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Apache Cassandra 0.6.0 Released

MasPoster — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 07:39:47 +0000

Apache announced the latest stable release of Apache Cassandra 0.6.0.

The Apache Cassandra Project develops a highly scalable second-generation distributed database, bringing together Amazon Dynamo’s fully distributed design and Bigtable’s ColumnFamily-based data model.

Cassandra was open sourced by Facebook in 2008, It was released as open source project on Google code in July 2008. In March 2009, it became an Apache Incubator project. On February 17th, 2010 it graduated to a top-level project.

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Features:

Decentralized
- Every node in the cluster is identical. There is no single point of failure.
Fault Tolerant
- Data is automatically replicated to multiple nodes for fault-tolerance. Replication across multiple data centers is supported. Failed nodes can be replaced with no downtime.
Rich Data Model
- Allows efficient use for many applications beyond simple key/value.
Elastic
- Read and write throughput both increase linearly as new machines are added, with no downtime or interruption to applications.

Cassandra is in use at Digg, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Rackspace, Cloudkick, Cisco, SimpleGeo, Ooyala, OpenX, etc.

Cassandra is meant to run on a cluster of nodes, but will run equally well on a single machine. Cassandra uses Thrift for its external client-facing API.

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Apache Cassandra 0.6.0 was released on 12 April 2010. Although the version number is 0.6.0, it is considered a stable release that is well tested and reasonably free of serious problems, or at least the problems are known and well documented.

Apache Cassandra is a free open source software licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

Subversion 1.6.11 Released

MasPoster — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 22:16:30 +0000

The latest stable version of Subversion (SVN), Subversion 1.6.11 was released on 16 April 2010.

Developer-visible changes:

disable checks for wc-ng working copies when running the test suite
on Windows, don’t ignore move operation error codes (r896915)
more precise reporting of errors occuring with sqlite init (r927323, -8)
ensure rangelist APIs are commutative (r923389, -91)

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User-visible changes:

fix for repositories mounted via NFS (issue #3501)
enable TCP keep-alives in svnserve (r880552)
tighten restrictions on revprops for 'svnadmin verify' (r904594)
make ra_serf give better out-of-date information (issue #3561)
improve error message upon connection failure with svn+ssh:// (r922516)
allow 'svn log' on an uncommitted copy/move destination (r901752)
make 'svnadmin hotcopy' copy the fsfs config file (r905303)
mergeinfo improvements with non-inheritable mergeinfo (issue #3573)
make mergeinfo queries not require access to the repo root (issue #3242)
update URLs to refer the the new apache.org repository (r904301, -94)
update relative externals during a switch (issue #3390)
fix 'merge --reintegrate' with self-referential mergeinfo (r892050, -85)
improve wc-ng working copy detection (r929382)
improve handling of mergeinfo when using serf (r880461)
fixed: 'svnlook plist --revprop' with '-t TXN_NAME' (r917640, -8211)
fixed: file external from URL cannot overwrite existing item (issue #3552)
fixed: potential memory error in 'svn status' (r923674, -9)
fixed: merge records mergeinfo from natural history gaps (issue #3432)
fixed: theoretical possibility of DB corruption (r926151, -67)

Subversion 1.6.10 was not publicly released due to errors found during internal pre-release validation.

Subversion is an open source version control system available for IBM's AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, Windows, Mac OS X, *BSD (FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD), Linux (Debian Linux, Fedora Linux, Red Hat Linux, SUSE Linux, Ubuntu Linux). Subversion are free to be downloaded, modified, and redistributed , it is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

Apache Directory Studio 1.5.3 Released

MasPoster — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 13:53:28 +0000

The Apache Directory Team announced the release of Apache Directory Studio 1.5.3, a bug fix and enhancement update of its Eclipse based LDAP Browser and Directory client.

Here are a few highlights of this new version:

fixed a critical bug that makes Studio gone into an endless event loop
Apache DS plugin comes with the latest 1.5.6 version of Apache DS
Apache DS Configuration plugin can now handle correctly the latest 1.5.6 version of Apache DS server.xml file
editors now warns the user if they contain modifications and the input is changed
various improvements in certificates handling
added a new ‘Delete All’ menu item for entries, bookmarks and searches

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Apache Directory Studio is a complete directory tooling platform intended to be used with any LDAP server however it is particularly designed for use with the ApacheDS. It is an Eclipse RCP application, composed of several Eclipse (OSGi) plugins, that can be easily upgraded with additional ones. These plugins can even run within Eclipse itself.

Features:

LDAP Browser
LDIF Editor
Schema Editor
Bundled with the latest version of the LDAPV3 certified ApacheDS
ApacheDS Configuration Editor
ACI Editor
Internationalized in English, French and German
Multi-plaform application that runs on Mac OS X, Linux and Windows, and also as plugins inside Eclipse itself

Apache Directory Studio 1.5.3 can be downloaded as a standalone RCP application for Mac OS X, Linux and Windows; or it can be installed it directly in Eclipse.

Oracle Acquires The Apache Software Foundation for $1.5 Billion

MasPoster — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 14:28:30 +0000

The Apache Software Foundation Receives Approval for Sale to Oracle Corporation. Oracle agrees to purchase the IP and all assets of The Apache Software Foundation for $1.5 Billion.

Today, the Apache Software Foundation announced it has agreed to sell all IP and assets of the foundation to Oracle. The agreement is a $1.5 billion all cash deal. The ASF board agreed to the terms after vigorous discussions last evening.

“We never considered the possibility of selling the ASF,” said Jim Jagielski, Chairman of the ASF, “but Oracle made us a simply fantastic offer. Larry himself flew out last week to meet with us to address our concerns.”

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As part of the agreement, Oracle obtains even more of the crucial LAMP-stack software products.

"It was Oracle's admission that the Web is more than 'just' Java or databases that finalized the decision for us," said Justin Erenkrantz, Director and President of the ASF.

2009 marked the 10th Anniversary of the ASF.

"We will be communicating updates about the status of our projects and our license in the near future. As a community based organization, we want to ensure the best experience for our existing committers, contributors, and users, under our new arrangement.", the Apache Software Foundation stated.

In Apache's blogs, some people raised the concerns that the development of some Apache projects may be slowed down since motivations of some members of the Apache Software Foundation may go down now that they get to received a huge sum of money.

The news was released on the Apache Software Foundation blog on the FIRST OF April 2010, a day where many unreliable news were release even by many reputable companies!

Several New Releases From Apache Felix

MasPoster — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 21:44:57 +0000

Apache Felix Utils 1.0.0, Bundle Repository 1.6.0, Web Console 3.0.0, Web Console Event Plugin 1.0.2, Web Console Memory Usage Plugin 1.0.0, Web Console UPNP Plugin 1.0.0 have been released. (March 31, 2010)

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Apache Felix is an open source implementation of the OSGi Release 4 core framework specification and other OSGi-related technologies under the Apache license. The OSGi specifications originally targeted embedded devices and home services gateways, but they are ideally suited for any project interested in the principles of modularity, component-orientation, and/or service-orientation. OSGi technology combines aspects of these aforementioned principles to define a dynamic service deployment framework that is amenable to remote management.

New Releases are now available in the Apache Felix downloads section and from the Maven repository.

Apache MyFaces Extensions Validator Released

MasPoster — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:33:18 +0000

A major version of Apache MyFaces Extensions Validator (aka MyFaces ExtVal) has been released.

MyFaces Extensions Validator is a JSF centric validation framework.

It offers powerful and easy to use field based validation based on annotations. It has a pluggable architecture, so it is possible to add new validation modules or support for component libraries like Trinidad or other 3rd party frameworks.

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MyFaces Extensions Validator is compatible with JSF 1.x and JSF 2.x. All versions require Java 1.5+

The release contains several improvements and new features as well as a new validation module for using Bean-Validation (JSR 303) with JSF 1.x and 2.0. Compared to the standard integration of BV in JSF 2.0 MyFaces ExtVal 2.0.3 offers more advanced and typesafe features.

Release notes can be found here for 2.0.3 and here for 1.2.3 and here for 1.1.3.

Apache MyFaces Extensions Validator is now available for Download.

Apache Directory Server 1.5.6 Released

MasPoster — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:31:44 +0000

Apache Directory team announced the release of Apache Directory Server version 1.5.6, numerous enhancements and bug fixes were included in this release.

New in this release

Schema subsystem was completely refactored and rewritten
LDIF based schema support
A new testing framework was designed with annotation support to start and stop DirectoryService / LdapServer
The new client LDAP API has been used in server integration tests
A new partition implementation using LDIF files as backend
ApacheDS now uses MINA 2.0.0-RC1

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Apache Directory Server is an embeddable directory server entirely written in Java, which has been certified LDAPv3 compatible by the Open Group. Besides LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) it supports Kerberos 5 and the Change Password Protocol. It has been designed to introduce triggers, stored procedures, queues and views to the world of LDAP which has lacked these rich constructs.

Apache Directory Server is one of the sub-projects from the Apache Directory Project. The other sub-projects is Apache Directory Studio. Apache Directory Server is a multi-platform application and runs on Mac OS X, Linux and Windows. Downloads are available now.

Apache FtpServer 1.0.4 released

MasPoster — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:38:30 +0000

The Apache MINA project announces the release of FtpServer 1.0.4.

This release fixes the issues found since the release of 1.0.3. All users are recommended to upgrade to this release. FtpServer 1.0.4 is considered a stable and production ready release.

Apache FtpServer can be embedded within applications as well as running as standalone.

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Tomcat 6.0.26 Released

MasPoster — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:56:24 +0000

The Apache Tomcat Project announces the release of version 6.0.26 of Apache Tomcat, on 11 March 2010. This release includes many bugfixes over Apache Tomcat 6.0.24.

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Apache Tomcat (or Jakarta Tomcat or simply Tomcat) is an open source software implementation of the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages (JSP) technologies and provides a "pure Java" HTTP web server environment for Java code to run.

Celebrating 15 Years of Apache HTTP Web Server

MasPoster — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:28:51 +0000

Fifteen years ago, the Apache Server started as a fork (an independent development stream) of the NCSA HTTPd, a Web server created by Robert M. McCool (Rob McCool) at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.

At the time, NCSA HTTPd powered over 95% of all webservers on the Internet. When development of the NCSA HTTPd slowed down, the independent effort, Apache project, took the codebase and continued; meanwhile, NCSA released one more version (1.5), then ceased development; nearly all NCSA HTTPd users switched over to Apache.

The Apache server surpassed NCSA HTTPd as the world’s most popular Web server on the Internet within the first six months of inception. The Apache HTTP Server today powers nearly 112 million Websites world-wide, forming the backbone of nearly 70% of all sites on the Internet.

Apache Foundation was formally established in March 1999, it is an all-volunteer organization. The Apache HTTP Server is available for a variety of operating systems, including Unix, Linux, GNU, FreeBSD, Netware, Solaris, Windows, Mac OS X, OS/2, TPF, and eCS; and the server software can be downloaded, modified and installed by anyone free of charge under the Apache Software License v.2.0.

Current Releases:

2.3.5-alpha (released 2010-1-28)
2.2.14 (released 2009-10-05)
2.0.63 (released 2008-01-19)
1.3.42 (released 2010-02-02)