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14 August 2008 - Apache Commons JXPath 1.3 Released

The Apache Commons team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Commons JXPath version 1.3.

The org.apache.commons.jxpath package defines a simple interpreter of an expression language called XPath. JXPath applies XPath expressions to graphs of objects of all kinds: JavaBeans, Maps, Servlet contexts, DOM etc, including mixtures thereof.

Commons JXPath 1.3 contains a substantial number of bug fixes as well as a number of new features. Details can be found in the release notes:

http://commons.apache.org/jxpath/release-notes-1.3.html

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

http://commons.apache.org/jxpath/download_jxpath.cgi

For more information on Commons JXPath, visit the project homepage:

http://commons.apache.org/jxpath/

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-- The Apache Commons Community

Project Info -- Apache Commons JXPath

A package of Java utility methods for accessing and modifying object properties

Releases can be downloaded from http://commons.apache.org/downloads/download_jxpath.cgi

Project Website	http://commons.apache.org/jxpath/
Programming Languages	Java
Categories	library
Mailing Lists	http://commons.apache.org/mail-lists.html
Bug/Issue Tracker	http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JXPATH
Project Management Committee	Apache Commons

Access to the source code:

Browse	http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/commons/proper/jxpath/trunk
SVN Direct	http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/commons/proper/jxpath

12 August 2008 - Apache MINA 2.0.0-M3 Now Available

The Apache MINA Project is pleased to announce the release of MINA 2.0.0-M3.

This release is finally done earlier than planed due to some serious performance regressions in 2.0.0-M2.

• 4 bug fixes :
  • Calling IoBuffer.slice() in CumulativeProtocolDecoder.doDecode() can cause data corruption.
  • Big performance drop in 2.0M2 CumulativeProtocolDecoder for large messages.
  • Running tests leave files in /tmp.
  • The proxy sample does not work - results in a NullPointerException.
• 3 improvements :
  • Moved ExceptionMonitor from core to util
  • IoFuture::isReady is renamed to isDone.
  • Port the 'Haiku' example to 1.0 and trunk.

This is a milestone release and is not yet considered suitable for production use. This release improve the code structure, documentation and provide bug fix and improvement since 2.0.0-M2. We are waiting your feedback for the next release.

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-- Apache MINA PMC (Project Management Committee)

Project Info -- Apache MINA

Apache MINA (Multipurpose Infrastructure for Network Applications) is a network application framework which helps users develop network applications easily by providing abstractions of network and protocol I/O layers.

Releases can be downloaded from http://mina.apache.org/downloads.html

Project Website	http://mina.apache.org/
Programming Languages	Java
Categories	network-client, network-server
Mailing Lists	http://mina.apache.org/mailing-lists.html
Bug/Issue Tracker	http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DIRMINA
Project Management Committee	Apache Mina

Access to the source code:

Browse	http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/mina/
SVN Direct	https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/mina

11 August 2008 - Apache Archiva 1.1.1 Released

The Apache Archiva team is pleased to announce the release of Archiva 1.1.1.

Apache Archiva is an extensible repository management software that helps taking care of your own personal or enterprise-wide build artifact repository. It is the perfect companion for build tools such as Maven, Continuum, and ANT.

Archiva offers several capabilities, amongst which remote repository proxying, security access management, build artifact storage, delivery, browsing, indexing and usage reporting, extensible scanning functionality... and many more

The latest release is now available here: http://archiva.apache.org/download.html

If you have any questions, please consult:

• the web site: http://archiva.apache.org
• the archiva-user mailing list: http://archiva.apache.org/mail-lists.html

Change Log for Archiva 1.1.1

Bug

• [MRM-584] - Newly created user cannot login
• [MRM-631] - network proxy is always used when defined
• [MRM-814] - Invalid cron expressions are accepted in Database Scanning
• [MRM-873] - repository groups - move up/down should not show when it's not possible
• [MRM-883] - RSS syndication java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
• [MRM-884] - network proxy fails after upgrading to archiva 1.1
• [MRM-888] - add notes on reindexing to the upgrade docs
• [MRM-891] - Unable to use archiva as http source with maven-stage-plugin
• [MRM-892] - Search for java classes and package names is broken
• [MRM-895] - Archiva version doesn't appear on the footer when it is installed on Tomcat
• [MRM-896] - classifier is appended to pom filename after artifact upload

