Episode 75

• Gerrit 2.4 released
• Cucumber-JVM 1.0.8
• ErrorProne - another build time error catcher
• Huge Collections - another large collections library for java
• JNario - new Executable Specifications testing tool for Java, based on Eclipse Xtend.
• Looks awesome, but... Jnario requires Eclipse ