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Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 22:05:32 +0200
From: Ate Douma <ate@apache.org>
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Subject: Jetspeed 1.6 Final Released
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The Apache Portals Jetspeed Team is pleased to announce the final release of Jetspeed 1.6.

Jetspeed is an Enterprise Information Portal framework aiming to provide:

* an efficient multi-device user customizable portal interface

* an implementation of the Java Portlet API used for developing customizable components that can be 
integrated into any compatible portal

The release is available for download from the Apache Download Mirrors:

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

Follow the links to portals/jetspeed-1

The binaries are distributed in two packages:

1. Jetspeed 1.6 without JSR-168 support
2. Jetspeed 1.6 with JSR-168 support (Fusion)

Two binary releases of Jetspeed 1.6 Fusion come prepackaged with Tomcat:

1. Jetspeed-Fusion 1.6 + Tomcat 5.0.30 distribution.
2. Jetspeed-Fusion 1.6 + Tomcat 5.5.9 distribution.

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* New Features *
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  1. Jetspeed Fusion - JSR 168 portlet integration with Jetspeed-2
  2. Jetspeed Clustering via JMS
  3. Ability to set the portlet title from within an action or while rendering content
  4. Security and Portlets can now be stored in the database
  5. Ability to switch database object model without re-compiling Jetspeed