[ANN] Apache Tomcat 6.0.26 released

12
Mar/10
0
The Apache Tomcat team announces the immediate availability of Apache
Tomcat 6.0.26 stable. This release includes bug-fixes over Apache
Tomcat 6.0.24.
Note that is version has 4 zip binaries: a generic one and three
bundled with Tomcat native binaries for different CPU architectures.

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

Thank you,

-- The Apache Tomcat Team

[ANN] Apache Tomcat Connectors 1.2.30 released

1
Mar/10
0
The Apache Tomcat team announces the immediate availability of
Apache Tomcat Connectors 1.2.30 stable.

Apache Tomcat Connectors 1.2.30 concentrates mainly on bug fixes.

Please refer to the change log for the list of changes:

http://tomcat.apache.org/connectors-doc/miscellaneous/changelog.html

Downloads:

http://tomcat.apache.org/download-connectors.cgi

Please note that syncing the release to the download mirrors
might take up to 48 hours.

Important Notice:
Version 1.2.29 has been withdrawn from the released versions
because of regression found with Microsoft IIS connector.

Thank you
--
The Apache Tomcat team

[ANN] Maven 2.0.11 Released

26
Feb/10
0
The Apache Maven team would like to announce the release of Maven 2.0.11.

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

This release is intended for all current users of Maven 2.0.10 and below who are not able
to upgrade to Maven 2.2.1, and contains 37 improvements and fixes.

** Note: the current stable release of Maven remains as Maven 2.2.1, and all users are recommended
to upgrade to that version **

The full release notes can be obtained from:

http://maven.apache.org/docs/2.0.11/release-notes.html

Regards,
- The Apache Maven team

--
Brett Porter
brett@apache.org

http://brettporter.wordpress.com/

[ANN] Apache Tomcat Connectors 1.2.29 released

26
Feb/10
0
The Apache Tomcat team announces the immediate availability of
Apache Tomcat Connectors 1.2.29 stable.

Apache Tomcat Connectors 1.2.29 concentrates mainly on bug fixes.

Please refer to the change log for the list of changes:

http://tomcat.apache.org/connectors-doc-1.2.29/miscellaneous/changelog.html

Downloads:

http://tomcat.apache.org/download-connectors.cgi

Please note that syncing the release to the download mirrors
might take up to 48 hours.

Thank you,
--
The Tomcat Team

[ANN] Apache Tomcat Native 1.1.20 released

17
Feb/10
0
The Apache Tomcat team announces the immediate availability of Apache
Tomcat Native 1.1.20 stable.
This release includes a fix for JVM crash on Tomcat shutdown.

Please refer to the change log for the list of changes:

http://tomcat.apache.org/native-doc/miscellaneous/changelog.html

Downloads:

http://tomcat.apache.org/download-native.cgi

Thank you,
--
The Apache Tomcat Team

[ANNOUNCE] Apache PDFBox 1.0.0 released

16
Feb/10
0
The Apache PDFBox community is pleased to announce the first release
of Apache PDFBox version 1.0.0. The release is available for download
at:

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

See the full release notes below for details about this release.

Release Notes -- Apache PDFBox -- Version 1.0.0

Introduction
------------

PDFBox is an open source Java library for working with PDF documents.

The most notable changes in this release are the upgrade to Java 5, numerous
performance improvements, support for page labels and Adobe CFF/Type2 fonts,
and the switch of the default build system from Ant to Maven. For more
details, please refer to the following issues on the PDFBox issue tracker
at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX:

New Features

  [PDFBOX-90]  Support explicit retrieval of page labels
  [PDFBOX-505] Support for adding a textmatrix, textscaling and textrotation
  [PDFBOX-526] Add ability to read encrypted file & write unencrypted file
  [PDFBOX-542] Support for Adobe CFF/Type2 fonts
  [PDFBOX-572] Upgrading PDFBox (incl. JempBox and FontBox) to use Java 5 ...

