0.2.8 fixes a critical issue where the performance of account signup degraded exponentially as accounts were created in the server.

Find download instructions, documentation, and the complete list of resolved issues at the Cosmo home page at

As always, see RELEASE-NOTES.txt in the distribution for upgrade notes.

0.2.7 fixes two critical data consistency issues:

• PUTs aborted partway through the process caused Cosmo to store the partial file and return a success response rather than failing as expected [5078]
• Simultaneous signup operations could fail, resulting in broken accounts without home directories in the repository [5095]

Find download instructions, documentation, and the complete list of resolved issues at the Cosmo home page at .

As always, see RELEASE-NOTES.txt in the distribution for upgrade notes.

0.2.6 is a bugfix release focused on scalability, security and minor UI enhancements.

Find download instructions, documentation, and the list of resolved issues at the Cosmo home page at .

As always, see RELEASE-NOTES.txt in the distribution for upgrade notes.

0.2.5 fixes a major memory leak and a few other bugs, and it includes a few enhancements:

* user account’s email address and first and last names may now be up to 128 bytes long
* new CMP operations that allow an authenticated user to read and write his own account info
* all CMP PUT requests return ETags
* all CMP PUT requests return specific status codes for “email in use” and “username in use” errors

Find download instructions, documentation, and the list of resolved issues at the Cosmo home page at .

As always, see RELEASE-NOTES.txt in the distribution for upgrade notes.

0.2.4 is a bugfix release focusing on stability and scalability. It also includes a few new operations-oriented features:

* control over startup features via environment variables
* a simple server status page
* a CMP operation allowing anonymous users to sign up for Cosmo accounts without presenting admin credentials

As of 0.2.4, Cosmo now requires Java 5.0 (sometimes called 1.5).

Find download instructions, documentation, and the list of resolved
issues at the Cosmo home page at
.

As always, see RELEASE-NOTES.txt in the distribution for upgrade notes.