New Settings application, package management and user management subs…

…ystem, developer features and build system. Improvements and bugfixes.

Relevant:

- http://community.os.js.org/t/update-version-bump-alpha80/101
- http://community.os.js.org/t/notice-upcoming-grunt-and-build-system-changes/99
- http://community.os.js.org/t/feature-create-applications-without-prototype-chain/96
- http://community.os.js.org/t/feature-import-files-in-your-schemes/95
- http://community.os.js.org/t/feature-scheme-loading-via-metadata-json/94

Digest:

- Calculator: Bugfixes
- FileManager: Updates to context menu and bugfixes
- Settings: Completely rewritten
- CoreWM: Improvements to loading process
- Broadway: Fix contextmenu position
- API: Support for creating applications without prototype chain
- API: Launch now uses preloader scheme support
- API: Scheme now injected into Application::init()
- API: `message()` now supports filtering
- API: New package subsystem
- VFS: WebDAV updates
- VFS: Added operation shortcuts to File object
- MountManager: Can now save and restore custom mountpoints
- Utils: Preloader improvements
- Utils: Preloader now supports parallel loading
- Utils: Preloader now supports Scheme files
- Utils: Added `$create()` method
- GUI: Now possible to include external files in Schemes
- GUI: Scheme files are now cached
- GUI: Menu bugfixes
- GUI: ListView now scrolls into correct position on refresh
- GUI: ListView now respects attributes in head elements from html
- GUI: Now possible to deselect items by clicking outside entries
- GUI: iOS support improvements
- GUI: Better handling of transitions and animations
- UI: Better hotkey handling
- Themes: Added some generic CSS classes
- Themes: Correction of resource paths
- server-node: Added new package manager
- server-node: Added new package manager via handler
- server-php: Added new user management
- server-php: Added new package manager via handler
- server-php: Improvements
- misc: Optimizations and minor code improvements
- misc: Support for loading package preloads on boot
- misc: Removed PackageManager application. Everything can be found in Settings
- misc: Updated unit tests
- misc: Updated locales
- misc: Updated docs
- misc: Linting
- build: Rewritten build system
- build: Standalone build updates

Core API WebSocket support, Desktop now uses VFS mount, New touch men…

…u, Bugfixes, Improvements and optimizations.

Relevant:

- http://community.os.js.org/t/update-version-bump-alpha79/92
- http://community.os.js.org/t/feature-api-over-websocket/91
- http://community.os.js.org/t/feature-widgets/90

Digest:

* UI: Support for RTL languages
* CoreWM: Now uses core fullscreen handling
* CoreWM: Added hook for contextmenu
* CoreWM: All settings moved to src/conf
* CoreWM: New touchmenu
* CoreWM: Desktop now uses real path from VFS
* Writer: Bugfixes and UIX improvements
* Preview: Added zooming capabilities for images
* Calculator: Prevent device keyboard to come up on mobile
* FirefoxMarketplace: Moved to the 'experimental' repo
* Utils: Added mousewheel to the event handler
* Utils: Added getCookie() function
* Core: Added support for WebSocket API calls
* Handler: New connection code abstraction
* API: Added 'toggleFullscreen' method
* VFS: Added support for aliases in mounts
* VFS: Added Desktop mount alias
* GUI: gui-statusbar now handles its children better
* GUI: Bugfixes from any changes in previous release
* GUI: gui-list-view now has text ellipse just like the body content
* server-node: Added 'testing' mode
* server-node: Updated unit tests
* server-node: Added default groups for system logins
* server-node: Added proper logging
* server-php: Fixes for installations in sub-directories
* build: Added package listing grunt command
* build: Updated grunt commands
* locales: Updated Korean (ko_KR) translations
" locales; Added Arabic (ar_DZ) translations
* misc: Now using eslint instead of jslint+jscs
* misc: Updated Travis CI
* misc: General linting and cleanups
* misc: Optimizations
* misc: Updated documentation
* misc: Updated dependencies

New event handling and touch system, VFS improvements, bugfixes and e…

…ntire codebase now uses JSDoc.

