The Velocity developers are pleased to make the second beta release of VelocityTools 2.0 available for download. Downloads are available here: http://velocity.apache.org/download.cgi Major development in VelocityTools 2.0 has been essentially complete for some time, and the focus is on fixing the remaining bugs, completing the documentation, and providing clear migration paths for users of VelocityTools 1.x. Significant new features in 2.0 include very flexible, composable toolbox configuration (via either java, xml, and/or properties), lazy-loading/initialization of tools, the VelocityViewTag for embedding Velocity within JSP, simplified embedding of VelocityTools in other frameworks, an assortment of new and improved tools, and much more. This should be useable as a drop in replacement for Tools 1.4, with a few minor exceptions where things already deprecated earlier in 1.x have been removed. The 2.x series of VelocityTools also requires both Velocity 1.5+ and JDK 1.5+. At this point, the new tool management and configuration facilities are extremely stable and useable. Documentation has continued to improve dramatically and is nearing completion. There are no open or known bugs in this release nor significant changes anticipated before 2.0 final is released. We are very interested in all feedback regarding Tools 2.0, especially regarding backwards compatibility with apps designed for Tools 1.4 or earlier. We aim to enable a smooth, incremental transition for developers and their applications.

[ Category : Apache Velocity ]

Help the Apache Wicket team to determine the future of your Wicket based web application development. We have released our third and hopefully final milestone release of our Java 5 based web framework and are anxious to receive feedback on our use of generics. A significant change from the earlier Wicket 1.4 milestone versions is that Component is no longer generified. This means that Component and most of its subclasses in Wicket do not take a class-level type parameter. Some Component subclasses remain generified, such as Link, Form, FormComponent, ListView, etc. You can read more details regarding these changes here: * http://wicket.apache.org/wicket-14-m3-news.html * http://www.nabble.com/generics-to18083910.html#a18083910 We feel that this might provide a good middle ground between being unable to add typing to IModel on one hand and a proliferation of unneeded typing information on modelless components on the other hand. Your feedback is appreciated! Download Wicket 1.4-m3 now and help us decide whether to tone down, remove or increase the application of Java 5 generics to our API. We have started the discussion on the user mailing list: * http://www.nabble.com/users%2C-please-give-us-your-opinion%3A-what-is-your-take-on-generics-with-Wicket-td17589984.html Eager people click here to download the distribution, others can read further: * http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/wicket/1.4-m3 We thank you for your patience and support. -- The Wicket Team === Apache Wicket === Apache Wicket is a component oriented Java web application framework. With proper mark-up/logic separation, a POJO data model, and a refreshing lack of XML, Apache Wicket makes developing web-apps simple and enjoyable again. Swap the boilerplate, complex debugging and brittle code for powerful, reusable components written with plain Java and HTML. You can find out more about Apache Wicket on our website: * http://wicket.apache.org === This release === The Apache Wicket team is proud to announce the availability of the third milestone release of our first java 1.5 Wicket version: Apache Wicket 1.4-m3. This is the first release with java 1.5 as a minimum. Almost everything has been converted to java 1.5. If you find something missing, please help us and send a message to the dev@ or user@ list. === Migrating from 1.3 === If you are coming from Wicket 1.3, you really want to read our migration guide, found on the wiki: * http://cwiki.apache.org/WICKET/migrate-14.html === Downloading the release === You can download the release from the official Apache mirror system, and you can find it through the following link: * http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/wicket/1.4-m3/ For the Maven and Ivy fans out there: update your pom's to the following, and everything will be downloaded automatically: org.apache.wicket wicket 1.4-m3 Substitute the artifact ID with the projects of your liking to get the other projects. Please note that we don't prescribe a Logging implementation for SLF4J. You need to specify yourself which one you prefer. Read more about SLF4J here: http://slf4j.org === Validating the release === The release has been signed by Martijn Dashorst, your release manager for today. The public key can be found in the KEYS file in the download area. Download the KEYS file only from the Apache website. * http://www.apache.org/dist/wicket/1.4-m3/KEYS Instructions on how to validate the release can be found here: * http://www.apache.org/dev/release-signing.html#check-integrity === Reporting bugs === In case you do encounter a bug, we would appreciate a report in our JIRA: * http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WICKET === The distribution === In the distribution you will find a README. The README contains instructions on how to build from source yourself. You also find a CHANEGELOG-1.4 which contains a list of all things that have been fixed, added and/or removed since the first release in the 1.4 branch.

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The Apache ODE community is proud to announce its latest 1.2 release that includes many new features, improvements and bug fixes. Apache ODE is a WS-BPEL compliant web services orchestration engine. It organizes web services calls following a process description written in the BPEL XML grammar. Another way to describe it would be a web-service capable workflow engine. Highlights of this release: * External variables: variables used in a process are not opaque to the outside world anymore. You can map them to a simple database table and manipulate them directly. * Support for the WSDL HTTP binding. We've also added a few extensions, allowing the invocation of REST-style web services. * Advanced endpoint configuration which, thanks to the integration with Apache Axis2, enables WS-Security and WS-RM support. * A long list of small fixes and improvements for best-of-breed stability, performance and usability. In addition to these new features, Apache ODE provides the following functionalities: * Side-by-side support for both the WS-BPEL 2.0 OASIS standard and the legacy BPEL4WS 1.1 vendor specification. * Supports 2 communication layers: one based on Axis2 (Web Services http transport) and another one based on the JBI standard (using ServiceMix). * High level API to the engine that allows you to integrate the core with virtually any communication layer. * Hot-deployment of your processes. * Compiled approach to BPEL that provides detailed analysis and validation at the command line or at deployment. * Management interface for processes, instances and messages. For more information, check the Apache ODE website: http://ode.apache.org/. Apache ODE is an open source project released under a business-friendly license (Apache License v2.0), as such we welcome all your help and contributions. To participate and get involved, our mailing lists are the best resources to start from: http://ode.apache.org/mailing-lists.html...

[ Category : Apache ODE ]

The Apache Ant Team is proud to announce that version 1.7.1 has been released and is available as source[1] and binary[2] archives now. Ant 1.7.1 is mostly a bug fix release which addresses numerous issues found in Ant 1.7.0 released in December 2006. Several smaller optimizations should lead to an improved performance when compared to Ant 1.7.0. In addition Java6 support has been extended and JavaFX is now supported by the "script" task. The Apache Ant Development Team PS: please note that it may take a few hours until the new release is available from your preferred mirrors site. [1] http://ant.apache.org/srcdownload.cgi [2] http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi

[ Category : Apache Ant ]

The Apache MINA project is pleased to announce the release of MINA 2.0.0-M2. Apache MINA is a network application framework which helps users develop high performance and high scalability network applications easily. It provides an abstract, event-driven, asynchronous API over various transports such as TCP/IP and UDP/IP via Java NIO. The latest release is now available here: http://mina.apache.org/downloads.html A list of all the resolved issues for this this release is available here : https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&pid=10670&fixfor=12312861 This is a milestone release and is not yet considered suitable for production use. This release improve the code structure, documentation and provide a large number of bug fix since 2.0.0-M1. We want to thanks all the developers who started using the 2.0 MINA branch and provided a lot of useful feedback for building this release. Thanks, Apache MINA PMC

[ Category : Apache MINA ]

The Apache HttpComponents project is pleased to announce the release of HttpComponents HttpCore 4.0-beta2. This release adds a number of improvements to the NIO components, most notable being improved asynchronous client side and server side protocol handlers. There has been a number of important bug fixes in HttpCore NIO module, whereas HttpCore base module has had very few changes. All upstream projects dependent on HttpCore NIO are strongly advised to upgrade. The focus of the development efforts is now gradually shifting towards providing better test coverage, documentation and performance optimizations. Download - http://hc.apache.org/downloads.cgi Release notes - http://www.apache.org/dist/httpcomponents/httpcore/RELEASE_NOTES.txt HttpComponents site - http://hc.apache.org/

