Releases

We released Apache Jackrabbit 1.5.0 on December 8th.

We also made the following patch releases from the 1.4 branch:

• jackrabbit-core 1.4.6 on October 7th
• jackrabbit-classloader 1.4.1 on October 2nd
• jackrabbit-jcr-server 1.4.1 on September 30th

Legal

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Community

Claus Koell joined the Jackrabbit team as a committer and PMC member.

The slump in community activity over late summer seems to be gone and we're back to normal levels of mailing list and commit activity.

Based on interest to the CMIS implementation effort (see below), we have extended write access in our sandbox area in svn to all Apache committers.

We are considering starting a “JCR Commons” subproject for managing the development and release of a number of our components that are not tightly coupled with the Jackrabbit content repository implementation. This subproject would keep using our existing mailing lists but would have its own web site (under http://jackrabbit.apache.org/commons/) and separate issue trackers and release cycles for each component. See http://markmail.org/message/qqlvlwpgi5oauak6 for more details.

Development

Development in trunk continues with post-1.5 features, and I expect us to release Jackrabbit 1.6 early next year. Jackrabbit 2.0 (and the JSR 283 reference implementation) will probably be released later next year.

A new sandbox component was started for an effort to implement the proposed Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) specification on top of a JCR content repository.

Infrastructure

We created a new Jira project (JCRCMIS) for the CMIS implementation effort and plan to create more assuming the JCR Commons subproject gets started.

We've enabled wiki markup and the patch-available workflow in the JCRCMIS project. If these features work well, we will enable them also in our main JCR project in Jira.