Improvement

• [MRM-817] - Artifact information screen should indicate the name of repository in which the artifact resides

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-- The Apache Archiva team

Project Info -- Apache Maven Archiva

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

Releases can be downloaded from http://maven.apache.org/archiva/download.html

Project Website	http://maven.apache.org/archiva/
Programming Languages	Java
Categories	build-management
Mailing Lists	http://maven.apache.org/archiva/mail-lists.html
Bug/Issue Tracker	http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MRM
Project Management Committee	Apache Maven

Access to the source code:

Browse	http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/maven/archiva/trunk/
SVN Direct	http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/archiva/trunk/

08 August 2008 - Apache MyFaces Trinidad Core 1.0.9 Released

The Apache MyFaces Trinidad team is pleased to announce the release of Apache MyFaces Trinidad Core 1.0.9.

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

Trinidad Core 1.0.9 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: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310661&styleName=Html&version=12313158

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-- The Apache MyFaces Trinidad Team

Project Info -- Apache Trinidad

Apache MyFaces Trinidad is a JavaServer(tm) Faces 1.1/1.2 component library (Trinidad 1.0.x - JSF 1.1, Trinidad 1.2.x - JSF 1.2).

Releases can be downloaded from http://myfaces.apache.org/trinidad/download.html

Project Website	http://myfaces.apache.org/trinidad
Programming Languages	Java
Categories	library
Mailing Lists	http://myfaces.apache.org/trinidad/mail-lists.html
Bug/Issue Tracker	http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TRINIDAD
Project Management Committee	Apache MyFaces

Access to the source code:

Browse	http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/myfaces/trinidad
SVN Direct	http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/myfaces/trinidad

06 August 2008 - Apache FOP 0.95 Released

Apache FOP (Formatting Objects Processor) is a print formatter driven by XSL Formatting Objects 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 TIFF/PNG. Apache FOP is Open Source software and published under the Apache License v2.0.

It took longer than expected but we're happy to present the final Apache FOP 0.95 stable release. This is basically a bugfix release to 0.95beta. The most important changes since the previous stable release (0.94) 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.
• elimination of a potential multi-threading problem.
• some feature enhancements for RTF output (partial fo:leader support, fo:page-number-citation)

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_0.95.html

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

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

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-- The Apache XML Graphics team

Project Info -- Apache FOP

FOP (Formatting Objects Processor) is the world's first print formatter driven by XSL formatting objects (XSL-FO) and the world's first output independent formatter. It is a Java application that reads a formatting object (FO) tree and renders the resulting pages to a specified output. Output formats currently supported include PDF, PCL, PS, SVG, XML (area tree representation), Print, AWT, MIF and TXT. The primary output target is PDF.

Releases can be downloaded from http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/download.html

Project Website	http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop
Programming Languages	Java
Categories	xml, graphics
Mailing Lists	http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/maillist.html
Bug/Issue Tracker	http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?product=Fop
Project Management Committee	Apache XML Graphics

Access to the source code:

Browse	http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/xmlgraphics/fop/trunk/
SVN Direct	http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/xmlgraphics/fop/trunk/

31 July 2008 - Apache UIMA-AS (Asynchronous Scaleout) add-on for UIMA, version 2.2.2-incubating, Now Available

The Apache UIMA team is pleased to announce the first release of the UIMA-AS add-on for UIMA. (The release number is 2.2.2-incubating to correspond with the base UIMA level).

UIMA-AS adds a highly flexible, robust, and easy to use scaleout capability to the core UIMA framework; it can be considered to be a next-generation replacement for the original CPM (Collection Processing Management) scaleout that is part of the core UIMA framework.

Now you can selectively scale up (to take advantage of multiple cores) or scale out (over local and/or wide area networks) just those analytics that need the scaling, thus allowing optimization of computing resources. UIMA-AS has been successfully used on multiple projects, and scaled out to 100's of cores, with no limit in sight.

It makes use of JMS (Java Messaging Services) and uses Apache ActiveMQ to support messaging between components. Already written UIMA Components can take advantage of UIMA-AS scaleout with no code or component descriptor changes.