[ Category : Apache HttpComponents ]

The Apache POI team is pleased to announce the availability of Apache POI 3.1-FINAL. Apache POI is well-known in the Java field as a library for reading and writing OLE2 office file formats, such as Excel, PowerPoint, Visio and Word. See http://poi.apache.org Release Highlights: POI-HSSF - Java API To Access Microsoft Excel Format Files * Major improvements in formula evaluation * Support for conditional formatting * Support for Excel hyperlinks * Handling of embedded OLE2 documents * Support for getting excel cell comments when extracting text * Support for specifying a policy to HSSF on missing / blank cells when fetching POI-HSLF - Java API To Access Microsoft PowerPoint Format Files * Support for getting embedded sounds * Support for getting embedded OLE objects * Support for Tables * Improved text extraction * Export PowerPoint slides into image * Java2D Graphics driver POI-HWPF - Java API To Access Microsoft Word Format Files * Handling of embedded OLE2 documents * Support for extracting Escher images from HWPF files * Improved Range.replaceText() About 100 other fixes and improvements. A full list of changes is available in the change log: http://poi.apache.org/changes.html The source and binaries can be downloaded from your local mirror: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/poi/release/ The release is also available from the central Maven repository under Group ID "org.apache.poi" and Version "3.1-FINAL". Apache POI Team

[ Category : Apache POI ]

maintenance release: Apache Wicket 1.3.4. A lot of bugs have been squashed and several improvements implemented. Two noteworthy bugs have been squashed: - cross session leakage due to a dangling thread local in exceptional circumstances - memory leak in localizer (WICKET-1667) It is therefore recommended you update to Wicket 1.3.4 at your earliest convenience. Eager people click here to download the distribution, others can read further: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/wicket/1.3.4 We thank you for your patience and support. - The Wicket Team Apache Wicket Apache Wicket is a component oriented Java web application framework. With proper mark-up/logic separation, a POJO data model, and a refreshing lack of XML, Apache Wicket makes developing web-apps simple and enjoyable again. Swap the boilerplate, complex debugging and brittle code for powerful, reusable components written with plain Java and HTML. You can find out more about Apache Wicket on our website: http://wicket.apache.org This release This release is the fourth maintenance release for the Wicket 1.3 product. This release fixes several bugs and adds some minor improvements. You can find out about the changes at the bottom of this announcement. Migrating from 1.2 If you are coming from Wicket 1.2, you really want to read our migration guide, found on the wiki: http://cwiki.apache.org/WICKET/migrate-13.html Downloading the release You can download the release from the official Apache mirror system, and you can find it through the following link: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/wicket/1.3.4/ For the Maven and Ivy fans out there: update your pom's to the following, and everything will be downloaded automatically: org.apache.wicket wicket 1.3.4 Substitute the artifact ID with the projects of your liking to get the other projects. Please note that we don't prescribe a Logging implementation for SLF4J. You need to specify yourself which one you prefer. Read more about SLF4J here: http://slf4j.org Validating the release The release has been signed by Martijn Dashorst, your release manager for today. The public key can be found in the KEYS file in the download area. Download the KEYS file only from the Apache website. http://www.apache.org/dist/wicket/1.3.4/KEYS Instructions on how to validate the release can be found here: http://www.apache.org/dev/release-signing.html#check-integrity Reporting bugs In case you do encounter a bug, we would appreciate a report in our JIRA: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WICKET The distribution In the distribution you will find a README. The README contains instructions on how to build from source yourself. You also find a CHANEGELOG-1.3 which contains a list of all things that have been fixed, added and/or removed since Wicket 1.3.0. Release Notes - Wicket - Version 1.3.4 ** Bug * [WICKET-613] - Prototype scoped Spring beans * [WICKET-1152] - MetaDataRoleAuthorizationStrategy.unauthorize() doesn't work * [WICKET-1292] - WicketTester continueToOriginalDestination() uses application home page instead of original redictor * [WICKET-1366] - "ava.lang.IllegalStateException: No Page found for component" when collapsing nodes in a LinkTree * [WICKET-1418] - org.apache.wicket.MarkupContainer swallows AbortException * [WICKET-1453] - WicketServlet does not set content type on fallback() * [WICKET-1473] - BaseWicketTester.isComponentOnAjaxResponse() test is too strong * [WICKET-1476] - Referencing Page may cause StackOverflowError * [WICKET-1499] - AjaxEditableMultiLineLabel + race condition / * [WICKET-1501] - MarkupCache.putIntoCache doesn't behave correctly!! * [WICKET-1504] - AutoCompleteTextField - javascript error "type mismatch" in line 227 in IE * [WICKET-1507] - MarkupCache style/variation/locale support broken * [WICKET-1510] - FormDispatcherRequest creates invalid parameter map * [WICKET-1521] - ClassCastException in MixedUrlCodingStrategy * [WICKET-1527] - WicketTester can not deal with null values in page parameters * [WICKET-1536] - Enclosure permanently hides direct children after it has been itself hidden once * [WICKET-1537] - SelectOption generates non xhtml compliant markup * [WICKET-1541] - PopupSettings' windowName fixes for IE * [WICKET-1544] - Update Javadoc for AbstractValidator * [WICKET-1547] - Add getterfor IPageable to PagingNavigation * [WICKET-1548] - PagingNavigator calls factory methods from constructor * [WICKET-1549] - Memory leak with PropertyResolver (in running test suites) * [WICKET-1551] - javascript status variable hides the window.status variable because it is not declared as a far in wicket-ajax.js * [WICKET-1556] - Non-existant package resources lazily added to pool * [WICKET-1558] - WicketTester.startPage(page) throws "No requestCycle is currently set" * [WICKET-1560] - MarkupFragmentFinder fails on transparent resolvers within Repeaters * [WICKET-1569] - AjaxButton break form data when IRequestSettings.#getResponseRequestEncoding is not UTF-8. * [WICKET-1570] - We should mark session dirty when at least one page is touched * [WICKET-1575] - AjaxEventBehavior does not check for component.isEnableAllowed before adding the ajax event to the tag * [WICKET-1598] - Typos in JavaDoc of IMarkupResourceStreamProvider.java * [WICKET-1607] - addDomReadyEvent unreliable for Safari * [WICKET-1626] - Typo in src/main/java/org/apache/wicket/protocol/http/WebApplication.java * [WICKET-1632] - IE bug causes wicket problems when id auto generation is active * [WICKET-1635] - Stripping javascript comments and whitespace breaks application when using prototype library * [WICKET-1645] - Syntactic errors in the manifest OSGi headers * [WICKET-1646] - AjaxFormComponentUpdatingBehavior not working correctly when using IE 7 * [WICKET-1649] - Manifests use incorrect Dynamic-ImportPackage header * [WICKET-1658] - WicketTester#clickLink doesn't update lastRenderedPage * [WICKET-1659] - Prolem with 'mouseactive' in wicket-autocomplete.js when AutoCompleteBehaviour is added (twice) during Ajax roundtrip * [WICKET-1667] - Memory leak in Localizer * [WICKET-1669] - TimeFrame.equals(Object) does not work as expected * [WICKET-1670] - Time.valueOf() does not clear miliseconds * [WICKET-1682] - HtmlHandler can't handle tags not requiring closed tags if the tag names are uppercase * [WICKET-1697] - Bad caching in tag for the same key in same markup structure * [WICKET-1701] - org.apache.wicket.markup.html.CompressedPackageResource$CompressingResourceStream.cache needs to avoid being serialized * [WICKET-1704] - ResourceStreamRequestTarget.configure set wrong ContentLength for non-ascii characters * [WICKET-1705] - GuiceComponentInjector mishandles static fields * [WICKET-1706] - org.apache.wicket.util.lang.Objects.convertValue returns null if it cannot convert the value ** Improvement * [WICKET-1492] - Allow form to specify prefix for formcomponent names * [WICKET-1524] - Disable javadoc plugin in regular build to make it faster * [WICKET-1590] - AjaxEditableChoiceLabel ignores ChoiceRenderer in newLabel(...) * [WICKET-1592] - html.form.Form object should have method to obtain all FormValidator objects associated with * [WICKET-1595] - AutoCompleteTextField: Scrolling down the Choice Menu Only When the Bottom of the Menu Is Reached * [WICKET-1608] - make AutoCompleteBehavior's configuration more flexible * [WICKET-1618] - Localizer API should be enhanced so that the cache implementation can be overwritten * [WICKET-1668] - Application_es.properties (added translations) * [WICKET-1708] - Allow the module init parameter to contain multiple class names * [WICKET-1709] - Allow configuration of the guice Stage for GuiceWebApplicationFactory * [WICKET-1711] - Improve Locale fallback in BundleStringResourceLoader ** New Feature * [WICKET-1322] - NormalUrlCodingStrategy: It does not append / to the end of the url before the parameters * [WICKET-1428] - AutoLinkResolver and Parent-Relative (../) Links * [WICKET-1609] - add RedirectToExternalException * [WICKET-1641] - provide OSGi metadata ** Wish * [WICKET-1562] - Autocomplete should display the selection list even if the input field is empty

