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News & Status 2004 Jan-Jun

28 June 2004 - Commons Collections 3.1 released

The Commons Collections team is pleased to announce the release of Commons Collections 3.1. Commons Collections provides additional interfaces and implementations based on, and inspired by, the Java Collections Framework (Collection, List, Set, Map).

This release fixes a number of bugs in v3.0 and is fully compatible. Release v3.1 is also compatible with v2.1.1 enabling a workaround of previous compatability issues in IteratorUtils. In addition to bug fixes, this release adds various new features including:

  • TreeList - A new list implementation that is faster than ArrayList in certain use cases
  • MultiKeyMap - A dedicated map implementation to support combined keys mapping to a value
  • ReferenceIdentityMap - An identity based map whose keys/values can be garbage collected
  • Many more Serializable classes

Read the Release notes.
Download the binary distribution.
Download the source distribution.
Browse the collections website.
Please direct any feedback on issues or bugs to commons-user@jakarta.apache.org.

28 June 2004 - Henri Yandell Follows Geir Magnusson Jr. As Jakarta Chair

Henri Yandell has been elected as the next Jakarta Chair succeeding Geir Magnusson Jr. Here's Henri eulogy for Geir: 

By the way, in case it's Monday morning and everything is a haze, I should
mention that the board have accepted the PMC's recommendation of myself as
PMC chair to replace Geir.

While Geir is an example of a developer who is synonymous with Jakarta,
he's now taking on the highly public role of Geronimo PMC chair which
should dovetail with his role as Apache's JCP representative quite nicely.

I'm sure we're all very appreciative of his chairship over the last 6
months, and I'm looking forward to trying to live up to his and Sam's
example.

25 June 2004 - Commons/Net 1.2.2 Released

This is a fix release solving a problem with FTPClient.listFiles when a directory was not specified. Correct behavior of staying in the current directory was restored.

Downloads:
BINARY: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi
SOURCE: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/sourceindex.cgi

16 June 2004 - Commons Logging 1.0.4 Released

The Jakarta Commons team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.0.4 of the commons-logging component. Commons Logging is a thin bridging API.

This release features several enhancements and bug fixes but is primarily a service release supporting both the older 1.2.x versions of Log4J and the upcoming 1.3.x versions. It is a fully compatible, drop-in replacement for the last 1.0.3 release.

The latest binary release is always available on the Jakarta Binary Downloads page, its source is available from Jakarta Source Downloads page.

8 June 2004 - Commons DBCP 1.2.1 Released

The Jakarta Commons team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.2.1 of the Jakarta Commons DBCP component.

Commons-DBCP provides database connection pooling services. Together with Commons-Pool it is the default JNDI datasource provider for Tomcat.

DBCP 1.2.1 is a maintenance release to restore full JDK 1.3 compatibility. (see release notes for more info)

The latest binary release is always available on the Jakarta Binary Downloads page, its source is available from Jakarta Source Downloads page.

12 June 2004 - Commons Collections 3.1-RC1 and 2.1.1 patch released

The Commons Collections team announces the release of Commons Collections 3.1-RC1. This is a preview of v3.1 to enable users to test the release against their own code. We advise waiting for the formal 3.1 release before putting the code into production. Please direct any feedback on issues or bugs to commons-user@jakarta.apache.org.

Read the Release notes.
Download the distribution.
Browse the collections website.

The Commons Collections team also announces the release of Commons Collections 2.1.1. This is a patch release to v2.1 to enable a workaround of issues in IteratorUtils v3.0. If you are still using v2.1 please upgrade to v2.1.1, especially if you run an Open Source project. See the release notes for full details of the patch and why it was produced.

Read the Release notes.
Download the binary distribution.
Download the source distribution.

8 June 2004 - Commons DBCP 1.2 Released

The Jakarta Commons team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.2 of the Jakarta Commons DBCP component.

Commons-DBCP provides database connection pooling services. Together with Commons-Pool it is the default JNDI datasource provider for Tomcat.

There were some new features were added since the 1.1 release on 20 October 2003.

