WebSync 3.3 Released!

Hey everyone!

It's that time again - time for a new WebSync release! Today we're proud to release WebSync 3.3!

In this release you'll find a number of bug fixes (of course), some great features, and some pretty nice performance improvements, especially for those of you looking at Azure. Here are the highlights:

• Full support for "batching" client requests, using the new client.startBatch() and client.endBatch() methods
• Client data binding! (More on this below)
• Automatic reconnection management via the new "stayConnected" flag
• Massively updated documentation (http://docs.frozenmountain.com/)
• New demos included in the downloads, including a fully functional stock ticker demo and a chat demo with multiple users and .NET authentication
• Enhanced callback parameters to automatically include timestamps, extension data, and much more
• Greatly improved performance during the initialization of WebSync
• Method chaining support (client.connect(...).bind(...).subscribe(...))
• Automatic management of the 2-connection limit through the use of simple wildcarding in your request URL

In addition, WebSync On-Demand users will see a nice performance boost due to better caching, as well as getting automatic wildcard support for connection limit management - just update your script tags to point to v=3.3.0.

For full details on all the changes, check out the changelog.

New - Client Data Binding!

With the release of WebSync 3.3, we've added a great new feature - data binding. With this feature, you can bind custom records to your clients so you don't have to manually track client IDs.

The most common use case is binding usernames. Previously, you needed to track a client ID => username mapping, which was a lot of extra unnecessary overhead. Now, you can simply bind the username to the client after they connect, and from then on, when you have access to the client ID, you have access to the bound username as well.

There are plenty of examples available in our online documentation for WebSync Server and for WebSync On-Demand.

How to Update

For those of you updating your WebSync Server installation, simply browse to your purchase history page in the portal and download the latest version.

For those of you updating your WebSync On-Demand page, you can point your script tags to http://sync3.frozenmountain.com/client.js?v=3.3.0 to get the latest and greatest.

Happy Coding!