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A release candidate of FOSSology version 1.0 is now available for testing.

We are working on a new release of FOSSology. Things are looking really good and we think we are getting close to release. The current code is easier to install, faster, more accurate, and the best version of FOSSology yet. There still might be some bugs, but we think it’s ready for wider exposure. We have decided to issue a “Release Candidate” for testing.

The source tarball is at: http://fossology.org/testing/fossology-1.0.0~rc1.tar.gz

We are still working on the release notes, they are at: http://fossology.org/release_notes

We have also made debian packages available (source, i386, and amd64 for now). Here is the apt sources.list line.

deb http://fossology.org/debian/ ./

For a single system install you can just “apt-get install fossology”. We are workign on RPM packages, but they are not yet ready - stay tuned.

New in version 0.9.0:

• New “license term” capability added. This features allows the user to

1. create a predefined default set of common license terms/phrases and associate them with specific licenses
2. create new “groups” (aka canonical name) of license terms/phrases to fine tune fossology to identify particular terms within a scanned section and (optionally) associate it with one or more licenses.

This new feature can be accessed via the UI through Organize → License → Manage Groups and via Organize → License → Manage Terms

• Added new agent “licinspect” to inspect license sections for terms that might change the license identification.
• Created agent-license-once-compare.php for selectively choosing the license to compare against. This feature is useful to see why fossology chose one license over another. This feature is available as the “Recompare” micro-menu in the View License window.
• Added columns to the uploadtree table in the fossology db to eliminate expensive queries using join and improve overall db performance.
• delagent: huge speed improvement (went from iterating to just doing one delete.)
• Many new license templates added.
• Many Bug fixes. Including, the “comma comma” problem, where a copyright statement containing a bunch of years separated by commas end up matching all other licenses that contain a series of commas.