Weekly Release

We’ve been working hard on the final push for our public release of Centripetal Retrieve so there isn’t a whole lot in our weekly release to the beta app. We’re shooting for launching out of beta by the end of next week, probably official announcement on the Feb 1, 2010. There were a couple little items that went into our release this week, here they are:

In the Web Application:

• We did a revamp of the Status logs. This allows you to view all the details of the history of a Basecamp Backup job. From the initial configuration of it through all that happens on each run of it. One thing we had in there for out beta was a pretty nasty looking field that would usually drop exception stack traces from the code on errors. That is really a debugging field for internal use, so we took that out of the view that the user gets and replaced it with a more informative message.

In the Core Engine:

• We continue to fix bugs as we find them. There seem to be an unlimited number of permutations of how FTP servers were implemented so as we run more and more jobs we with different FTP servers we uncover more issues with storing to them. This was the bulk of the bug fixes for this round in the engine.

Help Files:

• We added a new help topic on setting up Dropbox and figuring out if you have enough space to store your Basecamp files there. We’ve been trying to add a screencast vide to each help topic to make it a little easier to understand. Here is the video from that How-To:
  
  

 

Stay Tuned for more next week.