There is a short writeup that describes more details about the new capabilities and how to get started using it, on the UIMA website: http://incubator.apache.org/uima/doc-uimaas-what.html

UIMA is a component framework supporting integration and deployment of components for the analysis of unstructured content such as text, audio, and video; the main web-site is here: http://incubator.apache.org/uima/index.html

Thank you for your interest in Apache UIMA-AS. We look forward to hearing about your experience in using this new capability.

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--The Apache UIMA Team

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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.

31 July 2008 - Apache Tomcat 6.0.18 released

The Apache Tomcat team announces the immediate availability of Apache Tomcat 6.0.18 stable. This release includes many bugfixes over Apache Tomcat 6.0.16.

Apache Tomcat 6.0 includes new features over Apache Tomcat 5.5, including support for the new Servlet 2.5 and JSP 2.1 specifications, a refactored clustering implementation, advanced IO features, and improvements in memory usage.

Please refer to the change log for the list of changes: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/changelog.html

Downloads: http://tomcat.apache.org/download-60.cgi

Migration guide from Apache Tomcat 5.5.x: http://tomcat.apache.org/migration.html

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-- The Apache Tomcat Team

Project Info -- Apache Tomcat

Apache Tomcat is the servlet container that is used in the official Reference Implementation for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies. The Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages specifications are developed by Sun under the Java Community Process. Apache Tomcat is developed in an open and participatory environment and released under the Apache Software License. Apache Tomcat is intended to be a collaboration of the best-of-breed developers from around the world. We invite you to participate in this open development project. To learn more about getting involved, click here. Apache Tomcat powers numerous large-scale, mission-critical web applications across a diverse range of industries and organizations. Some of these users and their stories are listed on the PoweredBy wiki page.

Releases can be downloaded from http://tomcat.apache.org

Project Website	http://tomcat.apache.org
Programming Languages	Java
Categories	network-server
Mailing Lists	http://tomcat.apache.org/lists.html
Bug/Issue Tracker	http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla
Project Management Committee	Apache Tomcat

Access to the source code:

Browse	http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tomcat/
SVN Direct	http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tomcat

29 July 2008 - Apache MyFaces Trinidad Maven2 plugins version 1.2.7 released

The Apache MyFaces community is pleased to announce its 1.2.7 release of the Apache MyFaces Trinidad Maven2 plugins.

These Maven2 plugins have been deployed to the Apache Maven2 and they are mirrored by ibiblio as well.

release notes:

MyFaces Trinidad - Version 1.2.7-plugins

* [TRINIDAD-919] - maven-jdev-plugin does not evaluate
tag correctly for taglib (.tld) files

Improvement

* [TRINIDAD-987] - add 'scoped-id-holder' and
'multi-scoped-id-holder' to transform.xsl and transform12.xsl
* [TRINIDAD-1011] - Add new properties to the maven-faces-plugin
* [TRINIDAD-1065] - Support mfp:hidden to hide properties and
facets from the tag documentation
* [TRINIDAD-1163] - Improvements to property deprecation and a new
no-op feature

New Feature

* [TRINIDAD-953] - Support for Code Examples in Trinidad
Components, Validators, and Converters tagdocs
* [TRINIDAD-1056] - Chang maven-faces-plugin to stop filtering out metadata

25 July 2008 - Apache Directory Studio 1.2.0 RC1 Now Available

The Apache Directory Team is pleased to announce the release of Apache
Directory Studio 1.2.0 RC1, a major update of its Eclipse based LDAP
Browser and Directory client.

You can download Apache Directory Studio 1.2.0 RC1 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/

Here are a few highlights of this new version:
* The new Apache DS feature makes its introduction in Apache
Directory Studio. This new feature allows you to run the latest
version of Apache DS (1.5.3) from within Apache Directory Studio or
Eclipse and makes it super easy (and fast) to create and run an LDAP
Server.
* The Apache DS Configuration plugin now supports the 4 latest
versions of Apache DS. It's now capable to read/write the server.xml
file of an Apache DS 1.5.0, 1.5.1, 1.5.2 and 1.5.3.
* The Search Logs view has been added to the LDAP Browser.
* We've also added the support to use the proxy features of
Eclipse inside Studio as well as improved the platform (useful actions
have been added to the platform, the Mac OS X application now respects
the standards of Apple for the "About" and "Preferences" actions,
etc.).
* We've also fixed some bugs dealing with schema files and schema
parsing in the Schema Editor and LDAP Browser plugins.

