Dear all,

we are happy to announce the first release candidate of the IPT. As usual we have an online demo, a war archive & geoserver zip for your local installation and a mac standalone version to play with on your desktop without the need to install anything more:

* online demo http://ipt.gbif.org

* a war archive & geoserver.zip for your own tomcat installation * a mac standalone version incl geoserver http://code.google.com/p/gbif-providertoolkit/downloads/list?can=3

There you will also find the initial version of the user manual which Arnaud Reveillon is currently working on. He will be glad about any feedback you provide to this list and suggestions on what needs more explanations. If you encounter problems, please report them as usual in the issue tracker: http://code.google.com/p/gbif-providertoolkit/issues/list

We are collecting bug fixes for the next release, but will provide snapshot versions for the interested on GBIFs ftp server: ftp://ftp.gbif.org/projects/ipt/downloads/

A Version history and list of fixed bugs for the snapshot is available too: http://code.google.com/p/gbif-providertoolkit/wiki/VersionHistory

best wishes, Markus