Digest:

* UI: Entirely new touch event handling system
* UI: Updated IE support
* UI: General performance improvements
* Utils: Added `$css()` method
* Utils: Added extend and inherit methods
* Core: XHR requests now always responds with correct errors
* Core: Added `LocaleDetect` config for automatic locale detection
* Core: Added `MountManager` Class for maintining mounts
* CoreWM: Bugfixes
* Themes: Added `@base_font_size` variable
* API: `getConfig()` no longer throws errors and instead return defined default value
* API: `open()` now supports directories
* VFS: Added `LocalStorage` module
* VFS: Added `Web Transport` module
* VFS: Improvements to read-only mounts
* VFS: Reworked internal Transport APIs
* VFS: Better configuration support
* VFS: Can now natively use http/https paths
* VFS: `File` now guesses MIME type automatically
* VFS: Fixes to `OneDrive`
* Handler: More extension support
* GUI: Added more helpers to `UIElement`
* GUI: Reworked `gui-menu` event handling
* GUI: Rewroked `gui-menu-bar` event handling
* GUI: Reworked `DataView` event handling
* GUI: Added programatic support for all menu elements
* GUI: Rewrote expensive CSS rules
* locales: Updated `vi_VN`
* server-node: Now possible to override home path resolver
* server-node: Application apis now loaded when server starts
* server-node: Added pre-init support for application APIs
* server-php: Better Windows support
* misc: Updated `src/conf` organization
* misc: Split up some namespaces/files
* misc: General cleanups
* misc: Removed unused and deprecated functions
* misc: General bugfixes based on feedback from community
* build: Improved package preload parsing in Grunt
* doc: Entire codebase now uses JSDoc
* doc: Added examples

A ton of new features, massive amount of cleanups. General bugfixes a…

…nd improvements

to documentation and developer features.

Relevant:

- http://community.os.js.org/t/features-extending-base-css/65
- http://community.os.js.org/t/notice-node-server-api-changes/73
- http://community.os.js.org/t/features-package-less-and-custom-script-support/72

Digest:

* Core: New 'Process' event system
* Core: Better handling of autostarting
* Core: Added more internal hooks
* CoreWM: Improvements to smaller screen support
* CoreWM: window list panel item now has context menu from actual window
* CoreWM: Rewritten panel CSS implementation (better scaling and rotation support)
* CoreWM: Better touch menu handling
* CoreWM: Proper hotkey handling via configs
* CoreWM: Fixed wrong calculation of desktop area when panel is on bottom
* CoreWM: Trigger `resize()` when responsive design kicks in/out
* CoreWM: CSS improvements
* settings-manager: bugfixes
* dialogs: Better handling of 'markdown-ish' messages
* window: Added 'inited' hook/signal
* WindowManager: Prevent crash when `Window::init` fails
* Themes: Support for custom base LESS files
* GUI: Disabled spell-shecking etc by default from textual inputs
* GUI: Cleanups of some methods
* GUI: Added scoped `son()` for events so you can bind context
* GUI: Added `get('selected')` to 'gui-tabs'
* GUI: 'gui-fileview' no longer shows empty columns on '0 bytes'
* GUI: Prevent error on invalid triggers in 'Scheme'
* GUI: Scheme now supports using `app://` to load `src` attributes
* GUI: 'gui-list-view' now behaves as a table
* GUI: Bugfixes in Scheme
* UI: Better `user-select` CSS
* Handler: Exposed `saveSession()``
* API: Better application shutdown API
* API: Fixes to `getThemeResource()`
* API: Cleanups
* Utils: `$index()` now checks elements to prevent errors
* Utils: `dirname()` bugfixes
* Utils: Added `$parent()` function
* Utils: Added `keyCombination()` function
* Utils: Improved preloader
* VFS: Throw exceptions as early as possible in the API chain
* VFS: Improved copying between different mountpoints
* VFS: Updated signals and error handling
* VFS: Cleanups
* locales: Updated vi_VN
* server-node: Moved core code into 'core' directory
* server-node: Better commandline option support
* server-node: Some improvements to `scandir()`
* server-node: Display correct url when launching server
* server-node: Added uncaughtException handler
* server-node: Refactoring of entire API chain method arguments
* server-node: Cleanups and bugfixes
* build: Improved windows support in build scripts
* build: Added support for append version string in resources
* build: Customizable watermarks
* build: Support for LESS files in applications
* build: Support for custom before/after scripts in application build process
* misc: More work on developer environment
* misc: Updated unit tests
* misc: Updated bithoundrc
* misc: Fixed typos in documentation
* misc: Updated docs

