With today’s release announcement for Orbited 0.6.0, Orbited is now officially Beta software.

From the start, the 0.6.0 branch has been exclusively about increasing the stability and reliability of existing features over adding new features. In particular, we’ve stress tested against all of the memory leaks and performance issues that are often associated with Comet development. In addition, we’ve adopted Dojo’s DOH test framework for automated browser-side testing of the Orbited.TCPSocket object. The TCPsocket interface today is very reliable, robust both to browser defects and intermittent networks. After two years of development, Orbited is now considered stable enough for more widespread production deployment.