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Next release thoughts

RC1 testing is well underway and it seems there aren't too many bugs so the final release is not going to be long. So this would be a nice time to have a look at the next release, here are a couple of things you can expected.

  • Reference text fields support
    Wouldn't it be nice if you could just type the first few characters of a reference and it would automatically link it instead of having to look through a dropdown list? And if you typed something that doesn't exist that it is automatically added? Inspired by the blog tags this feature will be available for all references.
  • Configurable users module
    The currently user module is pretty basic which and although it does what it says on the tin you might need some more flexbility. Think of email validation, preset language and timezone, IP restrictions, brute force protections, etc.
  • JAS Daemon
    Schedulars are very nice and all but they just don't cut it for realtime processing of information. The JAS daemon will continuously monitor a variety of services (think HTTP, FTP, POP, file systems, etc) and get busy if action is required. Additionally it will have a build-in schedular so it can poll things like RSS feeds.
  • JSON & RSS APIs
    Of course JAS also needs a JSON API, we just didn't get around to building it. Additionally being able to monitor comment posts on your website via RSS would be nice right?
  • Workflow
    JAS already supports basic workflows for modules but anyone that can edit the module data can change its workflow state. The idea is to have events in the module that get triggered on a state change which can apply additional logic to determine whether the state change is allowed.
  • Encryption / Decryption
    Currently JAS only supports password hashing, the next release will have encrypt/decrypt for a number of the typical ciphers. This would for example enable PGP file signatures.

Have a look at the other changes that are lined up for 1.1.

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