<bigwig> version 2.0

• Autoconf/automake is integrated with RPM for more flexible and standardized configuration and installation of the compiler and runtime system.

• A program analysis for checking that programs always generate valid HTML, as described in the paper "Static Validation of Dynamically Generated HTML".

• Advanced caching of dynamically generated Web pages, as described in the paper "Caching of Dynamically Generated HTML".

• Complete rewrite of the runtime system based on a new Apache module (no more CGI) for improved flexibility, scalability, and stability.

• Centralized garbage collection daemon (bigwigd).

• Easier compiler configuration and installation of services.

• To simplify maintenance, the logic-based concurrency control is replaced by a simple locking mechanism.

• Seslets - for easy communication between applets and the Web server.

• New faster runtime representation of dynamic documents.

• Comprehensive manual pages describing the compiler and runtime system usage.

• Schema coercion introduced.

• Powerforms is now a library in <bigwig>.

• New shared data format (serialization).

• Quoted gap names not allowed anymore.

• Improved cookie support.

• A number of bug fixes and minor source-code improvements.