The Apache Software Foundation

The Apache Directory Team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Directory Studio 1.4.0, a new major update of its Eclipse based LDAP Browser and Directory client.

You can download Apache Directory Studio 1.4.0 as a standalone RCP application for Mac OS X, Linux and Windows here:
  http://directory.apache.org/studio/downloads.html

You can 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.

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 1.3.0:

Bug
[DIRSTUDIO-373] - Can't delete a tagged attribute if the non tagged
attribute belong to the DN
[DIRSTUDIO-395] - Problems with special chars (german Umlauts)
[DIRSTUDIO-396] - Custom LDAP attributes not shown in entry editor
[DIRSTUDIO-419] - Problems switching between connections
[DIRSTUDIO-420] - Unable to locate in DIT (f3)
[DIRSTUDIO-423] - Outline view does not respect the settings of the
Entry Editor on displaying or not the operational attributes
[DIRSTUDIO-427] - Operational attributes turned on by itself
[DIRSTUDIO-430] - NullPointer exception when fetching children of a node
[DIRSTUDIO-436] - Eclipse Hangs on Startup
[DIRSTUDIO-440] - Multiple user permissions precedence issue
[DIRSTUDIO-442] - Typo in a warning of the New ObjectClass wizard
('attribute type' instead of 'object class')
[DIRSTUDIO-456] - Cannot create an entry with mandatory binary attribute
[DIRSTUDIO-457] - Unknown schema causes attributes to be treated as operational
[DIRSTUDIO-460] - Pressing 'Enter' in New Entry wizard should edit the attribute
[DIRSTUDIO-463] - Browsing the directory produce too many search requests
[DIRSTUDIO-465] - Context entry created from an LDIF import is not
shown in the Browser view
[DIRSTUDIO-466] - Incorrect error message when importing a bad XML schema file
[DIRSTUDIO-468] - The LDIF parser does not correctly parse changes
[DIRSTUDIO-469] - Added wrong AttributeTypes can't be deleted
[DIRSTUDIO-470] - Schema Browser view is not bring to front when using
the 'Open Schema Browser' menu item while the view is already opened
but not the frontmost view
[DIRSTUDIO-472] - SWTException (Widget is disposed) when disabling DIT
Quick Search

Improvement
[DIRSTUDIO-115] - Unable to edit operational attribute values
[DIRSTUDIO-150] - Improve error handling
[DIRSTUDIO-207] - Operationnal attributes cannot be shown entirely
[DIRSTUDIO-234] - Greyed out menu items should have a tool tip
explaining *why* they're greyed out
[DIRSTUDIO-241] - The "New Value" action (in the Entry Editor) should
be disabled if the AT is defined as single valued
[DIRSTUDIO-411] - Select a new created folder in the connection view
[DIRSTUDIO-412] - Add expand all and collapse all actions to the
connections view
[DIRSTUDIO-426] - Overwritten hashCode() method should not use super.hashCode()
[DIRSTUDIO-455] - Cannot copy/past an existing search
[DIRSTUDIO-477] - Update Eclipse dependencies to version 3.4.2
[DIRSTUDIO-478] - The 'Exit' menu item from the 'File' menu should be
removed when running on Mac OS X

New Feature
[DIRSTUDIO-335] - DIT Quick Search
[DIRSTUDIO-397] - Request for multi-language GUI
[DIRSTUDIO-449] - Add a new GeneralizedTime Value Editor
[DIRSTUDIO-474] - Support for parentOfEntry userClass in ACI Editor

Task
[DIRSTUDIO-451] - [I18n] Templates not I18ned in LdifEditor
[DIRSTUDIO-458] - [I18n] Bundle Eclipse language packs
[DIRSTUDIO-480] - Update copyright year in the splash screen to 2009

Wish
[DIRSTUDIO-439] - Ldif importer should be case-insensitive in the
changeType attribute

The Apache Directory Team

The Apache RAT team is proud to announce the availability of Apache RAT 0.6.

RAT (Release Audit Tool) is a tool, which is designed to verify the
compliance with legal policies. A typical use case would be the
presence of license headers in ASF projects.

RAT was initially developed as a Google project (see
http://code.google.com/p/arat/), but is now incubating as an Apache
project: This is the first version using the org.apache package
structure and related names. RAT users are strongly encouraged to
migrate, as the old Google version will no longer be maintained.

Disclaimer: Apache RAT is an effort undergoing incubation at The
Apache Software Foundation (ASF),  sponsored by the Incubator PMC.
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.

The RAT distribution is available at

  http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/incubator/rat

The RAT web site is at

  http://incubator.apache.org/rat/

The RAT source code repository is at

  http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/rat/main/

For questions, please contact the RAT developers mailing list at

  rat-dev@incubator.apache.org

The Apache Lucene project is pleased to announce the release of Apache Mahout 0.1.
Apache Mahout is a subproject of Apache Lucene with the goal of delivering scalable
machine learning algorithm implementations under the Apache license.  The first public
release includes implementations for clustering, classification,
collaborative filtering and evolutionary programming.

Highlights include:
1. Taste Collaborative Filtering
2. Several distributed clustering implementations: k-Means, Fuzzy k-Means, Dirchlet, Mean-Shift and Canopy
3. Distributed Naive Bayes and Complementary Naive Bayes classification implementations
4. Distributed fitness function implementation for the Watchmaker evolutionary programming library
5.  Most implementations are built on top of Apache Hadoop (http://hadoop.apache.org) for scalability

The release contents have been pushed out to the main Apache release
site and the m2 ibiblio sync repository.

Apache Mahout 0.1 is the project's first release and is focused on establishing a baseline release while
attracting more contributors. Details can
be found in JIRA:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310751&styleName=Html&version=12312976

Apache Mahout is available in source form from the following download page:
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/mahout/0.1/mahout-0.1-project.tar.gz

Apache Mahout is also available for Maven 2 users via
the Central Maven Repositories:
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/mahout/
http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/maven2/org/apache/mahout/

When downloading from a mirror site, please remember to verify the downloads
using signatures found on the Apache site:
http://www.apache.org/dist/lucene/mahout/KEYS

For more information on Apache Mahout, visit the project home page:
http://lucene.apache.org/mahout