Release Notes of openHAB version 0.8

openHAB Release 0.8

Version 0.8 comes with many new features and bug fixes.

Here is what has been implemented in this release:

New & Noteworthy

Version 0.8.0

• added new MAP transformation service to allow easy customization of item status texts (see issue 26)
• added DateTimeItem/Type to support date and time values in items
• added Ntp Binding to retrieve current time from external servers
• bug fix for crashing background services
• added connection type ROUTER to KNXConnection
• added action to call transformation services from within rules
• added text-to-speech functionality with a 100% pure Java implementation (based on FreeTTS) and a native Mac OSX implementation.
• Speaker volume control is now possible on Mac OSX as well.
• Upgraded to Eclipse Indigo release
• Fixed bug in bluetooth binding startup
• Images/icons can now be customized as they are available in a folder
• added a REST API to interact with items and sitemaps
• added Mpd Binding to connect to Music Player Deamon instances
• added a Mac OS X version of the openHAB Designer
• bugfix for GCalEventDownloader - end of multiline commands is now detected correctly