The Apache Software Foundation

The Apache Wicket project is proud to announce the release of Apache Wicket 1.4. Apache Wicket is an open source, component oriented Java web application framework. With overwhelming support from the user community, this release marks a departure from the past where we leave Java 1.4 behind and we require Java 5 as the minimum JDK version. By moving to Java 5 as the required minimum platform, we were able to utilize Java 5 idioms and increase the type safety of our APIs. Using Java generics you can now write typesafe web applications and create typesafe, self documenting, reusable custom components.

The full announcement for this release can be found here:
http://wicket.apache.org/apache-wicket-14-takes-type-safety-to-the-next-level.html

Download Apache Wicket 1.4

You can download the release here:
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/wicket/1.4.0

Or use this in your Maven pom’s to upgrade to the new version:

<dependency>
   <groupId>org.apache.wicket</groupId>
   <artifactId>wicket</artifactId>
   <version>1.4.0</version>
</dependency>

You will need to upgrade all modules (i.e. wicket, wicket-extensions) to their 1.4 counterparts. It is not possible to mix Wicket 1.3 libraries with 1.4 libraries due to API changes.

Most notable changes

From all the changes that went into this release, the following are the most important ones:

• Generified IModel interface and implementations increases type safety in your Wicket applications
• Component#getModel() and Component#setModel() have been renamed to getDefaultModel() and setDefaultModel() to better support generified models
• The Spring modules have been merged (wicket-spring-annot is now obsolete, all you need is wicket-spring)
• Many API’s have been altered to better work with Java 5’s idioms
• Wicket jars are now packaged with metadata that makes them OSGI bundles

Apart from these changes, the release is mostly compatible with Wicket 1.3 and upgrading shouldn’t take too long. Early adopters report about a days work to upgrade medium to large applications to Wicket 1.4.
Read the migration guide to learn more about the changes in our APIs. To learn more about all the improvements and new features that went into this release, check the solved issue list in our JIRA instance.

If you want to learn more about this release, please refer to the full release announcement:
http://wicket.apache.org/apache-wicket-14-takes-type-safety-to-the-next-level.html

The Apache Wicket team is proud to present the release of Apache Wicket 1.3.7.

This will be the last feature release for the 1.3.x branch. Going forward, only security fixes will be released in the 1.3.x branch - meaning that 1.3.7 may be the last release in this branch. All users are encouraged to upgrade to 1.4.0 as soon as possible. As work begins on 1.5 in the near future, we will be supporting 1.4.x and 1.5.x.

Eager people click here to download the distribution, others can read further:

* http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/wicket/1.3.7

We thank you for your patience and support
 -= The Wicket Team =-

The Apache Lucene project is pleased to announce the release of Apache Tika 0.4. The release contents have been pushed out to the main Apache release site and the m2 ibiblio sync, so the releases should be available as soon as the mirrors get the syncs.

Apache Tika, a subproject of Apache Lucene, is a toolkit for detecting and extracting metadata and structured text content from various documents using existing parser libraries.

Apache Tika 0.4 contains a number of improvements and bug fixes. Details can be found in the changes file:

http://www.apache.org/dist/lucene/tika/CHANGES-0.4.txt

Apache Tika is available in source form from the following download page:
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/tika/apache-tika-0.4-src.tar.gz

Apache Tika is also available in binary form or for use using Maven 2 from the Central Maven Repositories:
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/tika/
http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/maven2/org/apache/tika/

In the initial 48 hours, the release may not be available on all mirrors.
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/tika/KEYS

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

-- Chris Mattmann (on behalf of the Apache Lucene community)

The Apache Tuscany team are pleased to announce the third milestone release of the Tuscany SCA 2.0 project.

Apache Tuscany provides a runtime environment based on the Service Component Architecture (SCA) which are a set of specifications aimed at simplifying SOA application development. The first SCA specifications where published by the Open SOA Collaboration group (www.osoa.org) and are  implemented in the Tuscany 1.x runtime, the specification are now being standardized at OASIS as part of the Open Composite Services Architecture (Open CSA) and these are the basis of this new Tuscany 2.x runtime.

The main features of this third milestone release are new support for the BPEL and Spring specifications, support for ZIP format contributions, and a new easy to install SCA runtime for Apache
Tomcat. See the RELEASE_NOTES and CHANGES file for more details about the M3 release, and to download the distributions please go to:

http://tuscany.apache.org/sca-java-releases.html

To find out more about OASIS Open CSA go to:

http://www.oasis-opencsa.org

Apache Tuscany welcomes your help. Any contribution, including code, testing, contributions to the documentation, or bug reporting is always appreciated. For more information on how to get involved in
Apache Tuscany visit the website at:

http://tuscany.apache.org

Thank you for your interest in Apache Tuscany!

Two announcements regarding the upcoming ApacheCon US 2009:

(Applicants will be informed of their status within two weeks of application closing date.)