The Apache Excalibur community is pleased to announce the immediate
availability of its latest release, codename "r508111-20070215".
The release can be downloaded at:
http://excalibur.apache.org/download.cgi
Excalibur-r508111-20070215 release notes
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This is a backwards-compatible maintainance release of all maintained
excalibur.apache.org
software, including packages formerly part of the avalon.apache.org project:
avalon-framework, avalon-logkit, and avalon-cornerstone.
This is the first set of new excalibur releases since August 29, 2005.
The binary version of the distribution takes the form of a
maven2-structured jar repository.
The main change has been a complete repackaging to work well with
maven2-structured builds.
All version numbers of all components have been bumped significantly to
reflect the new
structure.
Changes not related to the rework to use maven 2:
*
r492442,r492443,r492443,r492447,r492448,r492449,r492451,r492452,r492453,r501342,r501344:
removal of the "Component" marker interface on interfaces inside
excalibur's components
* re-instated excalibur-i18n package
* updated license text and policies to comply with revised ASF
licensing standards
* code reformattings, cleanups, javadoc additions and corrections
* r492440, fix for EXLBR-32, proper closing of URLConnection in
excalibur-sourceresolve
* r468933, fix for EXLBR-31, handle multi-level stylesheet caching in
excalibur-xmlutil
* r467579, more robust dealing with missing classes on default
excalibur-fortress startup
* r437037, reset lexical handler before reusing JAXP parser in
excalibur-xmlutil
* r391887, better debug handling for SMTP targets in excalibur-logger
* r390538, fix broken timeout feature in URLSource in
excalibur-sourceresolve
* r374681, remove call to System.out.println() in JAXP parser in
excalibur-xmlutil
* r366060, make fortress' TestContainer public for external use in
excalibur-fortress
* r359876, improve null handling for logger in metainfo collector in
excalibur-fortress
* r358988,r358989,r358990, fix for FORTRESS-21, maven2 plugin for
metainfo collection
* r330744,r330745,r330799 add more reporting for resource limiting
pools in excalibr-pool
* r280457, add new removeCurrentContext() to ContextMap in avalon-logkit
* r278681,r279496,r279498,r280510,r327966,r329206,r329208,r349071,
extensive rework of
excalibur-instrument, reporting on more details, fixing handling of
null and NPEs,
looking prettier
Security-related changes:
* none
This is the best available release of excalibur software today. We
recommend you upgrade if
* you make use or intend to make use of a maven2-structured
repository layout
* you use any of the following packages:
* excalibur-instrument
* excalibur-fortress
* excalibur-i18n
* excalibur-sourceresolve
* excalibur-xmlutil
This release has not been tested with JDK/JRE versions prior to 1.4.
Future releases will be made exclusively following the new
maven2-structured repository layout.