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 6 major features:
* an LDAP Browser feature
* an LDIF Editor feature
* an ACI Editor feature for Apache Directory Server
* a Schema Editor feature
* an Apache DS feature
* an Apache DS Configuration feature

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

Below are the JIRA issues that were resolved since the release of
Apache Directory Studio 1.2.0 RC1:
Bug
* [DIRSTUDIO-89] - Entry painted even though not created in server
* [DIRSTUDIO-121] - Some property pages make the dialog very tall
* [DIRSTUDIO-157] - Studio looses STRG-V over some time of use
* [DIRSTUDIO-209] - Cannot expand attribute list
* [DIRSTUDIO-266] - OpenLDAP schema files parser fails when DESC
contains an empty string ''
* [DIRSTUDIO-273] - Unable to get Base DNs on OID (Oracle Internet Directory)
* [DIRSTUDIO-298] - NullPointerException raised when drag'n'dropping
a connection to a folder (on Mac OS X only)
* [DIRSTUDIO-315] - Choosing new value, in entry editor shows new
entry when server error occures
* [DIRSTUDIO-318] - Rename of multi-values RDN does not work when
changing the second RDN
* [DIRSTUDIO-319] - LDAP Browser creating new entry becomes empty
and unusable in Windows Vista after certain actions
* [DIRSTUDIO-323] - Studio fails to read ApacheDS server.xml
* [DIRSTUDIO-325] - Keybinding conflicts occurred. They may
interfere with normal accelerator operation.
* [DIRSTUDIO-326] - Non-Operational attributes are marked as
operational when bind to Siemens DirX 7.0
* [DIRSTUDIO-330] - CoreException raised in editor when opening a *.txt file
* [DIRSTUDIO-336] - Errors when parsing schema of some LDAP servers
* [DIRSTUDIO-341] - Paste error
* [DIRSTUDIO-342] - Relax the parser for the *.schema files
* [DIRSTUDIO-343] - Referrals not handled.
* [DIRSTUDIO-347] - Keybinding conflict for CTRL+Q
* [DIRSTUDIO-349] - Unable to enter large values for uid
* [DIRSTUDIO-350] - DS is not properly displaying case of group DN

Improvement
* [DIRSTUDIO-46] - Add connections import/export
* [DIRSTUDIO-126] - Triple click to edit attribute
* [DIRSTUDIO-295] - Add a console for errors
* [DIRSTUDIO-329] - Replace internal URL class by shared-ldap LdapURL class
* [DIRSTUDIO-337] - Add Save and Print actions in the toolbar of the
RCP application

New Feature
* [DIRSTUDIO-321] - Need to be able to set SOCKS proxy in the RCP version
* [DIRSTUDIO-328] - Search Logs View

Task
* [DIRSTUDIO-128] - Replace internal schema parser with the schema
parser in shared-ldap.
* [DIRSTUDIO-317] - Update legal files after moving to Apache
Directory Shared LDAP version 0.9.9
* [DIRSTUDIO-332] - Add support for 1.5.3, 1.5.2 and 1.5.0
server.xml configuration files
* [DIRSTUDIO-338] - Update Eclipse dependencies to the latest
Eclipse version (3.3.2)
* [DIRSTUDIO-339] - Add the 'org.eclipse.ui.carbon' Eclipse plugin
to the Mac OS X distribution

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-- The Apache Directory Team

Project Info -- Apache Directory Studio

Apache Directory Studio is a complete LDAP tooling platform intended to be used with any LDAP server however it is particularly designed for use with the Apache Directory Server. 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.

Releases can be downloaded from http://directory.apache.org/studio/downloads.html

Project Website	http://directory.apache.org/studio/
Programming Languages	Java
Categories	network-client
Mailing Lists	http://directory.apache.org/studio/mailing-lists.html
Bug/Issue Tracker	http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DIRSTUDIO
Project Management Committee	Apache Directory

Access to the source code:

Browse	http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/directory/studio/
SVN Direct	http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/directory/studio/

21 July 2008 - Apache Directory Server 1.5.3 Released

The Apache Directory team is pleased to announce the release of ApacheDS 1.5.3.

