The Apache Software Foundation

The Apache Directory Team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Directory Studio 1.4.0, a new major update of its Eclipse based LDAP Browser and Directory client.

You can download Apache Directory Studio 1.4.0 as a standalone RCP application for Mac OS X, Linux and Windows here:
  http://directory.apache.org/studio/downloads.html

You can install it directly in Eclipse using this update site:
  http://directory.apache.org/studio/update/1.x/

Developed as a sub-project of the Directory Top Level Project, Apache Directory Studio is an Eclipse RCP application that takes full advantage of the benefits inherent in the Eclipse platform. Composed
of several Eclipse (OSGi) plugins, Apache Directory Studio can be easily upgraded with additional plugins. Apache Directory Studio plugins can even run within a full installation of Eclipse itself.

For more information about Apache Directory Studio, see our website:
  http://directory.apache.org/studio

Below are the JIRA issues that were resolved since the release of Apache Directory Studio 1.3.0:

Bug
[DIRSTUDIO-373] - Can't delete a tagged attribute if the non tagged
attribute belong to the DN
[DIRSTUDIO-395] - Problems with special chars (german Umlauts)
[DIRSTUDIO-396] - Custom LDAP attributes not shown in entry editor
[DIRSTUDIO-419] - Problems switching between connections
[DIRSTUDIO-420] - Unable to locate in DIT (f3)
[DIRSTUDIO-423] - Outline view does not respect the settings of the
Entry Editor on displaying or not the operational attributes
[DIRSTUDIO-427] - Operational attributes turned on by itself
[DIRSTUDIO-430] - NullPointer exception when fetching children of a node
[DIRSTUDIO-436] - Eclipse Hangs on Startup
[DIRSTUDIO-440] - Multiple user permissions precedence issue
[DIRSTUDIO-442] - Typo in a warning of the New ObjectClass wizard
('attribute type' instead of 'object class')
[DIRSTUDIO-456] - Cannot create an entry with mandatory binary attribute
[DIRSTUDIO-457] - Unknown schema causes attributes to be treated as operational
[DIRSTUDIO-460] - Pressing 'Enter' in New Entry wizard should edit the attribute
[DIRSTUDIO-463] - Browsing the directory produce too many search requests
[DIRSTUDIO-465] - Context entry created from an LDIF import is not
shown in the Browser view
[DIRSTUDIO-466] - Incorrect error message when importing a bad XML schema file
[DIRSTUDIO-468] - The LDIF parser does not correctly parse changes
[DIRSTUDIO-469] - Added wrong AttributeTypes can't be deleted
[DIRSTUDIO-470] - Schema Browser view is not bring to front when using
the 'Open Schema Browser' menu item while the view is already opened
but not the frontmost view
[DIRSTUDIO-472] - SWTException (Widget is disposed) when disabling DIT
Quick Search

Improvement
[DIRSTUDIO-115] - Unable to edit operational attribute values
[DIRSTUDIO-150] - Improve error handling
[DIRSTUDIO-207] - Operationnal attributes cannot be shown entirely
[DIRSTUDIO-234] - Greyed out menu items should have a tool tip
explaining *why* they're greyed out
[DIRSTUDIO-241] - The "New Value" action (in the Entry Editor) should
be disabled if the AT is defined as single valued
[DIRSTUDIO-411] - Select a new created folder in the connection view
[DIRSTUDIO-412] - Add expand all and collapse all actions to the
connections view
[DIRSTUDIO-426] - Overwritten hashCode() method should not use super.hashCode()
[DIRSTUDIO-455] - Cannot copy/past an existing search
[DIRSTUDIO-477] - Update Eclipse dependencies to version 3.4.2
[DIRSTUDIO-478] - The 'Exit' menu item from the 'File' menu should be
removed when running on Mac OS X

New Feature
[DIRSTUDIO-335] - DIT Quick Search
[DIRSTUDIO-397] - Request for multi-language GUI
[DIRSTUDIO-449] - Add a new GeneralizedTime Value Editor
[DIRSTUDIO-474] - Support for parentOfEntry userClass in ACI Editor

Task
[DIRSTUDIO-451] - [I18n] Templates not I18ned in LdifEditor
[DIRSTUDIO-458] - [I18n] Bundle Eclipse language packs
[DIRSTUDIO-480] - Update copyright year in the splash screen to 2009

Wish
[DIRSTUDIO-439] - Ldif importer should be case-insensitive in the
changeType attribute

The Apache Directory Team

The Apache RAT team is proud to announce the availability of Apache RAT 0.6.