  • Performance optimizations for the PoolableConnectionFactory of BasicDataSource.
  • Add BasicDataSourceFactory.createDataSource(Properties properties) for creating a BasicDataSource.
  • Add initialSize parameter to do pre-loading of the connection.
  • Refactoring of the DelegatingStatement classes.
  • Make some properties dynamic (changeble at runtime), this will be completed in next release.
  • Improvements to the prepared statement pooling.
  • Driver specific changes/optimizations for: Oracle, Informix, DaffodilDB.
  • Several fixes for PerUserPoolDataSource
  • PoolingDriver uses now a PoolGuardConnectionWrapper by default. If access to the underlying connection is needed, you have to enable it: PoolingDriver.setAccessToUnderlyingConnectionAllowed(true)
  • This release contains bug fixes to all known issues. (see release notes for more info)

The latest binary release is always available on the Jakarta Binary Downloads page, its source is available from Jakarta Source Downloads page.

8 June 2004 - Commons Pool 1.2 Released

The Jakarta Commons team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.2 of the Jakarta Commons Pool component.

Commons-Pool provides a generic object pooling interface, a toolkit for creating modular object pools, and several general purpose pool implementations.

No new features were added since the 1.2 release on 20 October 2003.

This maintenance release is needed for DBCP v1.2. (see release notes for more info)

The latest binary release is always available on the Jakarta Binary Downloads page, its source is available from Jakarta Source Downloads page.

1 June 2004 - Tomcat 5.0.26 Beta Released

The Jakarta Tomcat team is happy to announce the release of Tomcat 5.0.26 Beta: Release Notes, Change Log, and General Information are available.

Downloads:

17 May 2004 - Commons HttpClient 3.0 Alpha 1 Released

The Jakarta Commons team is happy to announce the release of Commons HttpClient 3.0 alpha 1. Please see the release notes for a list of changes made since the 2.0 release.

Downloads:

Please see the HttpClient Web site for more information.

17 May 2004 - Velocity Tools 1.1 Released

The Velocity team is happy to announce the release of Velocity Tools 1.1. See the change log for a listing of the many improvements since our 1.0 release.

Downloads:

For more information on Jakarta Velocity Tools, see the Jakarta Velocity Tools web site.

14 May 2004 - Jakarta Cactus 1.6.1 Released

The Cactus team is pleased to announce the release of Cactus 1.6.1. Please check the full release details.

Both source and binary distributions are available through the usual Apache mirror sites. Please remember to verify the signatures of the distribution using the keys found on the main Apache web site when downloading from a mirror.

For more information on Jakarta Cactus, see the Cactus web site.

13 May 2004 - Commons/IO 1.0 Released

The Commons team is pleased to announce the release of Commons/IO 1.0.

Downloads:
BINARY: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi
SOURCE: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/sourceindex.cgi

For more information on Jakarta Commons/IO, see the Commons/IO web site.

09 May 2004 - Tomcat 5.0.24 Stable released

The Tomcat team is pleased to announce that Tomcat 5.0.24 Stable is now available.

Please refer to the changelog included in the releases for the list of changes.

Downloads:
BINARY:http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi
SOURCE:http://jakarta.apache.org/site/sourceindex.cgi

For more information on Jakarta Tomcat, see the Tomcat web site.

UPDATE: A hotfix for a session cookie tracking issue is available on the binaries download page.

08 May 2004 - Jakarta Cactus 1.6 Released

The Cactus team is pleased to announce the release of Cactus 1.6. Please check the full release details.

Both source and binary distributions are available through the usual Apache mirror sites. Please remember to verify the signatures of the distribution using the keys found on the main Apache web site when downloading from a mirror.

For more information on Jakarta Cactus, see the Cactus web site.

6 May 2004 - Commons/Net 1.2.1 Released

This is a fix release solving the incompatibility of Commons/Net-1.2.0 with JDK versions earlier than 1.4.

Downloads:
BINARY: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi
SOURCE: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/sourceindex.cgi

03 May 2004 - Jakarta Slide 2.0 Server and WebDAV Client Released

Jakarta Slide is home to WebDAV mediated content repository management in java. The 2.0 is an important milestone for the Slide sub-project and includes greatly improved server code and the latest WebDAV java client.

30 April 2004 - Commons/Net 1.2.0 Released

NOTE: This release has been superseded by Commons/Net-1.2.1

The Jakarta Commons team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.2.0 of the Jakarta Commons/Net component.

Commons/Net is an Internet protocol suite Java library which supports Finger, Whois, TFTP, Telnet, POP3, FTP, NNTP, SMTP, and some miscellaneous protocols like Time and Echo as well as BSD R command support.