Version bump

This update brings you a new Search Engine implementation, HTTP/2 support, lots of bugfixes
and general impreovements. Also a new HTML Viewer application.

Relevant:

- http://community.os.js.org/t/quick-tips-window-events/47/1
- http://community.os.js.org/t/feature-search-engine/43
- http://community.os.js.org/t/feature-http-v2/44/2

Digest:

* Core: Implemented Search Engine
* API: Prevent `Script Error Line 0` error
* GUI: Fixed a bug in ListView where wrong element was removed
* GUI: DataView now has `get('entry')` for getting all entries
* HTMLViewer: New application
* CoreWM: Added support for custom labels on desktop iconview entires
* CoreWM: Better resizing of windows
* CoreWM: Cleanups
* CoreWM: Fixed a case where custom CSS was not generated properly
* CoreWM: Prevent applySetting from triggering on watches
* CoreWM: Added search panel item
* CoreWM: Support dynamic CSS media queries
* CoreWM: Better panel scaling
* Settings: Prevent errors when selecting non-existing category
* VFS: Regenerate user metadata when you remove a user-installed package
* VFS: Added 'searhable' mountpoint attribute
* VFS: Added 'find()' method
* windows: Better hooks API
* server-node: Now supports HTTP/2
* handlers: Reduce codesize with traits
* misc: Cleanups and general code improvements
* misc: Some fixes for IE
* build: Support CSS map files
* build: Remove some deprecated stuff
* build: Configurable media queries
* doc: Updated handler docs
* doc: Updated API docs

Version bump

Bugfixes, Locale updates, Security and general improvements.

* API: Prevent error when preload list is empty
* API: Fixed dependencies being loaded in wrong order
* API: Added 'onApplicationPreload' hook
* API: getApplicationResource can now return VFS path
* GUI: Improved error handling in FileView
* GUI: Menu now opens subitems to the left if they escape the viewport
* GUI: gui-iframe now has automatic webview detection
* VFS: registerMountpoint now respects the 'enabled' property
* VFS: Fix upload problems in os-js#364
* VFS: Fixed error handling where some code lead to false-positives
* Utils: Added 'asyncs' method
* Utild: 'dirname' no longer throws error on empty input
* Core: Added lots of freezing/sealing of object to make things immutable
* CoreWM: Update locale properly on saving of settings (visual bug)
* CoreWM: Application list generation now uses 'visible' metadata property
* CoreWM: Moved window switcher to 'ALT+TILDE'
* CoreWM: Added support for modifying shortcuts on desktop (via dialog)
* Calculator: Added Infinity check
* FileManager: Fixed . triggering DELETE key
* package-manager: Added support for adding dummy packages on runtime
* package-manager: Immutable getters
* process: Added _getResource(str) shortcut
* application: Added _loadScheme() shortcut
* Locales: Updated vi_VN
* Locales: Updated fa_FA
* Locales: Updated fr_FR
* Locales: Updated nl_NL
* server-node: Added system login abstraction to handler
* server-node: Updated PAM handler
* server-node: Added 'Shadow' handler
* server-node: Default Handler can now handle directory formatting properly
* server-node: Added colored logging output
* server-node: Updated internal proxy support
* server-node: Now uses tmpdir defined in config
* server-node: Improved file uploading support
* intel-edison: Now uses the shadow handler
* intel-edison: Updated support and filesystem
* build: Updated intel-edison support
* build: Updated package build support (ex, arduino, edison, raspi)
* build: opkg templates updated
* build: Now using grunt-contrib-validate-xml for Scheme validation
* build: Icon Packs now support 'parent' theme
* build: Added 'grunt packages:list' task
* build: Fixed usage on wrong identifier for autostart generation
* doc: Updated documentation
* doc: Updated README
* doc: Updated INSTALL
* doc: New Screenshot in README
* misc: Updated dependencies

Version bump

New wallpaper, UI improvements, bugfixes and many improvements to the build system(s). Also new developer features!

