Collaber Blog

We are happy to release v1.0.6 version of Collaber.
Even though there are many new features in this version, we consider it as a big fixing version. We have fixed so many bugs that our users are not able to detect yet. Mainly our focus was to make sure workspace is synchronized automatically always.

As we have announced before Collaber is now scriptable. You can write javascript to interact with Collaber.
For example you can send messages to every one in your contact list using..

var identity=collaber.account.identity;
for (int i=0;i<identity.contactsCount;i++) {
var contact=identity.getContactAtIndex(i);
var friends=new Array();
friends[0]=contact;
var msg=identity.createMessage(friends);
msg.content=”hii, how ru?”;
identity.sendMessage(msg);
}

We have done some clever way of file associations with Workspace Invitation and Contact Files with Collaber. Now you can just Double Click then in your windows explorer to open them with Collaber

We have shifted to new Eclipse RCP 3.3. It gives us new GUI layout for maximization of Views and Editors.
Due to this shifting to eclipse 3.3 we are unable to provide update from previous versions. Users are requested to install New version after un-installing the previous version.

Collaber now supports Vista. Users don’t need to be administrators. Any user can use Collaber. Installer will create Shorts for all users now.

Lot of bugs related to permission checking, data synchronization have been fixed in all the tools.

Member activity plugin will enable users to see how many members are active in a given workspace at any instance of time. This is part of our grand initiative towards real-time collaboration.

We have finished development of new voice features which will enable users to make Voice calls just like Skype, Gtalk, Yahoo Messenger. But we will be releasing it as a open-source software which can not be shipped with Collaber. It will be available(on Monday) on the website with instructions to install it.

New Features/ Enhancements:

• Scripting Support for Collaber (JavaScript)
• Native File support for Contact File, And Workspace Invitation. Double click will open in the invitation file.(on windows only)
• Member Activity display in Space View and in Start Page
• Edit support for Old Discussion Topics
• Improved Notepad View
• Support for Vista
• Improved Views and GUI Layout
• All known bugs have been fixed.

Next Step:

This version will be last beta release. There will be small minor updates depending on the bugs found and the importance of the fixes. From now onwards we will work towards first non-beta release of Collaber. This is a big task for us. We want to release non-beta version by starting of next month (Aug 2007).

We are unable to spend time in releasing Relay Server along with 1.0.6. We will be releasing it along with non-beta release of Collaber.

We thank every Collaber user for spending their time in evaluating our software. We are very thank full for those valuable users who have sent us bug reports and suggestions, specially chris, phil, ymir, bcherne, legand.