[ Category : Apache Wicket ]

The Apache Software Foundation and the Apache HTTP Server Project are pleased to announce the release of version 2.2.9 of the Apache HTTP Server ("Apache"). This version of Apache is principally a bug and security fix release. The following potential security flaws are addressed:

• CVE-2008-2364 (cve.mitre.org) -- mod_proxy_http: Better handling of excessive interim responses from origin server to prevent potential denial of service and high memory usage. Reported by Ryujiro Shibuya.
• CVE-2007-6420 (cve.mitre.org) -- mod_proxy_balancer: Prevent CSRF attacks against the balancer-manager interface.

We consider this release to be the best version of Apache available, and encourage users of all prior versions to upgrade.

Apache HTTP Server 2.2.9 is available for download from:

http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi

Apache 2.2 offers numerous enhancements, improvements, and performance boosts over the 2.0 codebase. For an overview of new features introduced since 2.0 please see:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/new_features_2_2.html

Please see the CHANGES_2.2 file, linked from the download page, for a full list of changes. A condensed list, CHANGES_2.2.9 provides the complete list of changes since 2.2.8. A summary of security vulnerabilities which were addressed in the previous 2.2.8 and earlier releases is available:

http://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_22.html

Apache HTTP Server 1.3.41 and 2.0.63 legacy releases are also currently available. See the appropriate CHANGES from the url above. See the corresponding CHANGES files linked from the download page. The Apache HTTP Project developers strongly encourage all users to migrate to Apache 2.2, as only limited maintenance is performed on these legacy versions.

This release includes the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) version 1.3.0 bundled with the tar and zip distributions. The APR libraries libapr and libaprutil (and on Win32, libapriconv) must all be updated to ensure binary compatibility and address many known platform bugs.

This release builds on and extends the Apache 2.0 API. Modules written for Apache 2.0 will need to be recompiled in order to run with Apache 2.2, and require minimal or no source code changes.

http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/branches/2.2.x/VERSIONING

When upgrading or installing this version of Apache, please bear in mind that if you intend to use Apache with one of the threaded MPMs (other than the Prefork MPM), you must ensure that any modules you will be using (and the libraries they depend on) are thread-safe.

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-- The Apache HTTP Server Project

[ Category : Apache HTTP ]

The Apache JMeter team is pleased to announce the release of Apache JMeter 2.3.2 final.

Apache JMeter is a Java application designed to test server applications. It can be used to:

• generate test loads
• test functional behaviour
• measure performance.

It includes support for protocols such as HTTP(S), JDBC, JMS, FTP, and others. It can also be extended with user-written code.

See http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/

The release can be downloaded from:

http://jakarta.apache.org/site/downloads/downloads_jmeter.cgi

Only the binary archive is needed to run JMeter - there is no need to download the source archive.

However there are some optional libraries which are not included. See the "Getting Started" page for details: http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/usermanual/get-started.html

The list of changes can be found at: http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/changes.html

All users are recommended to upgrade to this release.

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-- The Apache JMeter team

[ Category : Apache Jakarta ]

The Apache Rampart Team has released the version 1.4 of Apache Rampart

Apache Rampart 1.4 is a toolkit that provides implementations of the WS-Sec specifications for Apache Axis2 1.4, based on Apache WSS4J 1.5.4 and the Apache AXIOM-DOOM 1.2.7 implementations.

You can download the releases from: http://ws.apache.org/rampart/download/1.4/download.cgi

There are two main Apache Axis2 modules provided with this release.

• rampart-1.4.mar -- This provides support for WS-Security and WS-SecureConversation features.
• rahas-1.4.mar -- This module provides the necessary components to enable SecurityTokenService functionality on a service.

Apache Rampart 1.4 uses a configuration model based on WS-Policy and WS-Security Policy. It is important to note that the Apache Rampart 1.0 style configuration is also available even though being marked as deprecated.

Apache Rampart 1.4 can be successfully used with the next Apache Sandesha2 release targeted towards Apache Axis2 1.4 to configure WS-SecureConversation + WS-ReliableMessaging scenarios.

The rampart module was successfully tested for interoperability with other WS-Security implementations.

WS - Sec specifications supported by Apache Rampart are as follows:

• WS - Security 1.0 / 1.1
• WS - Secure Conversation - February 2005
• WS - Security Policy - 1.1 - July 2005
• WS - Security Policy - 1.2 - EXPERIMENTAL
• WS - Trust - February 2005
• WS - Trust - WS-SX spec - EXPERIMENTAL

New features in Apache Rampart 1.4

• WS Security 1.1
  • Encrypted headers
  • Encrypted SHA1 references
• WS Security Policy 1.2 support
  • WS Trust
  • Renew binding
  • Validation binding
• New configuration options
  • Ability to plug in Custom policy validators
  • Ability to define certificate alias different from username for signature
  • Ability turn off mili second precision
• Ability to secure SOAP faults
• Increased interoparability with WCF 3.5

Thank you for using Apache Rampart.

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-- The Apache Rampart team

[ Category : Apache WebServices ]

The Apache XML Graphics team is pleased to announce a new release of Apache XML Graphics Commons.

Apache XML Graphics Commons is a library that consists of several reusable components used by Apache Batik and Apache FOP. Many of these components can easily be used separately outside the domains of SVG and XSL-FO.

This release is mostly a bugfix release for the image loading framework that has been introduced in version 1.3.

For a detailed list of changes, see http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/commons/changes.html

Source and binary distributions can be downloaded from the corresponding directories in an Apache Software Foundation mirror at: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/xmlgraphics/commons. See also the download page: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/commons/download.html

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-- The Apache XML Graphics Project Team

[ Category : Apache XML Graphics ]

The Apache Tuscany team is pleased to announce the 1.2.1 release of the Java SCA project.

Apache Tuscany provides a runtime environment based on the Service Component Architecture (SCA). SCA is a set of specifications aimed at simplifying SOA application development. These specifications are being standardized by OASIS as part of the Open Composite Services Architecture (Open CSA).

This 1.2.1 release is a maintenance release over the 1.2 release, see the RELEASE_NOTES and CHANGES file for details, and to download the distributions please go to:

http://incubator.apache.org/tuscany/sca-java-releases.html

To find out more about OASIS Open CSA go to:

http://www.oasis-opencsa.org

Apache Tuscany welcomes your help. Any contribution, including code, testing, contributions to the documentation, or bug reporting is always appreciated. For more information on how to get involved in Apache Tuscany visit the website at:

http://incubator.apache.org/tuscany

Thank you for your interest in Apache Tuscany

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-- The Apache Tuscany Team

[ Category : Apache Incubator ]

The Apache Software Foundation and the Apache Portable Runtime Project are proud to announce the General Availability of version 1.3.0 of the APR Apache Portable Runtime library.