* UI: New Wallpaper
* UI: Added loading bar to boot
* UI: Added WAI-ARIA support
* UI: Schemes can now change window properties (like dimensions)
* GUI: Fixed menu not disappearing in certain cases
* GUI: Added `getNextElement()` helper method
* GUI: Better `show()` and `hide()` methods for GUI Elements
* GUI: GUI Elements now has `appendHTML()` method
* GUI: GUI Elements now has `remove()` and `empty()` methods
* GUI: `append()` in GUI Elements now builds items correctly (when doing it dynamically)
* GUI: Added minimum sizes to some containers where missing
* GUI: gui-image src checked if null
* GUI: Fixed radios not getting unselected properly
* GUI: Better Scheme APIs
* GUI: Added DnD support to TreeView
* GUI: Updated gui-richtext error handling
* GUI: Updated gui-paned-view resize events to be more precise
* GUI: All elements now support clipboard
* GUI: Better DataView abstractions for ease of development (extensions)
* API: Updated cURL method with new functionality
* API: Added onhashchange support for application messaging
* API: Deprecated `Application::_call()` in favour of `Application::_api()`
* API: `API.call()` now has pattern `=> fn(err, res)`
* API: Moved `API::createDraggable()` to `GUI::Helpers::createDraggable()`
* API: Moved `API::createDroppable()` to `GUI::Helpers::createDroppable()`
* Dialogs: Prevent HTML injection in confirm dialog
* Dialogs: Focus the 'abort' button by default
* Windows: Updated next tab support
* Windows: Added `_find()` shortcut for scheme
* Windows: Added `_findByQuery()` shortcut for scheme
* Utils: Better $hasClass
* ProcessViewer: Remaned forgotten file
* MusicPlayer: Updated compability
* FileManager: Now has clipboard support
* FileManager: Added new keyboard shortcuts
* Calculator: Focus is now always on the input field
* locales: Added missing it_IT translations
* locales: Improved ru_RU translations
* package-manager: Better extension support
* package-manager: Updated user-installed package support
* platform: Updated edison support
* build: Updated NW support
* build: Removed all dist files, now generated from template
* build: Updated config generation and setting
* build: Updated manifest generation
* build: Fixed setting configs with leading zeroes
* build: Metadata now supports `uses` property
* build: Metadata now supports `depends` property
* build: Apache files now generated with proxies from config
* build: Enabling/Disabling packages now happends in config, not manifest
* server-node: Added 'rawtype' option to `VFS::write()`
* server-node: Prevent crash when loading of extension fails
* server-node: Added support for proxies
* server-node: Now supports spawning child processes
* server-node: Now uses proper sessions via cookie
* config: Updated to relative paths
* misc: Updated Travis support
* misc: Updated Vagrant support
* misc: Updated Docker support
* misc: Updated packages.json dependencies
* misc: Updated MIME database
* misc: Cleanups
* doc: Updated CONTRIBUTING
* doc: Updated README
* doc: Updated INSTALL
* doc: Updated homepage
* doc: Updated docs

Version bump

A ton of fixes, improvements and developer support updates!

Now also supports Intel Edison platforms.

