Release notes for the OSGi Bundle Versioning Service (OBVS).

Release 1.0.beta and 1.0.beta2 (6th Sept, 2010)

First public release of the service.

Known limitations

Service

• Does not provide detailed problem reporting (bundle broken vs. service broken)
• (Bug filed)

OSGi level

• Qualifier part of the version IDs? is dropped upon versioning
• Changes in imported packages not considered (e.g. adding an imported package should bump major part of Bundle-Version, but does not)
• Declarative Services not handled
• Private-Package packages not versioned
• "include" and "exclude" directives not handled, "specification-version" attribute ignored (not updated; only the "version" attribute is updated)
• (Bugs filed)

Java level

• Java 5 features (generics, annotations) not considered in bundle comparison
• Some complex generics are not represented and therefore are not compared
• Underlying Java comparator throws exceptions on certain class recursion patterns

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