RAT (Release Audit Tool) is a tool, which is designed to verify the
compliance with legal policies. A typical use case would be the
presence of license headers in ASF projects.

RAT was initially developed as a Google project (see
http://code.google.com/p/arat/), but is now incubating as an Apache
project: This is the first version using the org.apache package
structure and related names. RAT users are strongly encouraged to
migrate, as the old Google version will no longer be maintained.

Disclaimer: Apache RAT is an effort undergoing incubation at The
Apache Software Foundation (ASF),  sponsored by the Incubator PMC.
Incubation is required of all newly accepted projects  until a further
review indicates that the infrastructure, communications, and decision
 making process have stabilized in a manner consistent with other
successful ASF projects. While incubation status is not necessarily a
reflection of the completeness or stability  of the code, it does
indicate that the project has yet to be fully endorsed by the ASF.

The RAT distribution is available at

  http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/incubator/rat

The RAT web site is at

  http://incubator.apache.org/rat/

The RAT source code repository is at

  http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/rat/main/

For questions, please contact the RAT developers mailing list at

  rat-dev@incubator.apache.org

The Apache Lucene project is pleased to announce the release of Apache Mahout 0.1.
Apache Mahout is a subproject of Apache Lucene with the goal of delivering scalable
machine learning algorithm implementations under the Apache license.  The first public
release includes implementations for clustering, classification,
collaborative filtering and evolutionary programming.

Highlights include:
1. Taste Collaborative Filtering
2. Several distributed clustering implementations: k-Means, Fuzzy k-Means, Dirchlet, Mean-Shift and Canopy
3. Distributed Naive Bayes and Complementary Naive Bayes classification implementations
4. Distributed fitness function implementation for the Watchmaker evolutionary programming library
5.  Most implementations are built on top of Apache Hadoop (http://hadoop.apache.org) for scalability

The release contents have been pushed out to the main Apache release
site and the m2 ibiblio sync repository.

Apache Mahout 0.1 is the project's first release and is focused on establishing a baseline release while
attracting more contributors. Details can
be found in JIRA:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310751&styleName=Html&version=12312976

Apache Mahout is available in source form from the following download page:
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/mahout/0.1/mahout-0.1-project.tar.gz

Apache Mahout is also available for Maven 2 users via
the Central Maven Repositories:
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/mahout/
http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/maven2/org/apache/mahout/

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/mahout/KEYS

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

The Apache Jackrabbit community is pleased to announce the release of
Apache Jackrabbit version 1.5.4. The release is available for download
at:

   http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html

See the full release notes below for details about this release.

Release Notes -- Apache Jackrabbit -- Version 1.5.4

Introduction
------------

Apache Jackrabbit is a fully conforming implementation of the Content
Repository for Java Technology API (JCR). A content repository is a
hierarchical content store with support for structured and unstructured
content, full text search, versioning, transactions, observation, and
more. See the Jackrabbit web site at http://jackrabbit.apache.org/ for
more information.

Apache Jackrabbit 1.5.4 is a bug fix release that fixes issues reported
against previous releases. This release is fully compatible with the
earlier 1.5.x releases.

See below for a full listing of fixes included in this release.

Changes in this release
-----------------------

All the fixes in this release are listed below per affected component.
The modified components have had their version numbers upgraded to 1.5.4;
other components are still at their previous 1.5.x versions.

jackrabbit-core

 Bug fixes
 [JCR-2000] Deadlock on concurrent commits
 [JCR-2008] System search manager uses a SessionItemStateManager
 [JCR-2023] WorkspaceInfo.dispose() does not deregister ...
 [JCR-2024] Bundle cache is not cleared when *BundlePersistenceManager ...

You can look up individual issues for more details in the Jackrabbit
issue tracker at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCR.

Contributors
------------

The following people have contributed to this release by submitting bug
reports or by participating in the issue resolution process.

   Jukka Zitting         Marcel Reutegger      Przemo Pakulski

Thank you to everyone involved!

Release Contents
----------------

This release consists of a single source archive (jackrabbit-1.5.4-src.jar)
that contains all the Apache Jackrabbit components. Use the following
commands (or the equivalent in your system) to build the release with
Maven 2 and Java 1.4 or higher:

   jar xf jackrabbit-1.5.4-src.jar
   cd jackrabbit-1.5.4-src
   mvn install

Note that the OCM components require Java 5 or higher, and are not included
in the build when using Java 1.4.

