We are very excited to announce that an early-availability release of next generation Lightstreamer is now publicly available for download: Lightstreamer 5.0, codename Colosseo. Lightstreamer includes now full support for WebSockets, the new Web standard from IETF that enables bi-directional, full-duplex communication over the Web. Even if WebSockets are not yet universally supported by browsers and network infrastructure, Lightstreamer is…
A patch release of Lightstreamer 4, codename Duomo, is now generally available for download. Lightstreamer Server v. 4.0.3 build 1513.1.11 contains some fixes that solve potential issues with polling mode. In particular, with previous versions (from 4.0 to 4.0.2) under some circumstances, polling cycles might be more frequent than needed or return less updates than requested. Most…
An update to Lightstreamer software is available for download. Lightstreamer Server v. 4.0.2 contains a fix that solves a potential issue with polling mode and older browsers. Other minor changes to Lightstreamer Server and to some client libraries are included, as explained in the detailed changelog. Our engineering team is currently working hard on the new release of…
A new update to Lightstreamer Server 4.0 is available for download.The new version is 4.0.1 build 1513.1.3. This release fixes a bug introduced with Lightstreamer 4.0 that affects HTTPS connections. Under some circumstances, when very large control requests are sent (usually due to very long item and field names, combined with high numbers of subscriptions) the…
We recently released an update to the latest distribution of Lightstreamer (codename Duomo, which contains Server 4.0 and HTML Client 5.0). Such update, which is available from the usual download page, contains two changes: Lightstreamer Server: fixed the time format in the audit log files (which are used to collect statistics on the number of concurrent…
By Alessandro Alinone (originally published on Comet Daily) More than ten years have passed since the creation of Lightstreamer. Now that Lightstreamer 4.0 is generally available, it is a good moment to look back at what happened in the history of Push/Comet and to share a short analysis of the current trends from Lightstreamer’s perspective. 1996-2000:…
We are very proud to announce that the new version of Lightstreamer, codename Duomo, is now generally available. New Lightstreamer contains many exciting improvements, making it the perfect solution whenever you need to deliver real-time messages through the Internet. Performance has been improved, making Lightstreamer Server even more scalable and faster than before. It is now easier to…
One of the tasks recently completed by the Lightstreamer engineering team has been to provide maximum support for all mobile platforms, so that any mobile app for any device could easily become real-time enabled. The new release of Lightstreamer, codename Duomo, which will be publicly available next week, will contain a lot of exciting new features to extend…
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