This is just a quick maintenance release before the work on 0.9 starts.

Changes in 0.8.4

• Connections to WMS backend are no longer reused, to avoid opening too many files
• JCS removed (EHCache may be introduced in the future)

Thanks to aaime and jblaney for figuring out the bug.

Looking ahead to 0.9.x

• Marius (Google Summer of Code student) is well on his way to creating a RESTful configuration interface. (No word on whether there will be time to make a nice JavaScript? GUI though. Any help would be welcome). The system uses XStream and Restlet.org and supports XML, JSON and HTML.
• The .properties files will be dropped in favor of an XML file.
• I have done some simple benchmarks on directory traversal and there will probably be a new file based backend. It seems that the current filecache is too deep and that it is better to have many files inside a directory. This reduces node lookups and most filesystems use a btree.
• Ability to support arbitrary projections. No time has been allocated for this, but with the new configuration interface it will be easier to support regular WMS-C and thereby make it easier to use GeoWebCache layers in OpenLayers? etc.