The Project further announces the General Availability of APR-util version 1.3.0, the companion Apache Portable Utility library. The original APR-iconv version 1.2.1 release, an alternative portable implementation of the 'iconv' library, remains current.

APR is available for download from:

• http://apr.apache.org/download.cgi

This version of APR is principally a bug fix release, including fixes for specific platforms' configuration, feature detection, and run time behavior. Most developers are encouraged to adopt the latest APR 1.x version to ensure the most comprehensive support and access to the latest features and enhancements.

The mission of the Apache Portable Runtime Project is to create and maintain software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface to underlying platform-specific implementations. The primary goal is to provide an API to which software developers may code and be assured of predictable if not identical behavior regardless of the platform on which their software is built, relieving them of the need to code special-case conditions to work around or take advantage of platform-specific deficiencies or features.

APR and its companion libraries are implemented entirely in C and provide a common programming interface across a wide variety of operating system platforms without sacrificing performance.

Currently supported platforms include:

• UNIX variants
• Windows
• Netware
• Mac OS X
• OS/2

To give a brief overview, the primary core subsystems of APR 1.3 include the following:

• Atomic operations
• Dynamic Shared Object loading
• File I/O
• Locks (mutexes, condition variables, etc)
• Memory management (high performance allocators)
• Memory-mapped files
• Multicast Sockets
• Network I/O
• Shared memory
• Thread and Process management
• Various data structures (tables, hashes, priority queues, etc)

For a more complete list, please refer to the following URLs:

• http://apr.apache.org/docs/apr/modules.html
• http://apr.apache.org/docs/apr-util/modules.html

Users of APR 0.9 should be aware that migrating to the APR 1.x programming interfaces may require some adjustments; APR 1.x is neither source nor binary compatible with earlier APR 0.9 releases Users of APR 1.x can expect consistent interfaces and binary backwards compatibility throughout the entire APR 1.x release cycle, as defined in our versioning rules:

• http://apr.apache.org/versioning.html

APR is already used extensively by the Apache HTTP Server version 2 and the Subversion revision control system, to name but a few. We list all known projects using APR at http://apr.apache.org/projects.html -- so please let us know if you find our libraries useful in your own projects.

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-- The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) Project Team

[ Category : Apache APR ]

Help the Apache Wicket team to determine the future of your Wicket based web application development. We have released our second milestone release of our Java 5 based web framework and are anxious to receive feedback on our use of generics. Download Wicket 1.4-m2 now and help us decide whether to tone down, remove or increase the application of Java 5 generics to our API. We have started the discussion on the user mailing list:

http://www.nabble.com/users%2C-please-give-us-your-opinion%3A-what-is-your-take-on-generics-with-Wicket-td17589984.html

Eager people click here to download the distribution, others can read further:

http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/wicket/1.4-m2

We thank you for your patience and support.

---- The Apache Wicket Team

=== Apache Wicket ===

Apache Wicket is a component oriented Java web application framework. With proper mark-up/logic separation, a POJO data model, and a refreshing lack of XML, Apache Wicket makes developing web-apps simple and enjoyable again. Swap the boilerplate, complex debugging and brittle code for powerful, reusable components written with plain Java and HTML.

You can find out more about Apache Wicket on our website:

http://wicket.apache.org

=== This release ===

The Apache Wicket team is proud to announce the availability of the first milestone release of our first java 1.5 Wicket version: Apache Wicket 1.4-m2. This is the first release with java 1.5 as a minimum. Not everything has been converted to java 1.5 yet but we are getting there.

=== Migrating from 1.3 ===

If you are coming from Wicket 1.3, you really want to read our migration guide, found on the wiki:

http://cwiki.apache.org/WICKET/migrate-14.html

=== Downloading the release ===

You can download the release from the official Apache mirror system, and you can find it through the following link:

http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/wicket/1.4-m2/

For the Maven and Ivy fans out there: update your pom's to the following, and everything will be downloaded automatically:

org.apache.wicket wicket 1.4-m2

Substitute the artifact ID with the projects of your liking to get the other projects.

Please note that we don't prescribe a Logging implementation for SLF4J. You need to specify yourself which one you prefer. Read more about SLF4J here:

http://slf4j.org

=== Validating the release ===

The release has been signed by Frank Bille, your release manager for today. The public key can be found in the KEYS file in the download area. Download the KEYS file only from the Apache website.

http://www.apache.org/dist/wicket/1.4-m2/KEYS

Instructions on how to validate the release can be found here:

http://www.apache.org/dev/release-signing.html#check-integrity

=== Reporting bugs ===

In case you do encounter a bug, we would appreciate a report in our JIRA:

http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WICKET

=== The distribution ===

In the distribution you will find a README. The README contains instructions on how to build from source yourself. You also find a CHANEGELOG-1.4 which contains a list of all things that have been fixed, added and/or removed since the first release in the 1.4 branch.

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The Apache POI team is pleased to announce the release of 3.1 BETA2 which is one of the final steps before 3.1 FINAL.

Apache POI is well-known in the Java field as a library for reading and writing OLE2 office file formats, such as Excel, PowerPoint, Visio and Word.

The status of this release is a beta, meaning that we encourage users to try it out. If you find any bugs, please report them to the POI bug database or to the poi-dev mailing list.

Summary of changes since 3.1-beta1:

• fix44306 - fixed reading/writing of AttrPtg(type=choose) and method toFormulaString() for CHOOSE formulas(POI-DEVELOPERS)
• fix24207 - added HSSFName.isDeleted() to check if the name points to cell that no longer exists(POI-DEVELOPERS)
• fix40414 - fixed selected/active sheet after removing sheet from workbook(POI-DEVELOPERS)
• fix44523 - fixed workbook sheet selection and focus(POI-DEVELOPERS)
• fix45000 - Fixed NPE in ListLevel when numberText is null(POI-DEVELOPERS)
• fix44985 - Properly update TextSpecInfoAtom when the parent text is changed(POI-DEVELOPERS)
• fix41187 - fixed HSSFSheet to properly read xls files without ROW records(POI-DEVELOPERS)
• fix44950 - fixed HSSFFormulaEvaluator.evaluateInCell() and Area3DEval.getValue() also added validation for number of elements in AreaEvals(POI-DEVELOPERS)
• fix42570 - fixed LabelRecord to use empty string instead of null when the length is zero.(POI-DEVELOPERS)
• fix42564 - fixed ArrayPtg to use ConstantValueParser. Fixed a few other ArrayPtg encoding issues.(POI-DEVELOPERS)
• fixFollow-on from 28754 - StringPtg.toFormulaString() should escape double quotes(POI-DEVELOPERS)
• fix44929 - Improved error handling in HSSFWorkbook when attempting to read a BIFF5 file(POI-DEVELOPERS)
• fix44675 - Parameter operand classes (function metadata) required to encode SUM() etc properly. Added parse validation for number of parameters(POI-DEVELOPERS)
• fix44921 - allow Ptg.writeBytes() to be called on relative ref Ptgs (RefN* and AreaN*)(POI-DEVELOPERS)
• fix44914 - Fix/suppress warning message "WARN. Unread n bytes of record 0xNN"(POI-DEVELOPERS)
• fix44892 - made HSSFWorkbook.getSheet(String) case insensitive(POI-DEVELOPERS)
• fix44886 - Correctly process PICT metafile in EscherMetafileBlip(POI-DEVELOPERS)
• fix44893 - Take into account indentation in HSSFSheet.autoSizeColumn(POI-DEVELOPERS)

A full list of changes is available in the change log: http://poi.apache.org/changes.html

The source and binaries can be downloaded from your local mirror: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/poi/dev/

The release is also available from the central Maven repository under Group ID "org.apache.poi" and Version "3.1-beta2".

