---
title: Exciting Developments
description: "Dan and I periodically get together to have a look at progress with the project,
and last night was the first chance I had to see the work Dan has been doing
over the past few months towards the first in the 1.1 testing release series.

All I can say is wow! There’s support for translations (thanks to everyone who’s
contributed translations so far over in Launchpad
[https://translations.launchpad.net/xibo]), display groups, overhauled
permissions system, overhauled user login/sessions, and now he’s in the middle
of redesigning the GUI for scheduling (and in fairness I probably missed some
bits too).

Progress is also good on my baby, the cross-platform client for Xibo based on
libavg and written in Python. I’m in deep with the webservice code at the
moment, which is the final step in making it basically functional. We’ll then
need to crack on with getting webpage support in to libavg
[http://xibo.org.uk/2009/05/20/xibo-on-linux-outlaws/]. There’s some really nice
features coming – region layering, transparency (including alpha transparency on
images and video), webcam/firewire camera support, region and layout transitions
and maybe even some basic animation.

Andy Pattenden [http://www.andypattenden.co.uk]  has been busy too building some
 CC licensed backgrounds
[http://www.andypattenden.co.uk/blog/2009/06/03/xibo-templates/]  and other
assorted artwork for the project (watch out for analogue clocks in 1.2!), and 
Jim Packer [http://www.jimpacker.com/]  is busy tidying up the excellent theme
[http://www.jimpacker.com/archives/72]  he made for the website.

There’s a VMWare Appliance for Xibo in the pipeline thanks to Terry Bradford.

There’s also a fair number of bugs [https://launchpad.net/xibo/+milestone/1.0.3] 
 that have surfaced in 1.0.2 so we’re busy working towards a 1.0.3 release for
both server and client in the near future.

And to cap the post off, I see we’ve hit 300 Xibo installs ever (that we know
of). Thanks to you all for your feedback. We read every single email, bug
report, blueprint and forum post – but there’s a mountain to climb and we’re
prioritising boring “under the hood” work at the moment that will mean the
shiney stuff later on will be easier to implement and maintain.

Best wishes

Alex"
---

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# [Exciting Developments](https://xibosignage.com/blog/exciting-developments)

 Written by [Alex](https://xibosignage.com/blog/author/alex) | Jul 14, 2009 11:00:00 PM

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Dan and I periodically get together to have a look at progress with the project, and last night was the first chance I had to see the work Dan has been doing over the past few months towards the first in the 1.1 testing release series.

All I can say is wow! There’s support for translations (thanks to everyone who’s contributed translations so far over in [Launchpad](https://translations.launchpad.net/xibo)), display groups, overhauled permissions system, overhauled user login/sessions, and now he’s in the middle of redesigning the GUI for scheduling (and in fairness I probably missed some bits too).

Progress is also good on my baby, the cross-platform client for Xibo based on libavg and written in Python. I’m in deep with the webservice code at the moment, which is the final step in making it basically functional. We’ll then need to crack on with getting [webpage support in to libavg](http://xibo.org.uk/2009/05/20/xibo-on-linux-outlaws/). There’s some really nice features coming – region layering, transparency (including alpha transparency on images and video), webcam/firewire camera support, region and layout transitions and maybe even some basic animation.

[Andy Pattenden](http://www.andypattenden.co.uk) has been busy too building some [CC licensed backgrounds](http://www.andypattenden.co.uk/blog/2009/06/03/xibo-templates/) and other assorted artwork for the project (watch out for analogue clocks in 1.2!), and [Jim Packer](http://www.jimpacker.com/) is busy tidying up the excellent [theme](http://www.jimpacker.com/archives/72) he made for the website.

There’s a VMWare Appliance for Xibo in the pipeline thanks to Terry Bradford.

There’s also a [fair number of bugs](https://launchpad.net/xibo/+milestone/1.0.3) that have surfaced in 1.0.2 so we’re busy working towards a 1.0.3 release for both server and client in the near future.

And to cap the post off, I see we’ve hit 300 Xibo installs ever (that we know of). Thanks to you all for your feedback. We read every single email, bug report, blueprint and forum post – but there’s a mountain to climb and we’re prioritising boring “under the hood” work at the moment that will mean the shiney stuff later on will be easier to implement and maintain.

Best wishes

Alex

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