[DFDL-WG] Announcement: Daffodil 2.0.0 Release Candidate 1 - Release to Test

[Steve Lawrence]

We are pleased to announce the first release candidate of Daffodil 2.0.0!

Notable changes since Daffodil 1.1.0 include unparse achieving full
feature parity with parse, support for additional unparse only
properties such as outputValueCalc, fillByte,
truncateSpecifiedLengthString, etc., numerous bug fixes in parse, and
improved parse performance.

The release candidate has been tagged as 2.0.0-rc1 in the git repo:


https://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/bitbucket/projects/DFDL/repos/daffodil/browse

The release is also available for downloaded from the Daffodil Artifacts
page:


https://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/projects/artifacts.php?key=DFDL&version=2.0.0-rc1

Daffodil will now enter the test phase, which we expect to last
approximately 3 weeks, followed by the official release of Daffodil 2.0.0.

Please give the release candidate a test and let us know if you find any
issues. To report bugs or ask any questions, the development team is
available on the Daffodil users mailing list:

  http://oss.tresys.com/mailman/listinfo/daffodil-users

as well as XMPP HipChat:

  http://hipchat.ncsa.illinois.edu/gvZdmJHmq

or via the JIRA Daffodil bug tracker:

  https://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/jira/projects/DFDL/summary

On behalf of the Daffodil team,
- Steve