ApacheDS is an embeddable directory server entirely written in Java, which
has been certified LDAPv3 compatible by the Open Group. Besides LDAP it
supports Kerberos 5 and the Change Password Protocol. It has been designed
to introduce triggers, stored procedures, queues and views to the world of
LDAP which has lacked these rich constructs.

This version is mainly a bug fix version, which also bring some new
installers (for Solaris and tar.gz installers), more performance, and
NTLM authentication (some external package must be downloaded).

40 issues has also been fixed since the last relase, 1.5.2.

ADS 1.5.3 is not a definitive version, as we are working in an unstable
branch, and there may be some modification in the configuration or features
in the next 1.5.x versions. However, this is the most stable version of
the Apache Directory Server.

The latest release is now available here:
http://directory.apache.org/apacheds/1.5/downloads.html

If you have any questions, please consult:
- the web site: http://directory.apache.org
- the mailing lists:
http://directory.apache.org/community%26resources/mailing-lists-and-irc.html

Changelog for ApacheDS 1.5.3
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Bugs :
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DIRSERVER-768 : provide debug output in
org.apache.directory.server.core.authn.AuthenticationService.checkAuthenticated()

DIRSERVER-1031 : no credentials required to shut down server from in-vm
DIRSERVER-1085 : Modify.RENAME operation may not work well with multiple
attributes RDN
DIRSERVER-1087 : Installer init script does not start default instance on
startup.
DIRSERVER-1089 : ConcurrentModificationException problem in
org.apache.directory.shared.ldap.message.AttributesImpl
DIRSERVER-1109 : Failure to create entry with Rdn starting with hash (#)
DIRSERVER-1112 : ApacheDS installer creates redundant server.xml file
DIRSERVER-1118 : Cannot have two partitions dc=example,dc=com and
dc=carrefour,dc=com at the same time.
DIRSERVER-1151 : Cannot have multiple instance in-process listening on
different sockets / ports
DIRSERVER-1157 : Deleting Alias entry failure
DIRSERVER-1162 : Moddn with mulit-valued RDN mangles the entry
DIRSERVER-1166 : a lot of Persistent searches may exhaust the available
threads
DIRSERVER-1168 : StartTLS API activation not Working with
addExtendedOperationHandler()
DIRSERVER-1171 : Improper use of SASL mechanisms and simple binds
DIRSERVER-1175 : Binary installer removes '/root' partition under certains
circumstances
DIRSERVER-1180 : NPE and hanging search request when using a filter with
empty substring sequence
DIRSERVER-1182 : SchemaServiceIT tests are broken
DIRSERVER-1188 : Windows Installer corrupts Windows when uninstalling.
DIRSERVER-1196 : Filter with special characters crashes JVM

Improvements :
--------------
DIRSERVER-478 : Standarzied serialization and deserialization of Name,
Attribute, and Attributes.
DIRSERVER-610 : Need to simplify process for changing admin password
DIRSERVER-986 : Implement a new LDAP Filter parser
DIRSERVER-1084 : Effective userid needs to be more flexible (per instance)
DIRSERVER-1124 : Reduce log ERROR to WARN to avoid startup and shutdown
noise as replicas connect/disconnect
DIRSERVER-1125 : Use the rat maven plugin with the -Prelease profile option
to generate releases
DIRSERVER-1147 : Improve Search request with selected atttributes
DIRSERVER-1163 : Sys-V-Init script lacks LSB header

New Features :
--------------
DIRSERVER-674 : Support for directory.service.type as a JNDI parameter
DIRSERVER-676 : Provide a method for gathering a handle on root DSE on
behalf of any principal
DIRSERVER-1189 : Configuration option for confidentiality: requiring TLS
secured connections for performing requests
DIRSERVER-1190 : Add a PKG installer for Solaris

Tasks :
-------
DIRSERVER-1053 : Review server-tools project
DIRSERVER-1197 : Add Apache License headers to installer files with their
specific syntax for comments

Wish :
------
DIRSERVER-931 : Provide a zip/tar.gz download for DS

The Apache Directory team is also pleased to announce the release of Apache
Directory Shared 0.9.11, its directory-related library used by Apache DS
and
Apache Directory Studio.

