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Last updated: Jan 15, 2005Version comment

09/06/2005 : RC 2.0.1 is out!

  • Site improvements
  • Some parts of the site are now hosted using the OCTO Technology web access on the SushiWiki server. Thanks to Eric Groise.
  • Moved from moniwiki to confluence for collaboration
  • Moved from sourceforge to jira for issue tracking
  • Thanks to Atlassian software
  • framework improvements
  • This is a minor bug fix release
  • Moving to a more readable default engine
  • Tunning some engine
  • New Issue tracker system, thanks to altassian : see jcaptcha jira
  • Removing log configuration from jar : see bug 1078250 @ sourceforge
  • Moving tld to META-INF directory : see bug 1087577 @ sourceforge

18/11/2004

  • RC-2 available including following new features:
  • JRoller integration module and documentation
  • New captcha storage service based on Ehcache
  • Captcha Service Optimisation by new implementation of asynchronous Captcha buffer based on Ehcache
  • Sruts tutorial + sample application based on the struts mailreader sample

23/10/2004

  • Near RC-2
  • Adding a Roller module
  • Adding a service implementation using ehcache as store
  • Adding a service implementation that asynchronously builds a captcha buffer
  • Adding a struts sample based on the struts mailreader sample app

06/08/2004

  • Releasing RC-1
  • BEWARE : this new version has a complete new architecture from beta-2! Major package renaming and refactoring!!!!
  • We have splited the source tree : this version is under the jcaptcha/jcaptcha source folder in CVS.

01/08/2004

  • Adding performance tests for Engines
  • New logo for JcaptchaLogo submitted, waiting for vote!
  • End of refactoring
  • Adding a default engine and service ready to use.

17/05/2004 moving to jdk1.3

  • Code has moved : now JDK 1.3
  • will be release in the beta-5

20/04/04

  • Two new captchas :
  • FishEye : a "clic on the center of deformation" challenge.
  • initialization of sound implementation.

06/04/04 Major refactoring work is almost done. A new version is about to be released.

  • This new release includes :
  • the cleaned CoreModule that provides Captchas interfaces and typed implementations.
  • the renamed EngineModule : an engine provides ready to use captchas.
  • the new ServiceModule : a service provide a standardized interface to serve Captchas, and a managageable interface too.
  • the new ModuleBase and ModuleStruts providing stuff to integrate a captcha service with your application.
  • Licence has been moved from Apache to LGPL.
  • A tutorial to captchaized your application is on its way, with two samples :
    the captcha-ized http://www.rollerweblogger.org/page/project and the J2EE petstore.

12/02/04

  • New architecture for the j2ee module commited : all the "business" logic has been mutualized in a JMX manageable ?ImageCaptchaService class. A Web service endpoint for axis has been created in the com.octo.captcha.j2ee.rpc package. You can find its axis deployment descriptor (.wsdd) in the src/conf directory. The web service need to be further tested, but it will be documented woth a user manual similar to the ImageCaptchaFilter one for the beta2 (or beta3 ?) release. It is also planned to unit test the ?ImageCaptchaService and to use it in a new version of the ImageCaptchaFilter.
    10/02/04 Two new components commited : composedictionarywordgenerator and baffletextpaster to enable parc like jcaptchas.

09/02/04 The Service interfaces and base implementations are commited

07/02/04 New site is up!

02/02/04 JcapTcha beta 1.0, the java CAPTCHA framework is available for download on sourceforge