This release adds, for the first time, autodetection of FTP server type when getting an FTP list, so that non-unix FTP servers can automatically provide usable listings with valid dates, etc. Server types supported in this are Windows NT, OS2, VMS, OS400 as well as unix. This enables its use in Ant's ftp task, for example.

The latest binary release is always available on the Jakarta Binary Downloads page, its source is available from Jakarta Source Downloads page.

23 April 2004 - Jetspeed 1.5 Released

The Jakarta Jetspeed development team has released the latest version of the Jetspeed Portal Server, version 1.5.

* New Features *

  • Jetspeed becomes a part of the Apache Portals project http://portals.apache.org
  • Build converted to Maven. Ant build deprecated.
  • Security refactored to allow assigning roles within groups
  • Jetspeed 1.5 Tutorial moved off of Bluesunrise and converted to Maven documentation format.
  • Jetspeed Maven Plugin for creating and working with Jetspeed-based projects
  • Jetspeed site converted to use Maven, and moved to http://portals.apache.org/jetspeed-1
  • Email Portlet
  • Redirect Portlet
  • Enhanced portlet filtering on the layout customizer
  • New skins and updated look and feel of the default portal
  • Portlets and decorators (controls) can now be completely hidden if user doesn't have secure access to the portlet.
  • GenericMVC portlet now can render in parallel with other portlets on the same page
  • Added filtering on portlet registry browser
  • Drag and drop controller for the layout designer
  • Upgrade to Torque 3.1 and Torque Plugin

Downloads:
BINARY: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi
SOURCE: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/sourceindex.cgi

19 April 2004 - Tapestry 3.0 Released

At long last, Tapestry 3.0 final release is now available. This release, over one and a half years in the making, represents a significant evolution of the Tapestry web application framework.

Tapestry 3.0 adds a raft of new features to the framework, all focused on improved developer productivity. Most significantly:

  • Implicit components, defined and configured directly in the HTML template.
  • Dynamic, rather than explicit, lookup of page and component specifications. Just drop the specification files into WEB-INF.
  • Automatic creation of transient and persistent properties at runtime, via bytecode enhancement. Define the properties in the specification, and let Tapestry create the property at runtime.
  • Improved client- and server-side form input validation.
  • Tapestry now uses Jakarta's FileUpload library.
  • Line precise error reporting: runtime errors refer to the exact template or specification file and line at the root of each error.

But that's not all! The Tapestry team has worked tirelessly to improve and expand the documentation, add new components and improve existing components, extend and improve the framework functionality in many small-yet-significant ways, add new tuning and configuration options, and create an extensive JUnit test suite to ensure it all works.

Downloads:
BINARY: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi
SOURCE: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/sourceindex.cgi

14 April 2004 - Velocity 1.4 Released

The eagerly awaited Velocity 1.4 release is now available for download.

09 April 2004 - Jakarta Tapestry 3.0 RC3 Released

Jakarta Tapestry 3.0 Release Candidate 3 has been released. This release fixes bugs identified in the previous release candidates.

Downloads:
BINARY: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi
SOURCE: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/sourceindex.cgi

Jakarta Tapestry Team

02 April 2004 - Jakarta Tapestry 3.0 RC2 Released

Jakarta Tapestry 3.0 Release Candidate 2 has been released. This release addresses minor problems in the first release candidate.

Downloads:
BINARY: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi
SOURCE: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/sourceindex.cgi

Jakarta Tapestry Team

30 March 2004 - Lucene 1.4 Release Candidate 2 Released

A new release of is available with many new features and bug fixes. See CHANGES.txt for details. Binary and source distributions are available here.

26 March 2004 - Tomcat mod_jk2 web server connector version 2.0.4 Released

The Tomcat team is pleased to announce the release of version 2.0.4 of the Apache Tomcat mod_jk2 web server connector.

Tomcat is the reference implementation of a web application server which implements the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages specifications.

mod_jk2 is a connector which allows a web server such as Apache HTTPD or IIS to act as a front end to the Tomcat web application server.

This version fixes a many majors bugs and is the first one to use APR which is now mandatory.

See the file CHANGES.txt in the source distribution for a complete list of changes.

Downloads:
BINARY:http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi
SOURCE:http://jakarta.apache.org/site/sourceindex.cgi

For more information on Jakarta Tomcat Connectors, see the Tomcat web site.

