OpenMobster 2.2-M4 released

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I would like to announce the latest, 2.2-M4, release of the
OpenMobster Mobile Cloud Platform. We are trying to stay on a new
release every month schedule and this one came in just a bit later
than the 2.2-M3 release.

As far as significance goes, this release needed some Developer API
cleanup. It needed to be made more user friendly and intuitive. In
that regard, 2.2-M4 is not backward compatible with 2.2-M3. This evil
had to be done so that we can move forward more smoothly with a more
intuitive API. This also helps to introduce new APIs in the future
that would all be backward compatible with the platform

Here are some highlights of this release:

* End-to-End Encryption for data stored locally on the device

* Added more ways to query the MobileBeans stored in a Channel

* Improved the performance of querying the MobileBeans

* Cleaned up the Developer API and made it more developer
friendly. On the negative side this breaks backward compatibity of the
components running on the platform

* Bugs and Enhancements

Things to look for in 2.2-M5:

* Adding Support for Blobs in the Sync engine to store and stream
such data locally

* Prototyping iCloud like experience across multiple devices.
Today there is only one device per user supported. Idea was to reduce
sync conflicts. Sync Conflict engine is now mature and can handle
multiple devices per user

* Prototyping Location Oriented Cloud Programming

Enjoy!!!!
Sohil

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