I'm sure everyone asks this, and maybe it's an unanswerable question. But . . .
I'm starting a project, with an intended completion date of March. Is Jackrabbit 2.0 on pace to see an official release this winter? On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Jukka Zitting <ju...@apache.org> wrote: > The Apache Jackrabbit community is pleased to announce the release of > Apache Jackrabbit 2.0 beta3. 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 2.0-beta3 > > Introduction > ------------ > > This is a beta release of Apache Jackrabbit 2.0. This release is a fully > compliant implementation of the JCR 2.0 API that was specified by the > Java Specification Request 283 (JSR 283, http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=283). > However, the beta status of this release means that some parts of the > implementation are not yet ready for normal production use. > > Changes in this release > ----------------------- > > Jackrabbit 2.0 is a major upgrade from the earlier 1.x releases. The most > notable changes in this release are: > > * Upgrade to JCR 2.0. This Jackrabbit release implements and is based > on the official JCR 2.0 API. All of the features required by the > JSR 283 specification have been implemented. > > * Upgrade to Java 5. All of Jackrabbit (except the jcr-tests component) > now requires Java 5 as the base platform. Java 1.4 environments are no > longer supported. > > * Removal of deprecated classes and features. Jackrabbit 2.0 is not > backwards compatible with client code that used any classes or features > that had been deprecated during the 1.x release cycle. > > * Separate JCR Commons components. Many of the general-purpose JCR > components like JCR-RMI and OCM are now developed and released > separately from the Jackrabbit content repository. See the individual > components for their most recent releases. > > * Data store feature enabled in the default repository configuration. > > * Full text indexing with Apache Tika. Jackrabbit can now extract and > index the full text content of many new types of documents, including > the Office Open XML files produced by Microsoft Office 2007 and higher. > > For more detailed information about all the changes in this and other > Jackrabbit releases, please see the Jackrabbit issue tracker at > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCR > > Release Contents > ---------------- > > This release consists of a single source archive packaged as a zip file. > The archive can be unpacked with the jar tool from your JDK installation. > See the README.txt file for instructions on how to build this release. > > 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. > > About Apache Jackrabbit > ----------------------- > > 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. > > For more information, visit http://jackrabbit.apache.org/ > > About The Apache Software Foundation > ------------------------------------ > > Established in 1999, The Apache Software Foundation provides organizational, > legal, and financial support for more than 100 freely-available, > collaboratively-developed Open Source projects. The pragmatic Apache License > enables individual and commercial users to easily deploy Apache software; > the Foundation's intellectual property framework limits the legal exposure > of its 2,500+ contributors. > > For more information, visit http://www.apache.org/ >