18 March 2004 - Jakarta Struts' graduation with honors into Apache Struts

Jakarta Struts graduats with honors into Apache Struts - Jakarta Struts formed its own PMCs in order to become Apache Struts - Top Level Project in The Apache Software Foundation.

Craig R. McClanahan will be the PMC Chair of Apache Struts. Congratulations,

17 March 2004 - Jakarta Tapestry 3.0 RC1 Released

Jakarta Tapestry 3.0 Release Candidate 1 has been released.

Downloads:
BINARY: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi
SOURCE: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/sourceindex.cgi

Jakarta Tapestry Team

12 March 2004 - Power to the HiveMind people - Graduation From Jakarta Commons Sandbox

The Apache Jakarta Project is very happy to announce it that HiveMind project has graduated from commons sandbox, outgrown to become one of the Jakarta sub-projects.

"[PROPOSAL] HiveMind in the sandbox" came to commons-dev at the end of May, 2003. It took 9 months - enough time has passed for the bless of the outgrowing of Hivemind into Jakarta Proper. HiveMind scratched an itch a lot of people have. Jakartaens and many Java developers/users did want this time to come.

Congratulations, to the HiveMind community.

-- Apache Jakarta Project --

08 March 2004 - Tomcat 3.3.2 Final Available

The Tomcat Team announces the immediate availability of Apache Tomcat 3.3.2 Final.

Please refer to the changelog included in the releases for the list of changes.

Downloads:
BINARY:http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi
SOURCE:http://jakarta.apache.org/site/sourceindex.cgi

For more information on Jakarta Tomcat, see the Tomcat web site.

03 March 2004 - POI 2.5-FINAL Released

ANNOUNCEMENT:

The POI Team is proud to announce the immediate availability of the Jakarta POI 2.5-FINAL release.

WHAT IS POI?

The POI project consists of APIs for manipulating various file formats based upon Microsoft's OLE 2 Compound Document format using pure Java. Support for reading and writing Microsoft Excel files and property information is mature and work continues on reading and writing the MS Word format.

You can find the website at http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/

NEW LICENSE:

This release is has upgraded it's license to version 2.0 of the Apache Software Foundation License. See http://www.apache.org/licenses/ for more details.

CHANGE LOG:

The following major changes have occurred since the 2.0 release:

  • HSSF (for reading and writing spreadsheets):
  • Support for the Escher format in spreadsheets. In other words you can now create shapes inside sheets.
  • BUG: 27005 java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException during Workbook.cloneSheet()

DOWNLOADS (source and binaries):

http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/jakarta/poi/

Regards,

The Jakarta POI Team.

01 March 2004 - The Board of the ASF established two new PMCs

The Board of the ASF (The Apache Software Foundation) established two new PMCs

  • The Apache Gump Project will now oversee the development and maintenance of the Apache Jakarta Gump project. Stefan Bodewig is the new Chair of this PMC.
  • The Apache Portals Project will be pulling together a number of different ASF technologies that are used to create portals (Jetspeed, Pluto, etc.). Santiago Gala is the new project Chair.

24 February 2004 - Geir Magnusson Jr Succeeds Sam Ruby As Jakarta Project Chair

Sam Ruby requested to step down from the Apache Jakarta Chair position. The Board appointed Geir Magnusson Jr to the newly-vacant Chair.

Thanks Sam for your time in the Chair. I also look forward to the things that Geir can bring to the Apache Jakarta Project!

Greg Stein, Chairman The Apache Software Foundation

The Jakarta Project of The Apache Software Foundation is controlled by the Jakarta PMC. The Apache Jakarta Chair chairs this commitee and is also an Officer of The Apache Software Foundation.

Sam Ruby has skillfully guided Jakarta through difficult times and all his hard work is very much appreciated. Geir Magnusson Jr is a very well known (and liked) Jakartaen. Good luck Geir!

24 February 2004 - Tomcat 3.3.2 Release Candidate 1 Available

The Tomcat Team announces the immediate availability of Apache Tomcat 3.3.2 Release Candidate 1. Download here.

23 February 2004 - Tomcat 5.0.19 Stable and Tomcat 4.1.30 Stable released

The Tomcat team is pleased to announce that Tomcat 5.0.19 Stable and Tomcat 4.1.30 Stable are now available.