Improvements

  [PDFBOX-514] maven pom's do not include source artifacts
  [PDFBOX-531] Minor change to expose separating beads option through ...
  [PDFBOX-532] getPageLabels method for PDocumentCatalog class.
  [PDFBOX-545] Switch PDFBox build to Maven
  [PDFBOX-558] PDPageDestination getPageNumber only returns page number ...
  [PDFBOX-580] Use a dummy color instead of failing with unsupported ...
  [PDFBOX-581] Avoid warnings for graphics operations when extracting text
  [PDFBOX-599] PDFBox performance issue: TextPosition performance tweak
  [PDFBOX-600] PDFBox performance issue: PDFTextStripper performance tweak
  [PDFBOX-601] PDFBox performance issue: PDSimpleFont, PDFont performance ...
  [PDFBOX-602] PDFBox performance issue: PDPage tweaks
  [PDFBOX-603] PDFBox performance issue: Encoding.java getCharacter() ...
  [PDFBOX-604] Various text extraction performance improvements

Bug Fixes

  [PDFBOX-50]  Hierarchical PDRadioCollections cannot be processed.
  [PDFBOX-218] bad print
  [PDFBOX-508] Lost spacing as a result of operator "Tc" ignoring.
  [PDFBOX-519] NullPointerException in SetNonStrokingSeparation.java
  [PDFBOX-520] Ignores char spacing (Tc) and word space (Tw) when ...
  [PDFBOX-522] PDIndexed.java does not support a base color space other ...
  [PDFBOX-536] missing iterator.hasNext() test in PDFXrefStreamParser
  [PDFBOX-537] Endless loop in org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.BaseParser....
  [PDFBOX-541] Infinite loop in BaseParser.parseCOSDictionary
  [PDFBOX-549] Lost links when merging with PDFMergerUtility ...
  [PDFBOX-552] NPE while printing a pdf with an image inside
  [PDFBOX-555] Highlight.jsp (pdfbox.war) not working
  [PDFBOX-557] Missing entries in glyphlist
  [PDFBOX-571] Dubious handling of word spacing (Tw)
  [PDFBOX-573] Maven build does not download files not inclued in ...
  [PDFBOX-583] TextPosition#getIndividualWidths returns negative values
  [PDFBOX-590] PDFXrefStreamParser iterates when no elements are available
  [PDFBOX-591] PDFBox performance issue: BaseParser.readUntilEndStream() ...
  [PDFBOX-593] ClassCastException in PDAppearanceDictionary
  [PDFBOX-594] Typo: change getBoderStyle() to getBorderStyle()
  [PDFBOX-596] PDActionURI: invalid getBase()
  [PDFBOX-597] PDAcnnotation has methods not defined for all annotations
  [PDFBOX-598] DateConverter.toCalendar doesn't clear milliseconds field
  [PDFBOX-614] Rendering image results in java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: ...

Release Contents
----------------

This release consists of a single source archive packaged as a zip file.
The archive can be unpacked with the jar tool from your JDK installation.
See the README.txt file for instructions on how to build this release.

The source archive is accompanied by SHA1 and MD5 checksums and a PGP
signature that you can use to verify the authenticity of your download.
The public key used for the PGP signature can be found at

https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/pdfbox/KEYS.

About Apache PDFBox
-------------------

Apache PDFBox is an open source Java library for working with PDF documents.
This project allows creation of new PDF documents, manipulation of existing
documents and the ability to extract content from documents. Apache PDFBox
also includes several command line utilities. Apache PDFBox is published
under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

For more information, visit http://pdfbox.apache.org/

About The Apache Software Foundation
------------------------------------

Established in 1999, The Apache Software Foundation provides organizational,
legal, and financial support for more than 100 freely-available,
collaboratively-developed Open Source projects. The pragmatic Apache License
enables individual and commercial users to easily deploy Apache software;
the Foundation's intellectual property framework limits the legal exposure
of its 2,500+ contributors.

