The Apache Software Foundation

The Apache James team is pleased to announce the first release of the Apache James Mail Protocol Tester (MPT) - a scriptable functional test tool particularly suitable for the ASCII protocols beloved by mail standards which may also be more widely useful. It is available for download now and from the standard Maven repositories.

For more information see the release notes [2] and the release documentation[3].

Robert

[1] http://james.apache.org/download.cgi
[2] http://james.apache.org/mpt/0.1/release-notes.html
[3] http://james.apache.org/mpt/0.1/

The Apache ZooKeeper team is proud to announce Apache ZooKeeper version 3.2.0.

ZooKeeper is a high-performance coordination service for distributed applications. It exposes common services - such as naming, configuration management, synchronization, and group services - in a simple interface so you don't have to write them from scratch. You can use it off-the-shelf to implement consensus, group management, leader election, and presence protocols. And you can build on it for your own, specific needs.

Key features of the 3.2.0 release:
* client side bindings for; Perl, Python, & REST
* flexible quorum support
* re-usable recipe code libraries
* chroot support in connect string
* many fixes, improvements, improved documentation, etc...

A number of optimizations have gone into this release and our benchmarks show that read/write performance of version 3.2.0 is approximately twice that of the previous 3.1.0 version!

For ZooKeeper release details and downloads, visit:
http://hadoop.apache.org/zookeeper/releases.html

ZooKeeper 3.2.0 Release Notes are at:
http://hadoop.apache.org/zookeeper/docs/r3.2.0/releasenotes.html

Regards,

The ZooKeeper Team