The source archive is accompanied by SHA1 and MD5 checksums and a PGP
signature that you can use to verify the authenticity of your download.
The public key used for the PGP signature can be found at
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jackrabbit/dist/KEYS.

The build will result in the following components (with artifactIds in
parenthesis) being built and installed in your local Maven repository.
Pre-built binary artifacts of these components are also available on
the on the central Maven repository.

 * Jackrabbit Parent POM (jackrabbit-parent)
   The Maven parent POM for all Jackrabbit components.

 * Jackrabbit API (jackrabbit-api)
   Interface extensions that Apache Jackrabbit supports in
   addition to the standard JCR API.

 * Jackrabbit JCR Commons (jackrabbit-jcr-commons)
   General-purpose classes for use with the JCR API.

 * Jackrabbit JCR Tests (jackrabbit-jcr-tests)
   Set of JCR API test cases designed for testing the compliance
   of an implementation. Note that this is not the official JCR TCK!

 * Jackrabbit JCR Benchmarks (jackrabbit-jcr-benchmark)
   Framework for JCR performance tests.

 * Jackrabbit Core (jackrabbit-core)
   Core of the Apache Jackrabbit content repository implementation.

 * Jackrabbit Text Extractors (jackrabbit-text-extractors)
   Text extractor classes that allow Jackrabbit to extract text content
   from binary properties for full text indexing.

 * Jackrabbit JCR-RMI (jackrabbit-jcr-rmi)
   RMI remoting layer for the JCR API.

 * Jackrabbit WebDAV Library (jackrabbit-webdav)
   Interfaces and common utility classes used for building a
   WebDAV server or client.

 * Jackrabbit JCR Server (jackrabbit-jcr-server)
   WebDAV servlet implementations based on JCR.

 * Jackrabbit JCR Servlets (jackrabbit-jcr-servlet)
   Set of servlets and other classes designed to make it easier to use
   Jackrabbit and other JCR content repositories in web applications.

 * Jackrabbit Repository Classloader (jackrabbit-classloader)
   Java classloader for loading classes from JCR content repositories.

 * Jackrabbit Web Application (jackrabbit-webapp)
   Deployable Jackrabbit installation with WebDAV support for JCR.

 * Jackrabbit JCA Resource Adapter (jackrabbit-jca)
   J2EE Connector Architecture (JCA) resource adapter for Jackrabbit.

 * Jackrabbit SPI (jackrabbit-spi)
   The SPI defines a layer within a JSR-170 implementation that separates
   the transient space from the persistent layer.

 * Jackrabbit SPI Commons (jackrabbit-spi-commons)
   This component contains generic utility classes that might be used
   to build an SPI implementation.

 * Jackrabbit SPI2JCR (jackrabbit-spi2jcr)
   This component contains a SPI implementation wrapping around an
   implementation of JSR-170.

 * Jackrabbit JCR2SPI (jackrabbit-jcr2spi)
   This component contains an implementation of the JSR-170 API and
   covers the functionality that is not delegated to the SPI
   implementation.

 * Jackrabbit Standalone (jackrabbit-standalone)
   Jackrabbit server in a self-contained runnable jar.

 * Jackrabbit OCM (jackrabbit-ocm)
   Object-Content mapping tool for persisting and accessing Java objects
   in a JCR content repository.

 * Jackrabbit OCM Node Management (jackrabbit-ocm-nodemanagement)
   This component simplifies registration of node types and namespaces
   referenced in OCM mapping descriptors.

Mar 30, 2009 - The Ivy project is pleased to announce its 2.1.0-rc1 release.
This is the first candidate release of Ivy 2.1.0.

Ivy is a tool for managing (recording, tracking, resolving and
reporting) project dependencies, characterized by flexibility,
configurability, and tight integration with Apache Ant.

This is a release candidate for 2.1.0 final, meaning that no changes except bug fixes will occur between this release candidate and 2.1.0 final.
Problems found at this phase can be fixed in the final release, so now is a good time to download and use it. If no outstanding bugs are reported
in the coming weeks, this release candidate will be promoted as the 2.1.0 final release.

Key features of the 2.1.0 release are
* enhanced Maven2 compatibility, with several bug fixes and more
 pom features covered
* new options for the Ivy Ant tasks and commandline
* numerous bug fixes as documented in Jira and in the release notes

We encourage all users of Ivy to update to this new version.

Issues should be reported to:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY

Download the 2.1.0-rc1 release at:
http://ant.apache.org/ivy/download.cgi

More information can be found on the Ivy website:
http://ant.apache.org/ivy/