Please refer to the changelog included in the releases for the list of changes.

Downloads:
BINARY:http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi
SOURCE:http://jakarta.apache.org/site/sourceindex.cgi

For more information on Jakarta Tomcat, see the Tomcat web site.

21 February 2004 - Velocity Tools 1.1 RC 1 Released

This release includes numerous improvements since the beta1 release. These include the refinement and completion of TilesTool and ValidatorTool, a NumberTool for formatting numbers, improved docs and examples, and more. See the change log for a more complete listing.

Downloads:

For more information on Jakarta Velocity Tools, see the Jakarta Velocity Tools web site.

16 February 2004 - Slide 2.0 Beta 1 Released

Slide is the Jakarta sub-project devoted to all matters WebDAV. The venerable Slide 1.x code has been refactored leading towards a new, improved 2.x series of releases. Slide 2.0 Beta 1 is an important milestone in this process.

Binary and source releases are available for download here. The following distributions are provided:

  • Slide bundled with Tomcat either 4.1.29 or 5.0.16
  • Binary distribution mainly containing all jars and a Web Archive (.war) for easy deployment in Web Containers
  • Binary distribution of the WebDAV client library and command line client
  • Full Slide WebDAV server sources
  • Full Slide WebDAV client sources

15 February 2004 - Commons HttpClient 2.0 Final Released

The HttpClient team is pleased to announce the release of HttpClient 2.0 final. This release represents a great deal of work by quite a number of people, and we would like to thank all of those who contributed to this release.

Only a few small bug fixes are included in this release. For more details please see the release notes.

Downloads:
Binary: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi
Source: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/sourceindex.cgi

Please see the HttpClient web site for more information.

5 February 2005 - Tapestry 3.0-beta-4

Tapestry release 3.0-beta-4 is now available. This release incorporates a number of significant bug fixes and improves the documentation. If you are building from source, Tapestry will now automatically download external dependencies (such as Forrest, DocBook and McKoi DB).

Tapestry is available as standard source and binary distributions.

30 January 2004 - Jakarta POI 2.0 FINAL released

The POI Team is proud to announce the immediate availability of the Jakarta POI 2.0-FINAL release.

WHAT IS POI?

The POI project consists of APIs for manipulating various file formats based upon Microsoft's OLE 2 Compound Document format using pure Java. Support for reading and writing Microsoft Excel files and property information is mature and work continues on reading and writing the MS Word format.

You can find the website at http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/

CHANGE LOG:

The following major changes have occurred since the 1.5 release:

HSSF (for reading and writing spreadsheets):

  • Numerous bug fixes
  • Improved support for non-english spreadsheets.
  • Formula support
  • Named cells and ranges
  • Sheet reordering
  • Zoom support
  • Freeze and split panes supported
  • Row and column headers
  • Custom data formats
  • Support for cloning objects
  • Headers and footers
  • Preservation of VBA macros when rewriting workbooks
  • Support for hyperlinks by using cell formulas:
    cell.setCellFormula("HYPERLINK(\"http://google.com\",\"Google\")");
  • Custom palettes

HPSF (for reading document properties):

  • Bug fixes
  • Codepage support
  • Read and write support
  • Custom properties

DOWNLOADS (source and binaries):

http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/jakarta/poi/

Regards,

The Jakarta POI Team.

25 January 2004 - Commons Collections 3.0 released

The Commons Collections team is pleased to announce that Commons Collections 3.0 release is now available.

This is a major release. If you are upgrading, please read the release notes for more information.

Downloads:
Binary: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi
Source: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/sourceindex.cgi

For more information on Jakarta Commons Collections, see the Collections web site.

22 January 2004 - Tomcat 5.0.18 Stable released

The Tomcat team is pleased to announce that Tomcat 5.0.18 Stable is now available.

Please refer to the changelog included in the releases for the list of changes.

Downloads:
BINARY:http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi
SOURCE:http://jakarta.apache.org/site/sourceindex.cgi

For more information on Jakarta Tomcat, see the Tomcat web site.

16 January 2004 - Commons HttpClient 2.0 RC 3 Released

The HttpClient team is pleased to announce the third 2.0 release candidate. This release primarily contains bug fixes. For more details please see the release notes.

Downloads:
Binary: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi
Source: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/sourceindex.cgi

Please see the HttpClient web site for more information.

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