[OSM-dev] New Osmosis Release (v0.29)

[Brett Henderson]

Hi All,

I've just released osmosis 0.29.

It has some new features which might interest people:
* Plugin support.  It is now possible to register a plugin which allows 
new tasks to be used within osmosis without requiring a full osmosis 
recompile.
* Lazy string parsing.  For processing xml files, osmosis now leaves 
dates in string format to avoid date parsing and formatting time.  In my 
non-scientific testing it provides approximately a 20% gain in performance.
* Now includes a tar.gz distribution format which avoids the need to 
modify permissions on launch scripts on unix/linux systems (thanks to 
Jochen Topf).
* Launch scripts now utilise improved config files allowing common 
command line options to be defined (eg. register a plugin).
* A windows launch script is now included (thanks to Karl Newman).
* The pgsql schema now more closely aligns to the MySQL production 
schema in table and column naming (thanks to Jochen Topf).

It also has a few bug fixes:
* The pgsql dump file task now escapes '\' characters properly.
* The pgsql tasks now use the correct SRID of 4326 (thanks to Jochen Topf).

Cheers,
Brett