Changelog for Apache Directory Shared 0.9.11
============================================
Bugs :
------
DIRSHARED-2 : Second ATAV of a multi-valued RDN is not handled correctly in
Rdn.compareTo() method
DIRSHARED-3 : Rdn.compareTo() method is not invertable
DIRSHARED-9 : Rdn.equals() and Rdn.comparTo() don't work correctly for
multivalued RDNs

Improvements :
--------------
DIRSHARED-7 : Add setters to LdapURL class
DIRSHARED-8 : Merge schema grammars and relax schema parser
DIRSHARED-10 : Add support for OpenLDAP object identifier macros

The Apache Directory Team

Project Info -- Apache Directory Server

ApacheDS is an an embeddable directory server entirely written in Java, which has been certified LDAPv3 compatible by the Open Group. Besides LDAP it supports Kerberos 5 and the Change Password Protocol.

Releases can be downloaded from http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/directory/apacheds/

Project Website	http://directory.apache.org
Programming Languages	Java
Categories	network-server
Mailing Lists	http://directory.apache.org/community%26resources/mailing-lists-and-irc.html
Bug/Issue Tracker	http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DIRSERVER
Project Management Committee	Apache Directory

Access to the source code:

Browse	http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/directory/apacheds/
SVN Direct	http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/directory/apacheds/

20 July 2008 - Apache Archiva 1.1 Released

The Apache Archiva team is pleased to announce the release of Archiva 1.1

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

If you have any questions, please consult:

- the web site: http://archiva.apache.org
- the archiva-user mailing list: http://archiva.apache.org/mail-lists.html

New in Archiva 1.1
================

* Artifact Uploads

To simplify adding artifacts to a repository, an upload form has been put in
place that allows you to put an artifact and POM into the repository without
the need for the Maven deploy-file command.

* RSS

RSS is now available for getting a feed of new artifacts being added to a
given repository. Two types of feeds are generated by Archiva: new artifacts
in a repository and new versions of a specific artifact.

* Virtual Repositories

Virtual repositories or repository groups allows downloading from a group of
repositories via one url (group url).

* Timeouts

Connections to remote repositories can now have a configurable timeout value

* New Runtime Bundle

The application is now distributed using Jetty 6.1 and it's documented
configuration, rather than the previous Plexus application server bundle. It
continues to use the Java Service Wrapper (v3.2.3) for application
monitoring, though the configuration has been improved, particularly with
regard to separating the application configuration from the installation.

* Using Spring

Archiva now uses the Spring Framework as it's underlying container instead
of Plexus. This results in a boost in performance and stability for the web
application in particular.

* Using Apache Jackrabbit WebDAV Servlet

Archiva now uses Apache Jackrabbit's WebDAV servlet for serving repository
content instead of plexus-webdav. The change results in reduced codebase
complexity, increased standards compliance, better webdav client support and
a small peformance boost.