* GUI: Better touch support
* GUI: Better scaling support
* GUI: Added media-queries for devices <800px
* GUI: gui-grid now dynamic
* GUI: Added some more generics to CSS (like % containers)
* API: Added relaunc() to relaunch/reload apps
* API: getIcon() should now always return proper file icons
* VFS: General improvements
* VFS: WebDAV implementation complete
* VFS: Better handling of copy/move between identical transports
* VFS: General improvements
* About: Rewritten
* Preview: Fixed video position
* Calculator: Refactored completely
* Settings: Package Management moved to its own app
* Settings: Now only shows physically loaded languages
* CoreWM: Updated weather panel item
* CoreWM: Updated windowlist panel item
* CoreWM: Cleaned up CSS
* CoreWM: Fixed loading indicators
* CoreWM: Updated touch menu
* CoreWM: Improved notification area
* CoreWM: No longer shows handles on non-resizable windows
* CoreWM: Improved resize clamping
* CoreWM: Simplified Window HTML markup a bit
* FileManager: Added create connection dialog
* iframe-application: Better initialization
* iframe-application: Better bi-directional communications support
* dialogs: Support for creating from custom callback and scheme
* utils: Added `acceptcodes` to XHR call
* handlers: Updated init() patterns
* handlers: Updated NW support
* handlers: Simplified integration
* handlers: Now supports blacklisting of apps
* handlers: Now reads settings from src/conf
* handlers: Better mysql handler
* handlers: bcrypt in mysql handler
* handlers: Demo handler fixes for PHP
* locales: Updated en_EN
* locales: Updated fr_FR
* locales: Updated ko_KR
* server-node: Updated APIs
* server-node: Better extension support
* server-node: Fixed where curl would returned garbled binaries
* server-node: Bugfixes
* server-node: Updated HTTP return codes
* server-node: Deny deletion of protocol root dirs
* server-node: Better logging
* server-php: Deny deletion of protocol root dirs
* build: Added support for generating Handlers
* build: Grunt now handles extensions better
* build: Renamed `package.json` to `metadata.json` for apps
* build: Better package extension support
* build: Added `autostart` parameter to package metadata
* build: Better feedback on grunt create-package tasks
* build: Now supports making opkg dists
* build: Better deb dist support
* build: Includes a "packaging" script
* doc: Updated INSTALL
* doc: Updated README
* doc: Updated CONTRIBUTING
* doc: Updated all platform docs
* doc: Updated all installation docs
* doc: Updated code docs
* misc: Added .github (new) features
* misc: Updated templates
* misc: Removed deprecated methods
* misc: Updated browser compabilty
* misc: Fixed some possible vulnerabilities
* platform: Now fully supports Intel Edison

Version bump

New Logo, Moved repo to organization, Better privilege and group support, a ton of bugfixes and improvements!

