Blaise 4.8.1

Posted October 6th, 2008 by Roger Linssen

October 3, 2008

We have finally released Blaise 4.8.1, months after we planned to.
There was a lot of pressure on this release, both from Statistics Netherlands and from some of our external customers. We decided we would release a final version only after we had a good feeling about the release ourselves.
The last few months, we have been working on getting the internet part stable, which was not easy at all. We got help from Microsoft, sending them crash dumps, and receiving detailed analysis back. We finally managed to sort-of solve the crashes, by keeping components in memory, which also speeds up things :)
I am convinced that we haven't solved the real problem yet, but all stress tests indicate that the system is stable now.

Our FTP server is very slow at the moment, we are about to be 'virtualized', our internal network is failing regularly, so we couldn't pick a better moment than this to release 4.8.1

So here goes nothing!