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The Apache Commons team is pleased to announce the release of version 2.0 of Commons Math.  Commons Math is a library of lightweight, self-contained mathematics and statistics components addressing the most common problems not available in the Java programming language or Commons Lang.

Version 2.0 is a major release, including bug fixes, new features and enhancements to existing features.  Most notable among the new features are matrix decomposition algorithms, sparse matrices and vectors, genetic algorithms, new optimization algorithms, curve fitting algorithms,  state derivatives in ODE step handlers,  new multistep integrators,  multiple regression, correlation, rank transformations and Mersenne twister pseudo random number generator.

This release is NOT source and binary compatible with earlier versions of Commons Math.  Starting with version 2.0 of the  library, the minimal version of the Java platform required to compile and use commons-math is Java 5.
Source and binary distributions are available for download from the Apache Commons Math download site:
http://commons.apache.org/downloads/download_math.cgi

Please verify signatures using the KEYS file available at the above location when downloading the release.

Maven users please note that the maven repository groupId for Commons Math has changed in version 2.0 to "org.apache.commons."  The artifactId remains "commons-math."

For more information on Apache Commons Math, visit the Math home page:
http://commons.apache.org/math/

Feedback, suggestions for improvment or bug reports are welcome via the "Mailing Lists" and "Issue Tracking" links here:
http://commons.apache.org/math/project-info.html

Phil Steitz
- On behalf of the Apache Commons community

Hi,

I'm pleased to announce the release of ODE 1.3.3, a security release of Apache ODE. It fixes a vulnerability in the process deployment that allowed, using a forged message, to create, overwrite or delete files on the server file system. See the full vulnerability announcement below.

Apache ODE is a WS-BPEL compliant web service 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.

This new release also includes new features, bug fixes and improvements See the release notes for an exhaustive list for details.

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 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

Thank you,
The Apache ODE Team