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We, Apache Qpid Team Members, are exceptionally pleased to announce that Qpid M2.1 is out, loud and proud. This version features AMQP 0-9 support, Access Control Lists and Role Based Access Control, loadable exchanges via OSGi plugins and the usual slew of enhancements, bug fixes and love.

Release notes: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310520&styleName=Html&version=12312720

Known issues: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&&pid=12310520&fixfor=12312720&resolution=-1&sorter/field=priority&sorter/order=DESC

But most importantly, you can get it from: http://www.apache.org/dist/incubator/qpid/M2.1-incubating/

and via maven: http://people.apache.org/repo/m2-incubating-repository

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The Apache Commons project would like to announce the immediate availability of Commons SCXML 0.8.

Commons SCXML provides a Java State Chart XML (W3C Working Draft) engine. Anything that can be represented as a UML state chart -- business process flows, view navigation bits, interaction or dialog management, and many more -- can leverage the Commons SCXML library.

Commons SCXML 0.8 contains a small number of improvements and bug fixes. Details can be found in the release notes:

http://www.apache.org/dist/commons/scxml/RELEASE-NOTES.txt

Commons SCXML is available in either binary or source form from the following downloads page:

http://commons.apache.org/scxml/download_scxml.cgi

For more information on Commons SCXML, visit the project home page:

http://commons.apache.org/scxml/

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The Apache Harmony team are pleased to announce the immediate availability of Apache Harmony 5.0M6.

Apache Harmony is the Java platform project of the Apache Software Foundation.

This is the latest stable build of the Harmony project's implementation of the Java SE specification, and contains numerous enhancements and bug fixes including:

• new JIT optimizations
• functional and coverage enhancements throughout the class libraries
• improved VM threading design
• support for full hardware addressability on 64 bit platforms
• ...and much more

Source code and binary builds are available from the Harmony download site:

http://harmony.apache.org/download.cgi

Apache Harmony welcomes your help. For more information on how to report problems, successes, and to get involved in Apache Harmony visit the project website at http://harmony.apache.org

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The Apache Derby project is pleased to announce an important maintenance release of Derby, 10.3.3.0.

Apache Derby is a subproject of the Apache DB project. Derby is a pure Java relational database engine which conforms to the ISO/ANSI SQL and JDBC standards. Derby aims to be easy for developers and end-users to work with.

IMPORTANT NOTICE:

If you are currently using Derby 10.3.1.4 or Derby 10.3.2.1, it is strongly recommended that you upgrade to Derby 10.4.1.3 or 10.3.3.0 to avoid any chance of database corruption due to an issue with multiple threads accessing a database that is documented in DERBY-3347.

This bug can cause unrecoverable database corruption during periods of heavy, multi-thread I/O operations. The error produced in the test case used to diagnose the problem was:

ERROR XSDB3: Container information cannot change once written: was 0, now 80.

It is felt that other errors might also be generated when this type of corruption occurs. The corruption message will most likely refer to page 0 of the container. For example:

ERROR XSDG1: Page Page(0 ,Container(0, 5856)) could not be written...

This bug corrupts the pages on disk and can go unnoticed. If you do not run database consistency checks regularly it is recommended you begin doing so as soon as possible after the upgrade. To insure that corruption has not already occurred in existing databases, after upgrade run the database consistency check at least once to validate all tables in the database. This proalso check that the previous backup did not also have the corruption.

In some cases one may recover data from the existing database, depending on the extent of the corruption, but will require by hand data recovery. Depending on the type of corruption this may be successful or not. one should consult the Derby list if attempting this recovery - no automatic software solution to this recovery exists.

Version 10.3.3.0 can be downloaded from: http://db.apache.org/derby/releases/release-10.3.3.0.cgi

Version 10.4.1.3 can be downloaded from: http://db.apache.org/derby/releases/release-10.4.1.3.cgi

For help or questions: http://db.apache.org/derby/derby_mail.html

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The Apache Cocoon Community is proud to announce the release of Cocoon 2.2.0. Apache Cocoon is a Spring-based framework (since version 2.2 of Cocoon) built around the concepts of separation of concerns and component-based development. Cocoon implements these concepts around the notion of component pipelines, each component on the pipeline specializing on a particular operation. Cocoon 2.2 introduces the idea of blocks. A block is the unit of modularization in Cocoon, allowing the framework to be built upon. (in comparison: Eclipse uses the term plugins, OSGi uses bundles). Everything that goes beyond what Cocoon provides in its core modules (Spring integration, sitemap and pipeline implementation) is provided as block (see below). Custom Cocoon applications are also developed as blocks. A block can provide the following additional features: * general servlet services (any servlet can be managed by the Cocoon servlet-service framework), * special services that provide pipelines as services, * component services (Spring beans, Avalon services/components), * a container for classes and resources. A block is packaged as a Java archive (jar) following certain conventions concerning the directory structure. To read more information about the new features within Cocoon 2.2.0 please go to: http://cocoon.apache.org/2.2/1420_1_1.html. Alternatively for more information about Apache Cocoon 2.2, please go to, please go to http://cocoon.apache.org or follow our getting started guide at http://cocoon.apache.org/2.2/1159_1_1.html. The release artifacts are available from the central Maven repository (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/) or you can download them from the distribution area (http://cocoon.apache.org/1284_1_1.html). - o - Additionally we are pround to announce some additional releases: SUBPROJECTS ----------- * Cocoon Servlet-Service Framework 1.0.0 The Servlet Service Famework makes it easy to use servlets as components which can communicate with each other. The current implementation is based on Spring 2.5. There are no dependencies on Cocoon core libraries at all. http://cocoon.apache.org/subprojects/servlet-service/1.0/ * Cocoon Configuration 1.0.2 The...

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The Apache UIMA community is pleased to announce the availability of the Apache UIMA base framework release version 2.2.2-incubating. The release is a bugfix release and is available for download on the Apache UIMA website

http://incubator.apache.org/uima/downloads.cgi

The main fixes for the current release are:

• Performance improvements for the capabilityLanguageFlow
• Improvements to the UIMA featurePath evaluation
• Correction of the default result spec computation for analysis engines or aggregate analysis engines.

The complete list of fixes is available in the release notes.

http://incubator.apache.org/uima/downloads/releaseDocs/2.2.2-incubating/RELEASE_NOTES.html

We also updated the UIMA Eclipse update site with the new release artifacts. To update or install the UIMA Eclipse plugins please use the update site below.

http://www.apache.org/dist/incubator/uima/eclipse-update-site

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INCUBATION DISCLAIMER

Apache UIMA is an effort undergoing incubation at The Apache Software Foundation (ASF). Incubation is required of all newly accepted projects until a further review indicates that the infrastructure, communications, and decision making process have stabilized in a manner consistent with other successful ASF projects. While incubation status is not necessarily a reflection of the completeness or stability of the code, it does indicate that the project has yet to be fully endorsed by the ASF.

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The Apache MyFaces team is pleased to announce the release of MyFaces Core 1.2.3.

MyFaces Core is a JavaServer(tm) Faces 1.2 implementation as specified by JSR-252. MyFaces Core has passed Sun's JSR-252 TCK and is 100% compliant with the JSR-252 specification.

MyFaces Core 1.2.3 is available in both binary and source distributions.

* http://myfaces.apache.org/download.html

MyFaces Core is also available in the central Maven repository under Group ID "org.apache.myfaces.core".

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[ Category : Apache MyFaces ]

The HttpComponents project is pleased to announce the release of HttpComponents HttpClient 4.0-alpha4. This release marks the completion of the overhaul of the connection management code in HttpClient. All known shortcomings of the old HttpClient 3.x connection management API have been addressed.

NTLM authentication remains the only missing major feature in the new codeline that prevents us from moving toward the API freeze.

There has been a number of important bug fixes since ALPHA3. All upstream projects are encouraged to upgrade to the latest release.

