The Apache Software Foundation

The Apache CXF team is proud to announce the availability of the 2.2.2 patch release!

This is mostly a patch release to fix problems and issues that users have encountered with 2.2.1 resolving 23 JIRA items.    However, this release is also the first release to pass the JAX-RS 1.0 TCK thus providing a complete JAX-RS 1.0 implementation.

Apache CXF is an open source services framework. CXF helps you build and develop services using front end programming APIs, like JAX-WS and JAX-RS.
These services can speak a variety of protocols such as SOAP, XML/HTTP, RESTful HTTP, or CORBA and work over a variety of transports such as HTTP, JMS or JBI.

For more information see:
* Download: http://cxf.apache.org/download.html
* Website: http://cxf.apache.org/
* Mailing lists: http://cxf.apache.org/mailing-lists.html

If you have feedback, questions or would like to get involved in the CXF project please join the mailing lists and let us know your thoughts.

The Apache CXF Team
http://cxf.apache.org/

The Apache Archiva team is pleased to announce the release of Archiva 1.2.1

Apache Archiva is an extensible repository management software that helps taking care of your own personal or enterprise-wide build artifact repository. It is the perfect companion for build tools such as Maven, Continuum, and ANT.

Archiva offers several capabilities, amongst which remote repository proxying, security access management, build artifact storage, delivery, browsing, indexing and usage reporting, extensible scanning functionality... and many more!

The latest release is now available here:
http://archiva.apache.org/download.html

If you have any questions, please consult:
  - the web site: http://archiva.apache.org
  - the archiva-user mailing list: http://archiva.apache.org/mail-lists.html

Change Log for Archiva 1.2.1
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** Bug

• [MRM-1143] - Nexus indexer throws NPE on repository scan
• [MRM-1157] - Update from 1.1.3 to 1.2 fails with create table error
• [MRM-1160] - Nexus Indexer throws NPE intermittently on retrieval
• [MRM-1161] - indexing causes NullPointer when getting a SNAPSHOT that has been deployed with maven 2.1
• [MRM-1167] - Quicksearch from the xmlrpc api returns no results
• [MRM-1172] - Invalid version validation error when uploading a jar with a four-part version number
• [MRM-1176] - SQLSyntaxErrorException is thrown when browsing for artifacts after upgrading from 1.3.1 to 1.2
• [MRM-1179] - NPE retrieving artifacts via http/webdav that are proxied
• [MRM-1188] - Index cleanup consumer fails when there is a current indexing task being executed (e.g. during repo scan, during artifact deployment or during proxy)

** Improvement

• [MRM-1165] - Move out upgrade instructions from 'Installing Standalone' into it's own page

Thanks,
The Apache Archiva team

The Apache Portals team is proud to announce the major release of a suite of new Portal projects, all aligned to the new Portlet API 2.0 specification (JSR-286):

• Version 2.2.0 of the Jetspeed Enterprise Portal
• Version 2.0.0 of the Pluto Container
• Version 1.0 of several new Portals Applications

More information about the Apache Portals Project itself and its projects can be found here:

http://portals.apache.org
http://portals.apache.org/jetspeed-2
http://portals.apache.org/pluto
http://portals.apache.org/applications

Jetspeed is an Open Portal Platform and Enterprise Portal, written in open source to the Java Portlet API standard under the Apache license. Version 2.2.0 is a major update from the 2.1.3 release.
New Features and improvements in Version 2.2.0:

• Portlet API 2.0 Support and Compliance
• Inter-Portlet Communication via Events
• New High Speed Preferences Database Storage
• New Extensible Security Model with LDAP Synchronization
• Improved Documentation including 5 New Guides (Users Guide, Admin Guide, Developers Guide, Build Guide, Deploy Guide)
• New Improved Administrative Portlets
• New Skins
• New Maven-2 Custom Build
• Improved integration support for popular web development frameworks like Wicket, Spring MVC, JSF, and Struts

Full details can be found in the Jetspeed 2.2.0 release notes:
http://portals.apache.org/jetspeed-2/release-notes.html

A demo of Jetspeed is running live at Apache Zones. Login with username/password admin/j2:
http://portals.zones.apache.org/jetspeed/portal/
http://portals.zones.apache.org/jetspeed/desktop/

Pluto Container is the Reference Implementation of th Java Portlet Specifications 1.0 and 2.0.
Pluto 2.0.0 is fully compliant with the latest 2.0 specification, also known as JSR-286, as well as the 1.0 specification, known as JSR-168.

Full details can be found in the Pluto 2.0.0 release notes:
http://portals.apache.org/pluto/v20/release-notes.html

Apache Portals Applications (APA) is a new collaborative software development project existing under the Apache Portals project. APA is dedicated to providing robust, full-featured, commercial-quality, and freely available Portlet Applications under the Apache license developed at the Apache Software Foundation. The APA project releases 1.0 versions of the following Portlet Applications and components, all targetted at the Portlet Specification 2.0 (JR-286):

• Gems - A collection of reusable portlets including Flash, Google Maps, File, Event and Browser portlets.
• Database Browser - A portlet application dedicated to the development and database portlet development including scrollable lists and data entry forms
• Demo - A portlet application dedicated to learning Java and Groovy portlet programming and tutorials, as well as some helpful weather and bookmark portlets
• RSS - A portlet application dedicated to the development of RSS portlet features
• Web Content - A portlet application dedicated to the development of Web Content rewriting and IFrame based web content.
• Logging - Apache Portals Applications Logging, (APA Logging), is a utility library used to setup and deploy logging to portlet applications

Source and binary distributions, including standard and full demo installers for Jetspeed-2 Portal, are available from:

http://portals.apache.org/jetspeed-2/download.html
http://portals.apache.org/pluto/download.html
http://portals.apache.org/applications/download.html

Validating the release

The release has been signed by Vivek Kumar, Carsten Ziegeler, and David Taylor, the release managers for this release. The public key can be found in the KEYS file in the download
area. Download the KEYS file only from the Apache website.

http://www.apache.org/dist/portals/jetspeed-2/KEYS
http://www.apache.org/dist/portals/pluto/KEYS
http://www.apache.org/dist/portals/applications/KEYS

Instructions on how to validate the release can be found here:
http://www.apache.org/dev/release-signing.html#check-integrity

Reporting Issues

In case you encounter an issue, we would appreciate if you can report it through our issue tracking system:
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JS2
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PLUTO
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/APA

We hope you enjoy using Apache Portals! If you have any questions, please consult:

• The web site: http://portals.apache.org/
• The  mailing lists: http://portals.apache.org/mail-lists.html

David Sean Taylor
On behalf of the Apache Portals Team