FramerD 2.2 is now available as an official release. Enhancements in FramerD 2.2 include:

• substantially improved memory performance
• optimized set/choice operations permitting log or linear time operations in most cases
• robust and efficient utilization of multiple processors on SMP (symmetric multi processing) architectures
• better integration with Apache for dynamic generation of web pages with the fdcgi and fdxml executables
• improved mime parsing with handling of Unicode data in headers
• plugin architectures for adding new kinds of pools and indices
• extended subjob and networking socket support (subjob support remains incomplete under WIN32)
• builtin MIME, XML, and HTML parsers for dealing with external textual data
• extension of character operations to full Unicode and provisions for interpreting compound Unicode characters

The released version of FramerD 2.2 can be downloaded from http://www.framerd.org/. Bug reports are welcomed at bug-framerd@framerd.org and a discussion among interested users is hosted at discuss-framerd@framerd.org. Announcements of major releases are available through info-framerd@framerd.org. You may subscribe to these mailing lists from the FramerD web site or by sending email to minordomo@framerd.org with the subject line `subscribe mlist' (e.g. `subscribe discuss-framerd').

Unlike FramerD 2.0, FramerD 2.2 is released under the GNU LGPL (Lesser/Library General Public License) Version 2 which permits the building of non-GPL applications using FramerD. Binary releases are currently available only for Linux x86 and Win32, though it has successfuly compiled and run its test suites on a variety of platforms. Sources for compilation are, of course, available from the download site.