Change Log for Archiva 1.1
=======================

* [MRM-801] - Create documentation for virtual repositories
* [MRM-861] - Paginate Search Results page
* [MRM-234] - Moving files between repos through webdav doesn't work
* [MRM-312] - ConcurrentModificationException
* [MRM-523] - Appearance Actions do not work when ${user.home} is
invalid.
* [MRM-538] - Browse > Info not synchronised with updated POM contents
* [MRM-550] - proxy connectors - move up/down should not show when it's
not possible
* [MRM-597] - Cannot run Archiva as another user because su is run with
option "-" (--login)
* [MRM-602] - add "maintainance" to the feature tour
* [MRM-605] - unit tests fail on archiva 1.0 source distribution
* [MRM-610] - a number of unit tests fail on windows
* [MRM-614] - User validation message has incorrect URL
* [MRM-624] - Failed to install Archiva as windows service
* [MRM-629] - NullPointer when setting corporate POM on a fresh archvia
install
* [MRM-638] - some developer reports are appearing in the archiva-docs
module and need to be disabled
* [MRM-650] - Deleted metadata files still appear in search results
* [MRM-652] - Invalid html links in "webdav" directory browsing
* [MRM-653] - WebDAV deploy fails with error
* [MRM-658] - org.apache.maven.archiva.repository.content.FilenameParser
is unable to determine unique snapshot versions with specific version names
* [MRM-682] - Archiva runs out of heap memory
* [MRM-692] - Repository problem is kept in database even though its
related artifact has been already removed
* [MRM-702] - in the standalone bundle, the pid file is written into the
installation directory alongside the wrapper, but should be in a temporary
location
* [MRM-711] - Security using ldap throws NullPointerException
* [MRM-733] - Error ending component lifecycle
* [MRM-753] - Error while deploying an artifact to archiva
* [MRM-767] - generated LICENSE and NOTICE files need improvement
* [MRM-768] - Cannot proxy maven2 plugin (jaxb) from a maven1 repository
(http://download.java.net/maven/1)
* [MRM-769] - CLONE - 507 Insufficient Storage when deploying artifact
with webdav
* [MRM-777] - assignments.jsp: missing group under "Resource
Roles":
* [MRM-778] - DefaultDavServerManager.createServer doesn't create server
* [MRM-780] - Access to indexes files with a browser is not possible
* [MRM-784] - mailing-info on the website points to 'old'
maven.apache.org addresses
* [MRM-785] - No message is displayed after a successful artifact upload
* [MRM-789] - Archiva may delete you app server installation
* [MRM-790] - [regression] proxying metadata causes an IO exception in
new checksum code
* [MRM-792] - remove references to maven in code
* [MRM-796] - releases always activated in repositories
* [MRM-797] - Delete Released Snapshots doesn't work
* [MRM-800] - Admin user account user lockout via Webdav only?
* [MRM-810] - Uploads done through the Web UI are not reported in the
audit log
* [MRM-818] - [Repository Group] Page will be broken if entered
identifier is too long
* [MRM-819] - ERROR 404 page when clicking the URL of Repository Group
with identifier i.e. "test/test"
* [MRM-820] - 404 when the dav url of an Archiva default repository
(internal or snapshots) is accessed
* [MRM-823] - Deleted repository still shows up in the repo group
* [MRM-824] - dependency cleanup
* [MRM-835] - Checksum search appears broken
* [MRM-840] - Wagon HTTP deadlocks under high load
* [MRM-845] - Continuous Loop when you click a repository group link
* [MRM-846] - "Repository Purge By Retention Count" option not working
* [MRM-847] - DependencyTreeGeneratorConsumerTest fails under windows
due to line ending
* [MRM-851] - wrong taglib short-name causes deployment error on
Geronimo
* [MRM-853] - HTTP Error 500 when uploading artifact with Windows OS
* [MRM-855] - java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
org/apache/xml/serialize/OutputFormat
* [MRM-856] - Artifact Upload replaces all instances of the name "jar"
with "pom" when trying to change the file extension
* [MRM-858] - last-modified header is missing
* [MRM-865] - Upload snapshot should work like a deploy
* [MRM-867] - 500 on HEAD method
* [MRM-869] - many empty folders created in managed repos with proxy
connectors when used in a group
* [MRM-870] - addRepositoryToGroup.action => AbstractMethodError on
DeferredDocumentImpl.getXmlStandalone()
* [MRM-871] - jetty.host and jetty.port properties are set by default in
jetty.xml preventing user from using other hostname if user is not aware of
these properties
* [MRM-872] - empty metadatas frmo a repository group
* [MRM-591] - Reports should show from which repository the defective
artifact was found.
* [MRM-651] - Updated consumer plugin to build against the 1.1 apis
* [MRM-654] - Archetype for generation of Consumer plugins
* [MRM-667] - Timeout implementation for Archiva
* [MRM-678] - 404 errors on proxies should be cached
* [MRM-737] - Don't list metadata files in the search results
* [MRM-752] - Trim URL in Remote Repositories
* [MRM-760] - set JSW to auto-restart if it crashes or hangs
* [MRM-773] - Improve RSS feed generation
* [MRM-781] - Removal of Archiva-Webdav implementation in favor of
Jackrabbit-webdav
* [MRM-802] - Display the url for the repository group
* [MRM-804] - When uploading artifacts to the repo, they should be added
to the index instantly
* [MRM-822] - add org/jvnet/**, com/sun/** to the whitelist for the
default java.net repository
* [MRM-829] - Replace Company POM feature with simple Appearence
customisation
* [MRM-831] - When deploying artifacts to the repo, they should be added
to the index instantly
* [MRM-857] - set a user agent for proxy HTTP requests
* [MRM-859] - Use File.createTempFile() when downloading files from a
remote repository
* [MRM-123] - add RSS view to repository manager
* [MRM-216] - Upload (deploy) artifacts to a repository - via a web form
(not using wagon)
* [MRM-694] - Virtual repositories or repository grouping
* [MRM-730] - Index/Search by class, method or package name
* [MRM-751] - Support database connection pooling
* [MRM-774] - Support inclusion of pom file when deploying an artifact
via the web upload form
* [MRM-864] - Searching within search results
* [MRM-677] - Upgrade archiva to the latest redback (1.0.1)
* [MRM-688] - Replace plexus-runtime with standalone jetty bundle
* [MRM-708] - Migrate from Plexus Logging to Slf4J
* [MRM-754] - Update the screenshots in the docs