* Calculator: Updates
* Writer: Updates
* FileManager: Locale updates
* FileManager: UI improvements and better VFS triggers
* CoreWM: Improved notifications
* CoreWM: When shut down, settings are reset to defaults
* CoreWM: Fixed desktop shortcuts
* CoreWM: Fixed loading indicators
* Draw: Locale updates and bugfixes
* dialogs: Updated File dialog, bugfixes
* dialogs: API::createDialog() now has default callback
* windowmanager: Bugfixes
* windownanager: Clamp resize values when resizing
* gui: StatusBar improvements
* gui: PanedView improvements
* gui: FileView improvements and fixes
* gui: Updated login screen look
* scheme: Bugfixes
* handler: Improved API
* handler: Updated NW support
* handler: Included server handlers now use bcrypt
* settings-manager: Improved saving
* application: _onMessage() now returns boolean
* application: Moved get/set Argument functions down to process
* iframe-application: IE/Edge improvements
* default-application: Added CTRL+S shortcut
* default-application: Added CTRL+O shortcut
* zip-archiver: Added removal support and many fixes and improvements
* vfs: Added 'Blob' support
* vfs: Added support for custom mountpoints via client API
* vfs: Added WebDAV support
* vfs: Overhault of apis
* vfs: Support for HTTP reads over general api
* vfs: Better handling of datauri data transfers
* vfs: File upload abstraction improvements
* api: HTTP API URI overhalut (entirely new and improved)
* server-node: Now has checkserver-nodePrivilege
* server-node: Now has checkVFSPrivilege
* server-node: Now has checkPackagePrivilege
* server-node: Added exif info in fileinfo()
* server-node: Added permission info in fileinfo()
* server-node: General improvements and cleanups
* server: Reworked handler server integration
* themes: Some Firefox related fixes
* themes: updated Wallpaper
* themes: updated favicon
* themes: Updated 'Material' theme
* locales: Added Portuguese (pt_BR)
* locales: Added Korean (ko_KR)
* locales: Updated French (fr_FR)
* locales: Updated Polish (pl_PL)
* utils: XHR call now has timeout argument
* utils: XHR IE/Edge updates
* utils: Added parseurl() function
* build: Added 'ReloadOnShutdown' client config
* build: Updated Windows symlinks script
* build: Grunt compress task now also does core files
* build: Improved Windows support
* build: Added support for creating dummy packages
* build: Updated Gruntfile
* build: Improved 'dist' file generation
* build: Updated unit-tests
* build: CSS is now also linted
* build: Code style check improvements
* build: Now places manifest in server dir for backend as well
* build: Support for custom server src/conf entries
* misc: Added .editorconfig
* misc: Updated installer scripts
* misc: Updated locales overall
* misc: Code file-tree updates
* misc: Removed deprecated code
* misc: Cleaned up a lot of stuff
* misc: Improved error logging
* misc: Updated Vagrantfile
* misc: Added new error handling to async functions
* misc: jshint
* misc: Updated MIME database
* misc: Moved some dependencies to devDependencies
* doc: Updated README
* doc: Updated INSTALL
* doc: Added logo SVG sources
* doc: Added complete node backend documentation
* doc: Cleaned up all documentation
* doc: Updated bithoundrc
* doc: Updated package.json
* doc: Updated badges

Version bump

OS.js exploded on social media and there was a lot of activity. This is just a digest of all the changes.

Thanks to everyone for helping out :-)

* server-php: Now returns ISO8601 dates
* server-node: VFS::upload() now respects 'overwrite' flag
* server-node: Separation of all backend logic
* zip-archiver: Added add() and list() support and other improvements
* FileManager: Added read-only symbol in list and other improvements
* ProcessViewer: Fixed column sizes
* Draw: Bugfixes
* Calculator: Bugfixes
* CoreWM: Clock PanelItem now has configurable tooltip
* Window: Some improvments to async handling
* Application: _getMainWindow() now returns actual window
* GUI: ListView improvements
* GUI: FileView improvements
* GUI: General improvements
* GUI: StatusBar improvements
* GUI: Richtext improvements
* Dialogs: File dialog improvements
* VFS: Dropbox now has proper timeout for requests
* VFS: upload() now has support for custom parameters
* Utils: Added Utils::$escape()
* themes: Added material theme
* locales: Updated en_EN
* locales: Updated pl_PL
* locales: Updated vi_VN
* locales: Updated nl_NL
* locales: Updated fr_FR
* locales: Added tr_TR
* locales: Added bg_BG
* locales: Added sk_SK
* misc: Lots of bugfixes
* misc: All windows should now get focus back after dialog close
* misc: You can now run server helper scripts from any cwd
* misc: Renamed example-handler to mysql-handler
* misc: linting and style updates to entire codebase
* misc: General async improvements leading to less triggered errors
* misc: Updated MIME maps
* misc: A lot of cleanups
* misc: New logo!
* build: You can now set config via `grunt config:set`
* build: You can now get config via `grunt config:get`
* build: You can now add preloads with `grunt config:preload`
* build: You can now write generated configs to a specified file
* build: jscs now part of testing
* build: Travis CI
* build: Standalone improvements
* build: Added NW support
* build: Updated X11 support
* build: Added debian package build support
* build: Removed deprecated Grunt tasks
* doc: Updated copyright to 2016
* doc: Ensure consistency in code license headers
* doc: Updated codebase docs
* doc: Updated README
* doc: Updated INSTALL
* doc: Updated CONTRIBUTING.md
* doc: Updated doc/NW.md
* doc: Updated doc/X11.md
* doc: Updated doc/*-handler.md