As the development of the next release of OpenAvanti nears completion, its important for us to disclose the fact that this new release will not be backward compatible with previous versions of OpenAvanti. This means that any application written with OpenAvanti will need to be re-engineered to conform to the new library. And there are quite a few changes to make, as the MVC architecture in OpenAvanti has been heavily rewritten.

In this new release, OpenAvanti has evolved into a more robust and featured filled framework, and in order to accomplish the goals of this next release without dirtying the code base, the determination was made that the previous architecture, especially in regards to MVC, would be disregarded to move the framework forwarded.

It is possible to continue developing legacy applications with older versions of OpenAvanti, but we strongly recommend reading through the new tutorials and documentation and using this version for new applications.

This new version will be available as a public beta in the coming weeks, as well as subsequent beta releases after that, eventually culminating in a stable 1.5 release.