For more information, visit http://www.apache.org/

[ANNOUNCE] Apache FontBox 1.0.0 released

16
Feb/10
0
The Apache PDFBox community is pleased to announce the first release
of Apache FontBox version 1.0.0. The release is available for download
at:

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

See the full release notes below for details about this release.

Note that a regression related to the way certain font encodings are
handled was detected after this release was prepared. See PDFBOX-619
for the details. A fix to this issue will be included in a 1.0.1 patch
release in near future.

Release Notes -- Apache FontBox -- Version 1.0.0

Introduction
------------

Apache FontBox is an open source Java library for working with PDF fonts.

The most notable changes in this release are the upgrade to Java 5, added
support for Adobe CFF/Type2 fonts and switch of the build system from Ant
to Maven. For more details, please refer to the following issues on the
PDFBox issue tracker at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX:

  [PDFBOX-542] Support for Adobe CFF/Type2 fonts
  [PDFBOX-572] Upgrading PDFBox (incl. JempBox and FontBox) to use Java 5 ...
  [PDFBOX-608] Bug in CMap implementation
  [PDFBOX-613] Adobe CFF/Type2 font additions

See the Apache PDFBox website at http://pdfbox.apache.org/ for more
information about PDFBox and FontBox.

Release Contents
----------------

This release consists of a single source archive packaged as a zip file.
The archive can be unpacked with the jar tool from your JDK installation.
See the README.txt file for instructions on how to build this release.

The source archive is accompanied by SHA1 and MD5 checksums and a PGP
signature that you can use to verify the authenticity of your download.
The public key used for the PGP signature can be found at

https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/pdfbox/KEYS.

About Apache PDFBox
-------------------

Apache PDFBox is an open source Java library for working with PDF documents.
This project allows creation of new PDF documents, manipulation of existing
documents and the ability to extract content from documents. Apache PDFBox
also includes several command line utilities. Apache PDFBox is published
under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

For more information, visit http://pdfbox.apache.org/

About The Apache Software Foundation
------------------------------------

Established in 1999, The Apache Software Foundation provides organizational,
legal, and financial support for more than 100 freely-available,
collaboratively-developed Open Source projects. The pragmatic Apache License
enables individual and commercial users to easily deploy Apache software;
the Foundation's intellectual property framework limits the legal exposure
of its 2,500+ contributors.

For more information, visit http://www.apache.org/

[Announce] Release of Apache MyFaces Trinidad 1.0.12

16
Feb/10
0
The Apache MyFaces Trinidad team is pleased to announce the release of
Apache MyFaces Trinidad Core 1.0.12.

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

Trinidad Core 1.0.12 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=12314137

Enjoy!

--
Matthias Wessendorf

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[Announce] Release of Apache MyFaces Trinidad 2.0.0-alpha-2

16
Feb/10
0
The Apache MyFaces Trinidad team is pleased to announce the release of
Apache MyFaces Trinidad Core 2.0.0-alpha-2.

Apache MyFaces Trinidad 2 is a JavaServer(tm) Faces 2.0 component library.

Note: This is the second release of the Apache MyFaces Trinidad 2 series and it
is an alpha relases.

Apache MyFaces Trinidad Core 2.0.0-alpha-2 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=12314513

Enjoy!
Matthias

--
Matthias Wessendorf

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twitter: http://twitter.com/mwessendorf

[ANN] Release of Apache MyFaces Trinidad’s Maven plugins (2.0.1)

16
Feb/10
0
Hi,

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

This release contains support for the new JSF 2.0 related API/metadata.

These Maven2 plugins have been deployed to the Apache Maven2 repository and they
should be mirrored by ibiblio as well (very soon).

release notes:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310661&styleName=Html&version=12314512

--
Matthias Wessendorf

blog: http://matthiaswessendorf.wordpress.com/
sessions: http://www.slideshare.net/mwessendorf
twitter: http://twitter.com/mwessendorf