78 @@ +Radicale 1.0, what's next? +========================== + +Radicale 1.0 is out! + +1.0 - Sunflower +--------------- + +* Enhanced performances (by Mathieu Dupuy) +* Add MD5-APR1 and BCRYPT for htpasswd-based authentication (by Jan-Philip Gehrcke) +* Use PAM service (by Stephen Paul Weber) +* Don't discard PROPPATCH on empty collections (Markus Unterwaditzer) +* Write the path of the collection in the git message (Matthew Monaco) +* Tests launched on Travis + +As explained in a previous `mail +`_, +this version is called 1.0 because: + +- there are no big changes since 0.10 but some small changes are really useful, +- simple tests are now automatically launched on Travis, and more can be added + in the future (https://travis-ci.org/Kozea/Radicale). + +This version will be maintained with only simple bug fixes on a separate git +branch called ``1.0.x``. + +Now that this milestone is reached, it's time to think about the future. When +Radicale has been created, it was just a proof-of-concept. The main goal was to +write a small, stupid and simple CalDAV server working with Lightning, using no +external libraries. That's how we created a piece of code that's (quite) easy +to understand, to use and to hack. + +The first lines have been added to the SVN (!) repository as I was drinking +beers at the very end of 2008. It's now packaged for a growing number of Linux +distributions. + +And that was fun going from here to there thanks to you. So… **Thank you, +you're amazing**. I'm so glad I've spent endless hours fixing stupid bugs, +arguing about databases and meeting invitations, reading incredibly interesting +RFCs and debugging with the fabulous clients from Apple. I mean: that really, +really was really, really cool :). + +During these years, a lot of things have changed and many users now rely on +Radicale in production. For example, I use it to manage medical calendars, with +thousands requests per day. Many people are happy to install Radicale on their +small home servers, but are also frustrated by performance and unsupported +specifications when they're trying to use it seriously. + +So, now is THE FUTURE! I think that Radicale 2.0 should: + +- rely on a few external libraries for simple critical points (dealing with + HTTP and iCal for example), +- be thread-safe, +- be small, +- be documented in a different way (for example by splitting the client part + from the server part, and by adding use cases), +- let most of the "auth" modules outside in external modules, +- have more and more tests, +- have reliable and faster filesystem and database storage mechanisms, +- get a new design :). + +I'd also secretly love to drop the Python 2.x support. + +These ideas are not all mine (except from the really, really, really important +"design" point :p), they have been proposed by many developers and users. I've +just tried to gather them and keep points that seem important to me. + +Other points have been discussed with many users and contibutors, including: + +- support of other clients, including Windows and BlackBerry phones, +- server-side meeting invitations, +- different storage system as default (or even unique?). + +I'm not a huge fan of these features, either because I can't do anything about +them, or because I think that they're Really Bad Ideas®™. But I'm ready to talk +about them, because, well, I may not be always right! + +Need to talk about this? You know how to `contact us `_! diff --git a/pages/download.rst b/pages/download.rst index ab803059..0a80afe2 100644 --- a/pages/download.rst +++ b/pages/download.rst @@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ Source Packages You can download the Radicale package for each release: +- `Radicale-1.0.tar.gz + `_ + (42 KiB) - `Radicale-0.10.tar.gz `_ (42 KiB)