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Download - http://hc.apache.org/downloads.cgi

Release notes - http://www.apache.org/dist/httpcomponents/httpclient/RELEASE_NOTES.txt

HttpComponents site - http://hc.apache.org/

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[ Category : Apache HttpComponents ]

Apache Axis2/C Team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Axis2/C version 1.4.0 You can download this release from http://ws.apache.org/axis2/c/download.cgi Key Features ------------ 1. Support for one-way messaging (In-Only) and request response messaging (In-Out) 2. Client APIs: Easy to use service client API and more advanced operation client API 3. Transports supported: HTTP * Inbuilt HTTP server called simple axis server * Apache2 httpd module called mod_axis2 for server side * IIS module for server side * Client transport with ability to enable SSL support * Basic HTTP Authentication * Digest HTTP Authentication * libcurl based client transport 4. Transports supported: HTTPS * HTTPS Transport implementation using OpenSSL 5. Transports supported: TCP * for both client and server side 6. Transport proxy support (HTTP) * Proxy Authentication (Basic/Digest) 7. Module architecture, mechanism to extend the SOAP processing model. 8. WS-Addressing support, both the submission (2004/08) and final (2005/08) versions, implemented as a module. 9. MTOM/XOP support. 10. AXIOM, an XML object model optimized for SOAP 1.1/1.2 messages; This has complete XML infoset support. 11. XML parser abstraction * Libxml2 wrapper * Guththila pull parser support 12. Both directory based and archive based deployment models for deploying services and modules 13. Description hierarchy providing access to static data of Axis2/C runtime (configuration, service groups, services, operations and messages) 14. Context hierarchy providing access to dynamic Axis2/C runtime information (corresponding contexts to map to each level of description hierarchy) 15. Message receiver abstraction * Inbuilt raw XML message receiver 16. Code generation tool for stub and skeleton generation for a given WSDL (based on Java tool) * Axis Data Binding (ADB) support 17. REST support (more POX like) using HTTP POST, GET, HEAD, PUT and DELETE * Support for RESTful Services 18. Comprehensive documentation * Axis2/C Manual 19. WS-Policy implementation called...

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The Apache Lucene Project Team has annouced that Apache Lucene Java 2.3.2 is now available.

This release contains fixes for bugs found in 2.3.1. It does not contain any new features, API or file format changes, which makes it fully compatible to 2.3.0 and 2.3.1.

The detailed change log is at: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/java/tags/lucene_2_3_2/CHANGES.txt

Binary and source distributions are available at http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/java/

Lucene artifacts are also available in the Maven2 repository at http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/lucene/

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[ Category : Apache Lucene ]

The Apache C++ Standard Library project (Apache STDCXX) is pleased to announce the release of stdcxx 4.2.1. The distribution can be downloaded from the following location: http://archive.apache.org/dist/stdcxx/

or from the many mirrors listed on this page: http://www.apache.org/mirrors/

For additional details see the stdcxx Download page: http://stdcxx.apache.org/download.html#releases

Apache C++ Standard Library is a complete implementation of the C++ Standard Library conforming to the ISO/IEC 14882:2003 International Standard for the Programming Language C++.

4.2.1 is a "bugfix" release of the library that is source and both backward and forward binary compatible with stdcxx 4.2.0. Programs linked with previous versions of stdcxx 4.x can safely upgrade to 4.2.1 without needing to be recompiled. New programs linked with stdcxx 4.2.1 can be deployed in environments with only stdcxx 4.2.0 installed. Forward compatibility with stdcxx 4.1.x is not guaranteed.

This release of stdcxx supports a number of new platforms (for a full list see the project's README file) and contains many bug fixes and a number of improvements. For a complete list of issues resolved in this release of the project see: http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?fixfor=12312690

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release

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The POI team is pleased to announce the release of 3.1 BETA1 which is one of the final steps before 3.1 FINAL. Apache POI is well-known in the Java field as a library for reading and writing OLE2 office file formats, such as Excel, PowerPoint, Visio and Word. The status of this release is a beta, meaning that we encourage users to try it out. If you find any bugs, please report them to the POI bug database or to the poi-dev mailing list. The release contains a mixture of new features and bug fixes, compared to 3.0.2. The most important changes are: - Major improvements in Excel formula evaluation - Support for conditional formatting in Excel - Handling of embedded OLE2 documents in Excel and PowerPoint - Major improvements in the API for PowerPoint (support for Tables, better handling of text properties, PPT Graphics2D driver) - Export PowerPoint slides into image A full list of changes is available in the change log: http://poi.apache.org/changes.html The source and binaries can be downloaded from your local mirror: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/poi/dev/ The release is also available from the central Maven repository under Group ID "org.apache.poi" and Version "3.1-beta1"....

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The Apache CXF team is proud to announce the availability of the 2.1 release

Apache CXF is an open source services framework. CXF helps you build and develop services using frontend programming APIs, like JAX-WS. These services can speak a variety of protocols such as SOAP, XML/HTTP, RESTful HTTP, or CORBA and work over a variety of transports such as HTTP, JMS or JBI.

CXF includes a broad feature set, but it is primarily focused on the following areas:

• Web Services Standards Support: CXF supports a variety of web service standards including SOAP, the WSI Basic Profile, WSDL, WS-Addressing, WS-Policy, WS-ReliableMessaging, and WS-Security.
• Frontends: CXF supports a variety of "frontend" programming models. CXF provides a JAX-WS 2.1 Compliant frontend. It also includes a "simple frontend" which allows creation of clients and endpoints without annotations. CXF supports both contract first development with WSDL and code first development starting from Java.
• Ease of use: CXF is designed to be intuitive and easy to use. There are simple APIs to quickly build code-first services, Maven plug-ins to make tooling integration easy, JAX-WS API support, Spring 2.0 XML support to make configuration a snap, and much more.

What's new in CXF 2.1:

• JAX-WS 2.1 support - the JAX-WS implementation has been updated to the JAX-WS 2.1 specification level. Code generatation is JAX-WS 2.1/JAXB 2.1 compliant.
• Initial implementation of JAX-RS 0.6 REST based service framework.
• Javascript client generation and support - SOAP based endpoints can have javascript clients created automatically with ?js URL. There is also command line tooling.
• CORBA binding merged from Yoko - JAX-WS Clients/Servers can talk IIOP to allow communication with other CORBA processess. Tooling for IDL -> WSDL, WSDL -> IDL, etc... are there to support this.
• New java2ws tooling to support better "java first" development patterns.
• xmlbeans runtime support to allow using XmlBeans for the data model.
• MANY MANY bugfixes, performance enhancements, etc... Too numerous to list individually.

Finally, the major new "non-code" feature:

• This is our first release after graduating from the incubator as a Top Level Project. Thus, this is a full "non-incubator" release.

As always, we welcome feedback on our mailing lists: http://cxf.apache.org/mailing-lists.html

Downloads are available from: http://cxf.apache.org/download.html

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The Apache Tuscany team are delighted to announce the 1.2 release of the Java SCA project. Apache Tuscany provides a runtime environment based on the Service Component Architecture (SCA). SCA is a set of specifications aimed at simplifying SOA application development. These specifications are being standardized by OASIS as part of the Open Composite Services Architecture (Open CSA). The Tuscany SCA Java 1.2 release adds a number of features including: * An improved SCA distributed domain support with an SCA Domain Manager application * Support for running Tuscany in a OSGI runtime using Apache Felix * Support for JAXWS annotations * improved and simplified JMS binding * Improved support for SCA Policies and a new Policy provider SPI * Support for 'native' Groovy component implementation classes * Atom binding now using Apache Abdera * A new Eclipse plugin providing a Tuscany runtime Library and Tuscany launcher in Eclipse environment. For full details about the release and to download the distributions please go to: http://incubator.apache.org/tuscany/sca-java-releases.html To find out more about OASIS Open CSA go to: http://www.oasis-opencsa.org Apache Tuscany welcomes your help. Any contribution, including code, testing, contributions to the documentation, or bug reporting is always appreciated. For more information on how to get involved in Apache Tuscany visit the website at: http://incubator.apache.org/tuscany Thank you for your interest in Apache Tuscany! ---- -- The Apache Tuscany Team...

