Category Archives: Announcements

Cougaar 12.7 Released

The Cougaar development team at Raytheon BBN Technologies is please to announce that Cougaar 12.7 has been released.

Cougaar 12.7 is a rebase of Cougaar. It is primarily about consolidating down to a smaller subset of the code that represents the core functionality and re-organizing to make it easier to install and use, particularly for developers of both applications and the core software. This makes Cougaar more supportable in the long term. Therefore, Cougaar 12.7 contains no significant new functionality.

See the 12.7 Release Notes, 12.7 build directory for downloads, updated Javadocs, and the Gitweb repository viewer.

Cougaar 12.6 Released

The Cougaar development team at Raytheon BBN Technologies is please to announce that Cougaar 12.6 has been released.

Highlights of this release are:

  • Annotations for easy specification of Plugin Parameters, Subscriptions, Service Bindings and Queries. Some tutorials have been updated to use annotations. See Query Annotations.
  • Generics support for black board subscriptions and predicates that reduces runtime checking of instanceof and subsequent casting. See Generics.
  • As announced in the past few months, but not in a release yet, the Cougaar repository was converted from CVS to Git with the retention of all checkin messages, tags, and branches. cougaar.org hosts external Git repositories.
  • Cougaar now requires Java 6 to compile and execute.
  • Agent lifecycle improvements.

See the 12.6 Release Notes, 12.6 build directory for downloads, updated Javadocs, and the Gitweb repository viewer.

Added repository viewer

Set up a read-only repository viewer using the gitweb tool.  Visit http://cougaar.org/gitweb

This is also a source viewer, if you switch to the “tree” view and navigate down and then click on a file name.  The file names don’t look like links but really are.

Here is an example (with the middle of the image removed for space):

Forums are available

The Cougaar Forums (using the phpBB3 forum software) are available at Forums. There are access controls in place to restrict visibility due to numerous account requests from sp*mbots in the past . If you need access but can’t see it, please email support@cougaar.org with your IP or IP address range.

Reorganized uploads and builds directories

Reorganized uploads directory and all the releases and documents to cougaar.org/build and cougaar.org/doc.  All the links should have been adjusted for it.  This supports organizing documents by release or year, as appropriate.

The plan as we go forward is to organize the site as follows:

Each release has its own release note, online web manuals, manuals.

cougaar.org/doc/<release>/javadoc/
cougaar.org/doc/<release>/online/
cougaar.org/doc/<release>/tutorials/
cougaar.org/doc/<release>/src/org/cougaar/... For source viewing

The build distributions would be

cougaar.org/build/<release>/<datetime>
cougaar.org/build/<release>/latest

Currently <release> is one of 11.4, 12.4, and HEAD.