The Apache Software Foundation

The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven Repository Plugin, version 2.3

This plugin assists the user in creating archived bundles that are designed to meet all requirements for upload to the central Maven repository.

http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-repository-plugin/

You should specify the version in your project's plugin configuration:

<plugin>
 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
 <artifactId>maven-repository-plugin</artifactId>
 <version>2.3</version>
</plugin>

Release Notes - Maven 2.x Repository Plugin - Version 2.3

Enjoy,

-The Maven team

The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven Resources Plugin, version 2.4.1

This plugin filters non-Java resource files, replacing expressions with values from the POM or any of the filtering properties files you choose to configure.

http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-resources-plugin/

You should specify the version in your project's plugin configuration:

<plugin>
 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
 <artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
 <version>2.4.1</version>
</plugin>

Release Notes - Maven 2.x Resources Plugin - Version 2.4.1

Enjoy,
-The Maven team

The Apache Software Foundation and the Apache HTTP Server Project are pleased to announce the release of version 2.2.14 of the Apache HTTP Server ("Apache").  This version of Apache is principally a security and bug fix release.  Notably, this version bundles the APR Library version 1.3.9, which addresses a security concern with the Prefork and Event MPMs on Solaris 10.

  We consider this release to be the best version of Apache available, and encourage users of all prior versions to upgrade.

  Apache HTTP Server 2.2.14 is available for download from:

    http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi

  Apache 2.2 offers numerous enhancements, improvements, and performance boosts over the 2.0 codebase.  For an overview of new features introduced since 2.0 please see:

    http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/new_features_2_2.html

  Please see the CHANGES_2.2 file, linked from the download page, for a full list of changes.  A condensed list, CHANGES_2.2.14 provides the complete list of changes since 2.2.14. A summary of security vulnerabilities which were addressed in the previous 2.2.13 and earlier releases is available:

    http://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_22.html

  Apache HTTP Server 1.3.41 and 2.0.63 legacy releases are also currently available.  See the appropriate CHANGES from the url above.
  See the corresponding CHANGES files linked from the download page.
  The Apache HTTP Project developers strongly encourage all users tomigrate to Apache 2.2, as only limited maintenance is performed on these legacy versions.

  This release includes the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) version 1.3.9 bundled with the tar and zip distributions.  The APR libraries libapr and libaprutil (and on Win32, libapriconv) must all be updated to ensure binary compatibility and address many known security and platform bugs.

  This release builds on and extends the Apache 2.0 API.  Modules written for Apache 2.0 will need to be recompiled in order to run with Apache 2.2, and require minimal or no source code changes.

    http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/branches/2.2.x/VERSIONING

  When upgrading or installing this version of Apache, please bear in mind that if you intend to use Apache with one of the threaded MPMs (other than the Prefork MPM), you must ensure that any modules you will be using (and the libraries they depend on) are thread-safe.

The Felix team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Felix Web Console version 2.0.0.

The Apache Felix Web Console is a Web Based Management Console for OSGi Frameworks. See http://felix.apache.org/apache-felix-web-console.html for more information on the Apache Felix Web Console.

The major theme of this release is support for branding (FELIX-1015).
Another important aspect is that plugins do not need to extend from AbstractWebConsolePlugin anymore to have the common header and footer rendered (FELIX-1013).

This release is available from
http://felix.apache.org/site/downloads.cgi and Maven:

 <dependency>
   <groupId>org.apache.felix</groupId>
   <artifactId>org.apache.felix.webconsole</artifactId>
   <version>2.0.0</version>
 </dependency>

Release Notes:

Enjoy!
-The Felix team

The Felix team is pleased to announce the release of Felix Karaf version 1.0.0

This release along with the associated release notes and change log are available from
 http://felix.apache.org/site/karaf-100.html

Apache Felix Karaf is a small OSGi based runtime which provides a lightweight container onto which various components and applications can be deployed.

Karaf features:

  *  Hot deployment: Karaf supports hot deployment of OSGi bundles by monitoring jar files inside the [home]/deploy directory. Each time a jar is copied in this folder, it will be installed inside the runtime. You can then update or delete it and changes will be handled automatically. In addition, the Karaf also supports exploded bundles and custom deployers (blueprint and spring ones are included by
default).

  * Dynamic configuration: Services are usually configured through the ConfigurationAdmin OSGi service. Such configuration can be defined in Karaf using property files inside the [home]/etc directory. These configurations are monitored and changes on the properties files will be propagated to the services.

  * Logging System: using a centralized logging back end supported by Log4J, Karaf supports a number of different APIs (JDK 1.4, JCL, SLF4J, Avalon, Tomcat, OSGi)

  * Provisioning: Provisioning of libraries or applications can be done through a number of different ways, by which they will be downloaded locally, installed and started.

  * Native OS integration: Karaf can be integrated into your own Operating System as a service so that the lifecycle will be bound to your Operating System.

  * Extensible Shell console: Karaf features a nice text console where you can manage the services, install new applications or libraries and manage their state. This shell is easily extensible by
deploying new commands dynamically along with new features or applications.

  * Remote access: use any SSH client to connect to Karaf and issue commands in the console

  * Security framework based on JAAS

  * Managing instances: Karaf provides simple commands for managing multiple instances. You can easily create, delete, start and stop instances of Karaf through the console.

  * Supports the latest OSGi 4.2 containers: Apache Felix Framework 2.0.0 and Eclipse Equinox 3.5

Enjoy!

-The Felix team