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The Apache MINA project team is proud to announce the new minor point releases of Apache MINA, a Java network application framework, version 1.0.10 and 1.1.7.

Apache MINA is a network application framework which helps users develop high performance and high scalability network applications easily by providing an abstract, event-driven, asynchronous API over various transports such as TCP/IP and UDP/IP vis Java NIO.

Please refer to the release note for the changelog: http://tinyurl.com/6hxvec

The Apache MINA project website includes resources such as introductory presentation slides, tutorials, and examples to help you learn MINA as soon as possible.

The Apache MINA project team is always open for your feedback. Please let us know what you think about MINA via our mailing list and support forum: http://mina.apache.org/contact.html

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[ Category : Apache MINA ]

Apache OpenEJB 3.0 is finally released!

This release includes several improvements and refinements over the very successful 3.0 beta 2 release. Dependency injection has had a major boost with support for Java Generics and Enums. A dozen new validations makes it even harder to do something "wrong". JPA users will find it nearly impossible to misconfigure the jta-data-source and non-jta-data-source. More robust EJB references allow for circular and lazy references to ejbs in other ears. Deep levels of annotation inheritance are completely respected, allowing for greater design control and less duplicate code.

Release notes: http://www.apache.org/dist/openejb/3.0/RELEASE-NOTES.txt

Download: http://openejb.apache.org/openejb-30.html

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[ Category : Apache OpenEJB ]

The Apache Directoy Project is pleased to announce the next feature introduction release of ApacheDS. The 1.5.x branch is intended for new feature additions which may potentially destabilize the server. However this is by far still one of the most stable releases we've had. There are several bug fixes and new features that have been incorporated into the 1.5.2 release: Notable Features ---------------------------- o New schema aware ServerEntry API o New improved installers for more platforms o Zero configuration StartTLS and LDAPS o DIT backed server certificate management o ChangeLog service, snapshotting and state rollback o Faster integration tests o Support password hashing for Administrator o Restart no longer needed for Administrator password changes o Support for different Kerberos encryption types with GSSAPI Closed JIRA Issues ------------------------------ Bug DIRSERVER-1149 Removing a non existing value of an attribute removes one of this attribute's values Bug DIRSERVER-1083 Search on an custom attribute added to the dynamic schema fails when no result is found Bug DIRSERVER-1064 Admin password cannot be hashed Bug DIRSERVER-1062 MaxValueCount protectedItem is not working properly for access control Bug DIRSERVER-1055 Reading cn=schema doesn't return all requested attributes Bug DIRSERVER-1047 Concurrency issuses in the nexus partition lead to race conditions with unbind requests on shutdown. Bug DIRSERVER-1026 Metaschema ObjectClass description is incorrect Bug DIRSERVER-990 2 objects of the Apache DS Schema share the same OID Bug DIRSERVER-957 OOM when adding a lot of entries Bug DIRSERVER-915 Hot Partitions Throw Exceptions for Normal JNDI Operations Bug DIRSERVER-871 NPE when running ADS in eclipse from time to time Bug DIRSERVER-782 Restart required after changing password Bug DIRSERVER-646 Replacing an unknown attribute with no values (deletion) causes an error New Feature DIRSERVER-1066 Add change log interceptor as optional interceptor New Feature DIRSERVER-869 Add Start TLS support Test DIRSERVER-1123 Test cases for JdbmNoDupsCursor Task...

[ Category : Apache Directory ]

Finally, it's here and it works with Perl 5.10! http://apache.org/dist/perl/mod_perl-2.0.4.tar.gz http://apache.org/dist/perl/mod_perl-2.0.4.tar.gz.asc (pgp sig) The package is also available on CPAN: file: $CPAN/authors/id/G/GO/GOZER/mod_perl-2.0.4.tar.gz size: 3727717 bytes md5: 1a05625ae6843085f985f5da8214502a sha1: 65299a16ec414a690a48a2bbe63acaa3c6bb897b...

[ Category : Apache Perl ]

The Apache JAMES team is pleased to announce the release of Apache jSPF version 0.9.6. Apache jSPF is a pure Java SPF (Sender Policy Framework) implementation.

Apache jSPF 0.9.6 is fully RFC4408 compliant.

Distributions are available from the download page here: http://james.apache.org/download.cgi

More information on Apache jSPF can be found at the Apache JAMES project site: http://james.apache.org/jspf/index.html

The released packages will be also deployed to the central maven repositories in the next days.

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[ Category : Apache James ]

The Apache Tuscany team are pleased to announce the 1.1-incubating release of the Java SDO project. Service Data Objects (SDO) are designed to simplify and unify the way in which applications handle data. Using SDO, application programmers can uniformly access and manipulate data from heterogeneous data sources, including relational databases, XML data sources, Web services, and enterprise information systems. Tuscany SDO provides an implementation of the SDO 2.1 specification, this 1.1 release includes several new features and improvements over the 1.0 release such as: - the ability to generate SDO test classes using the maven-sdo-plugin - support for custom data binding of DataObjects in a Swing UI - Using the HelperContext for scope in the Tuscany API - improved diagnostics along with many bug fixes. See the RELEASE_NOTES for full details. For more information and to download the SDO 1.1 release please go to: http://incubator.apache.org/tuscany/sdo-java-releases.html Apache Tuscany welcomes your help. Any contribution, including code, testing, improving the documentation, or bug reporting is always appreciated. For more information on how to get involved in Apache Tuscany visit the website at: http://incubator.apache.org/tuscany. Thank you for your interest in Apache Tuscany! The Apache Tuscany Team....

[ Category : Apache Incubator ]

The Apache Maven team would like to announce the availability of Maven 2.0.9.

This release went through a new process that saw 8 release candidates tested by the user community before the final release and we expect it to be more robust than previous versions. There are several important fixes and changes, most notably locking down core plugins in the super pom. You can read details in the release notes linked below.

You can find the binaries here:

http://maven.apache.org/download.html

You can find the release notes here:

http://maven.apache.org/release-notes.html

You can find the roadmap for future issues here:

http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG?report=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project:roadmap-panel

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[ Category : Apache Maven ]

The Apache Archiva team is pleased to announce the release of Archiva 1.0.2

Archiva is a build artifact repository manager for use with build tools such as Maven, Continuum and Ant.

It has features like repository search and browse, securing repositories, identifying unknown artifacts and reporting of repository problems.

Aside from these, it can also act as a nearby (proxy) cache of popular global repositories.

The latest release is now available here:

http://maven.apache.org/archiva/download.html

If you have any questions, please consult:

* The web site: http://maven.apache.org/archiva/

* The archiva-user mailing list: http://maven.apache.org/archiva/mail-lists.html

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[ Category : Apache Maven ]

The Apache Directory Team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Directory Studio 1.1.0, the first major update of its Eclipse based LDAP Browser and Directory client.

You can download Apache Directory Studio 1.1.0 as a standalone RCP application for Mac OS X, Linux and Windows here: http://directory.apache.org/studio/downloads.html

You can also install it directly in Eclipse using this update site: http://directory.apache.org/studio/update/1.x/

Developed as a sub-project of the Directory Top Level Project, Apache Directory Studio is an Eclipse RCP application that takes full advantage of the benefits inherent in the Eclipse platform. Composed of several Eclipse (OSGi) plugins, Apache Directory Studio can be easily upgraded with additional plugins. Apache Directory Studio plugins can even run within a full installation of Eclipse itself.

