* Aborting server startup if the user db file is missing or unreadable.

* Upgraded river plugin.
* Upgraded modules. Resolved conflicts.
* Replaced FileLineReader with line-reader.

* Added support for CA chain of trust handling when using htttps.
* Improved error handling and logging when starting up.

* Upgraded lodash, log4js, is-my-json-valid, and morgan.
* Refactoring of test_utils code and the test scripts for better error handling.

* Fixed deprecated lodash calls in node_handler.js.

* Added support and configuration options to allow OSDF to run with SSL encryption.
* Improved behavior of server startup when bind_address or port are misconfigured.

* Fixed bug with contains() under certain node deletion situations. Replaced calls with lodash's includes().
* Updated request, async and elasticsearch libraries.

* Upgraded elasticsearch, deep-diff, and commander libraries.
* Changes for compatibility with node 4.2.1.
* Improved query test script cleanup.

* Upgraded tv4, request and log4js.
* Fixed bug with pagination of query results past page 2.
* New test script for the query functionality.

* Fixed issue with query results pagination.
* Improved OQL parser and compiler to suppport inverted searches.

* Upgraded to latest versions of async, express, request, tv4, commander.
* Added support for a simplified query language, called OQL.
* Additional nodeunit test for OQL parser.

* Upgraded to latest versions of async, express, request, tv4, commander.
* Added support for a simplified query language, called OQL.
* Additional nodeunit test for OQL parser.

* Added linkage.json file detection and usage for imposing controls on the linkages between nodes.
* Additional nodeunit tests for linkage control testing.
* New "test2" namespace added out-of-the-box testing of linkage controls.
* Updates to various dependency node modules.
* Configurable number of workers, or a setting of "auto".
* Output the version of node.js at startup.

* Dropped JSV and replaced with tv4 to provide support for JSON-Schema v4
* Added new route and method for node validation. Only performs validation and reporting of any errors.
* Using salted SHA1 for password hashing/storage.
* Updated tests and test schemas for JSON-Schema v4 support
* Fixed issue with API non-conformance of retrieval of all schemas
* Added utility scripts to generate password hashes and to check for the presence of the couchdb river in elasticsearch
* Improved logging in several areas.

* Updated debian rules file to deal with new dh_installinit usage
* Switched from elastical to the official nodejs elasticsearch library
* Elasticsearch queries with aggregations supported.

* Upgraded modules (express, cradle, elastical, etc) to latest versions
* Some fixes to test suite
* Changes to code to deal with Express 4
* Added configurable CORS support
* Switched from underscore to lowdash
* Improved startup via upstart

* Replaced flow.js with async.js in base code as well as tests
* New test for handling of bad version numbers during node updates
* Improved CORS configurability

* Updated code to deal with changes in node.js 0.10.x
* Updated node modules to latest versions: express, connect, etc...
* Implemented methods to deal with JSON-Schema management (primary and auxiliary schemas)
* New tests to exercise schema management portions of the OSDF API
* Beginning work to integrate grunt

* Debian/Ubuntu package containing utility scripts from bin
* RPM package now depending on the elasticsearch-plugin-river-couchdb while the DEB package executes the ElasticSearch 'plugin' utility for river installation
* Requiring nodejs 0.8 or better
* Fixes for schema creation and deletion
* Fixed issue with retrieving the current node version using the /nodes/ver/# REST method
* API documentation updated and rewritten in markdown
* Improved log rotation of logrotate configs
* Expanded installation documentation

* Initial release.