Thanks,
The Apache Archiva team

Project Info -- Apache Maven Archiva

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

Releases can be downloaded from http://maven.apache.org/archiva/download.html

Project Website	http://maven.apache.org/archiva/
Programming Languages	Java
Categories	build-management
Mailing Lists	http://maven.apache.org/archiva/mail-lists.html
Bug/Issue Tracker	http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MRM
Project Management Committee	Apache Maven

Access to the source code:

Browse	http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/maven/archiva/trunk/
SVN Direct	http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/archiva/trunk/

18 July 2008 - Apache POI 3.5.1 beta Now Available

The Apache POI team is pleased to announce the availability of Apache POI 3.5.1 beta 1, our first release including OOXML (Office Open XML) support.

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. With POI 3.5, it also support the new OOXML formats introduced in Office 2007. See http://poi.apache.org/ for more details

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Release Highlights:

• POI-SS - Java API To Access Microsoft Excel Format Files
  • This common interface allows access to HSSF (binary file format, .xls) and XSSF (ooxml file format, .xlsx) in the same way
  • Very similar to HSSF usermodel, allowing easy translation of old code support to the new format
  • All of HSSF should support this interface
  • Partial implementation of XSSF for this interface
  • POI-XSSF - Java API To Access Microsoft Excel 2007 OOXML Format Files
    • partial implementation of high level interface
    • text extraction supported
    • low level, low memory parsing supported
  • POI-XSLF - Java API To Access Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 OOXML Format Files
    • text extraction supported
  • POI-XWPF - Java API To Access Microsoft Word 2007 OOXML File Formats
    • text extraction supported
    
    
  
  

  In addition, all fixes from POI 3.1 FINAL, and from just after, are included. For full changelog details, and documentation, please see /docs/ in the distribution. The documentation on the website reflects the state of work on POI 3.1.1.

  
  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 "3.5.1-beta1". Note that the ooxml support is not available via Maven, as the dependencies are not packaged.

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  -- The Apache POI Team

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  Project Info -- Apache POI

  

  APIs for manipulating various file formats based upon Microsoft's OLE 2 Compound Document format using pure Java. POI is your Java Excel solution as well as your Java Word solution. However, we have a complete API for porting other OLE 2 Compound Document formats and welcome others to participate.

  Releases can be downloaded from http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/poi/

  Project Website	http://poi.apache.org/
  Programming Languages	Java
  Categories	library
  Mailing Lists	http://poi.apache.org/mailinglists.html
  Bug/Issue Tracker	http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?product=POI
  Project Management Committee	Apache POI

  Access to the source code:

  Browse	http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/poi/
  SVN Direct	http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/poi

  Posted by Tetsuya Kitahata at July 18, 2008 08:23 PM
  http://www.apachenews.org/archives/001180.html
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16 July 2008 - Apache VelocityTools 2.0 Released

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.

Project Info -- Apache Velocity Tools

VelocityTools is a collection of Velocity subprojects with a common goal of creating tools and infrastructure for building both web and non-web applications using the Velocity template engine.

Releases can be downloaded from http://velocity.apache.org/download.cgi

Project Website	http://velocity.apache.org/tools/devel/
Programming Languages	Java
Categories	library
Mailing Lists	http://velocity.apache.org/contact.html
Bug/Issue Tracker	http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VELTOOLS
Project Management Committee	Apache Velocity

Access to the source code:

Browse	http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/velocity/tools/trunk/
SVN Direct	http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/velocity/tools/trunk