Apache Directory Studio contains 5 major features:

• an LDAP Browser Plugin
• an LDIF Editor Plugin
• an ACI Editor Plugin for Apache Directory Server
• a Schema Editor Plugin
• an Apache DS Configuration Plugin

For more information about Apache Directory Studio, see our website: http://directory.apache.org/studio

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-- The Apache Directory Team

[ Category : Apache Directory ]

The Apache Wicket team is proud to announce the availability of the third maintenance release: Apache Wicket 1.3.3. A lot of bugs have been squashed and several improvements implemented. PLEASE NOTE: We have fixed a bug related to the order of the rendered links in wicket:head, which might have influence on how your stylesheets are loaded. See WICKET-1487 (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WICKET-1487) for details.

Eager people click here to download the distribution, others can read further:

http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/wicket/1.3.3

We thank you for your patience and support.

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-- The Apache Wicket Team

[ Category : Apache Wicket ]

Version 1.8.0 of Apache Cactus has been released.

For details of new features and fixes, please see the cactus web site.

Download Cactus

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The Apache Incubator CXF team is proud to announce the availability of the 2.0.5 release

Apache CXF is an open source services framework. CXF helps you build and develop services using frontend programming APIs, like JAX-WS. These services can speak a variety of protocols such as SOAP, XML/HTTP, RESTful HTTP, or CORBA and work over a variety of transports such as HTTP, JMS or JBI.

CXF includes a broad feature set, but it is primarily focused on the following areas:

• Web Services Standards Support: CXF supports a variety of web service standards including SOAP, the Basic Profile, WSDL, WS-Addressing, WS-Policy, WS-ReliableMessaging, and WS-Security.
• Frontends: CXF supports a variety of "frontend" programming models. CXF provides a JAX-WS Compliant frontend. It also includes a "simple frontend" which allows creation of clients and endpoints without annotations. CXF supports both contract first development with WSDL and code first development starting from Java.
• Ease of use: CXF is designed to be intuitive and easy to use. There are simple APIs to quickly build code-first services, Maven plug-ins to make tooling integration easy, JAX-WS API support, Spring 2.0 XML support to make configuration a snap, and much more.

This release is mostly a patch release to fix problems and issues (over 30 JIRA items resolved) that users have encountered in the 2.0.4-incubator release.

For more information see:

• Download: http://incubator.apache.org/cxf/download.html
• Website: http://incubator.apache.org/cxf/
• Release Notes: http://incubator.apache.org/cxf/apache-cxf-205-incubating-release-notes.html
• Mailing lists: http://incubator.apache.org/cxf/mailing-lists.html

If you have feedback, questions or would like to get involved in the CXF project please join the mailing lists and let us know your thoughts.

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-- The Apache Incubator CXF Team

[ Category : Apache Incubator ]

Apache Continuum - http://continuum.apache.org/

Apache STDCXX - http://stdcxx.apache.org/

Apache Synapse - http://synapse.apache.org/

Apache Labs - http://labs.apache.org/

[ Category : Apache Continuum ]
[ Category : Apache Labs ]
[ Category : Apache STDCXX ]
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[ Category : Apache Synapse ]

The Apache XML Graphics team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Apache FOP version 0.95beta.

FOP (Formatting Objects Processor) is a print formatter driven by XSL Formatting Objects [1] and an output independent formatter. It is a Java application that reads a formatting object tree and renders the resulting pages to a specified output. Output formats currently supported include PDF, PS, PCL, AFP, Print and PNG.

This beta release will be available for testing for some time, before a stable release is made. Feedback is welcome, and we would like to encourage as many people as possible to try it out and report bugs and issues on the fop-users mailing list [2]. The most important changes introduced by this release are:

• many bug fixes and improvements in tables, better support for keeps and breaks, new features: conditional borders and background on columns and header/footer/body;
• better image handling thanks to the new image loading framework provided by the Apache XML Graphics Commons dependency;
• improvements and bugfixes for font handling and font auto-detection/-registration;
• performance improvements and memory optimizations for the property handling in the FO tree.

Please note that support for Java 1.3 has been dropped. Only one type of binaries is provided now, that will run on 1.4+ JREs.

Other important release notes are available at http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.95/releaseNotes_0.95beta.html

For a more complete list of changes, please visit http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.95/changes_0.95beta.html

For download information, see the following page: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/download.html

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-- The Apache XML Graphics team

[ Category : Apache XML Graphics ]

Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq "MSFT") and Sourcesense, a leading European open source systems integration consultancy, announced that the two companies will collaborate on the strategy, development and deployment of open source solutions for the Microsoft Office product suite. See the Press-Release for more details.

Related: Apache POI - http://poi.apache.org/

[ Category : Apache POI ]

The Apache NMaven team is pleased to announce the release of NMaven 0.15-incubating.

NMaven provides Apache Maven 2.x plugins to support building of .NET applications.

http://incubator.apache.org/nmaven/0.15/

Features for this release include:

1. Compiling C# projects (2.0 framework)
2. Strong Naming
3. Generation of assembly info based on pom metadata
4. Support for Microsoft and Novell/Mono platforms

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-- The Apache NMaven Team

[ Category : Apache Incubator ]
[ Category : Apache Maven ]

The Apache Commons team is pleased to announce the release of version 2.4 of Commons Lang.

Lang provides a host of helper utilities for the java.lang API, notably String manipulation methods, basic numerical methods, object reflection, creation and serialization, System properties and a series of utilities dedicated to help with building methods, such as hashCode, toString and equals.

There are a few new classes, and a lot of new methods in Lang 2.4. Of course there are also a bunch of bugfixes too. We've written a short article to cover all of these:

http://commons.apache.org/lang/article2_4.html

Source and binary distributions are available for download from the Apache Commons download site:

http://commons.apache.org/lang/download_lang.cgi

When downloading, please verify signatures using the KEYS file available at the above location when downloading the release.

Release notes are available at:

http://commons.apache.org/lang/upgradeto2_4.html

For more information on Apache Commons Lang, visit the Commons Lang home page:

http://commons.apache.org/lang/

Feedback, suggestions for improvement and contributions are always welcome via the Apache Commons mailing lists and issue tracker:

http://commons.apache.org/lang/mail-lists.html

http://commons.apache.org/lang/issue-tracking.html

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-- The Apache Commons community

[ Category : Apache Commons ]

The Apache James team (http://james.apache.org) are pleased to announce that once more we are proposing ideas for Google Summer of Code student projects. This years ideas are:

1) To develop a VERP Mailet to allow James to write VERP modified return addresses on outbound messages, and an inbound mailet/matcher to identify VERP bounces and invoke configurable "do something" code.

2) James' provided mailing list manager is fine for small closed groups, but lacks the functionality of a more robust MLM, the project is to add some all or more of the following features: subscriber and message moderation, double opt-in and bounce handling.

We all look forward to welcoming Student proposals for these or any other ideas, and would welcome discussion of the ideas on the James Server Developers mailing list.

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-- The Apache James Project

[ Category : Apache James ]

The Apache MyFaces Trinidad team is pleased to announce the release of Apache MyFaces Trinidad Core 1.0.7.

Apache MyFaces Trinidad is a JavaServer(tm) Faces 1.1 component library.

Trinidad Core 1.0.7 is available in both binary and source distributions:

* http://myfaces.apache.org/trinidad/download.html

Apache MyFaces Trinidad is available in the central Maven repository under Group ID "org.apache.myfaces.trinidad".

Release Notes

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-- The Apache MyFaces Trinidad Team

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The Apache MyFaces Trinidad team is pleased to announce the release of Apache MyFaces Trinidad Core 1.2.7.

Apache MyFaces Trinidad is a JavaServer(tm) Faces 1.2 component library.

Trinidad Core 1.2.7 is available in both binary and source distributions:

* http://myfaces.apache.org/trinidad/download.html

Apache MyFaces Trinidad is available in the central Maven repository under Group ID "org.apache.myfaces.trinidad".

Release Notes

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-- The Apache MyFaces Trinidad Team

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