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I'm happy to announce the first beta release of Pion 2.2 (version 2.2.2). Pion 2.2 includes many Replay usability improvements, an encrypted database for storing and managing SSL keys, a new PythonReactor, command-line monitoring and management scripts, new clickstream performance metrics, and much more!

The following Community Edition changes have been made since our 2.1.12 release:

  • Added a new PythonReactor that allows you to build Reactors using Python (651)
  • Reactor connections can now be easily deleted by just clicking on them (682)
  • Added new cp-rtt and ps-rtt "round trip time" performance metrics (660)
  • Fixed broken handling of zblob data type in various Codec plug-ins (724)
  • HTTPProtocol now defaults to using case-sensitive regular expressions (686)
  • Improved Windows installer to be much simpler and better integrated (668, 680)
  • Added pget.py and pmon.py scripts for monitoring and managing Pion (593, 604)
  • Added -M pion executable option to lock memory usage on Unix platforms (371)
  • Updated UI "restore default" and "delete" buttons to be consistent (733)
  • Updated Pion user interface to use Dojo 1.3.2 (558)
  • HTTPParser query parameter parsing failed on LF & CR characters (681)
  • Improved autoconf detection for support of Boost.Lockfree library (692)
  • Improved error handling in PluginManager when loading fails (736)
  • Fixed "make install" on Unix platforms using autoconf (378)
  • Pion's unit tests now use random port numbers (690)

The following additional changes have been made in Enterprise Edition:

  • SnifferReactor now uses encrypted KeyStore database to manage SSL keys (263)
  • Replay search UI replaced partition selection with time range (628, 653, 672)
  • Improved Replay viewing of sessions that span multiple partitions (727, 734)
  • Replaced MDR partition rotation with storage capacity configuration (716, 719)
  • Replay UI allows you to hide specific columns/terms from search options (706)
  • GoogleAnalyticsReactor search engines configurable via SearchEngines.xml (614)
  • Made all OmnitureAnalyticsReactor XML parameters configurable via UI (723)
  • Improved accuracy of time-taken and page-load ClickstreamReactor metrics (679)
  • Improved default settings for new Sniffer and Clickstream Reactors (711)
  • Fixed database insert failures when using MySQL InnoDB tables (708)
  • Fixed broken mapping of blob/zblob data types for MySQL databases (693)

For a summary of all changes, please see our Trac database at:
http://trac.atomiclabs.com/query?status=new&status=assigned&status=reope...

Community Edition source code downloads are available on our website at:
http://www.pion.org/projects/pion-platform/download

Enterprise Edition binary downloads are available on our website at:
http://www.atomiclabs.com/pion-web-analytics/download.php

A new version of our network library is now available as well on our community development website.