The Apache Software Foundation

The Apache Velocity Team announces the availability of the of Apache Velocity Engine 1.6.4. This is only a bugfix release and contains no new features.  We recommend all 1.6.x users upgrade to this release.

The change log is here:
http://velocity.apache.org/engine/releases/velocity-1.6.4/changes-report.html

Apache Velocity 1.6.4 can be downloaded here:
http://velocity.apache.org/download.cgi

Documentation for Engine1.6.4 can be found here:
http://velocity.apache.org/engine/releases/velocity-1.6.4/

For the Apache Velocity Team

We are pleased to announce that Apache Traffic Server 2.1.0-unstable is now available.  Apache Traffic Server™ is fast, scalable and extensible HTTP/1.1 compliant caching proxy server. Handing over 400TB a day at Yahoo! both as forward and reverse proxies, Apache Traffic Server is battle hardened.

http://trafficserver.apache.org/

Download from http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/trafficserver/

This is an unstable release from the development line so all issues reported will be fixed in the trunk.  That said, 2.1.0-unstable brings a number of features and performance improvements including support for FreeBSD, MacOSX and Solaris, improved cache seek/write efficiency and dramatically reduced miss latency.

The Apache ZooKeeper team is proud to announce Apache ZooKeeper version 3.3.1

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.

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

ZooKeeper 3.3.1 Release Notes are at:
http://hadoop.apache.org/zookeeper/docs/r3.3.1/releasenotes.html

Regards,

The ZooKeeper Team

The Travel Assistance Committee is now taking in applications for those wanting to attend ApacheCon North America (NA) 2010, which is taking place between the 1st and 5th November in Atlanta.

The Travel Assistance Committee is looking for people who would like to be able to attend ApacheCon, but who need some financial support in order to be able to get there. There are limited places available, and all applications will be scored on their individual merit.

Financial assistance is available to cover travel, accommodation and entrance to the event, either in part or in full, depending on circumstances. However, the support available for those attending only the barcamp is smaller than that for people attending the whole event. The Travel Assistance Committee aims to support all ApacheCons, and cross-project events, and so it may be prudent for those in Asia and the EU to wait for an event closer to them.

More information can be found on the main Apache website at http://www.apache.org/travel/index.html - where you will also find a link to the online application and details for submitting.

Applications for applying for travel assistance are now being accepted, and will close on the 7th July 2010.

Good luck to all those that will apply.

You are welcome to tweet, blog as appropriate.

Regards,
The Travel Assistance Committee.

The Apache Empire-db team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Empire-db version 2.0.6-incubating.
Apache Empire-db is a lightweight data access and persistence component for relational databases based on JDBC.

http://incubator.apache.org/empire-db

These are the major change from our previous 2.0.5-incubating release:

- Code-Generator allows generation of Data Model code files for existing databases
- Maven plugin for DB-Code-Generator
- New example to demonstrate interoperability between Empire-db and Spring
- Provided jars are now OSGi compatible

For the full list of changes see:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/empire-db/tags/apache-empire-db-2.0.6-incubating-rc4/CHANGELOG.txt?view=co

Download the release here:
http://incubator.apache.org/empire-db/downloads/latest.htm

Thank you for your interest in Apache Empire-db!

The Apache Empire-db Team.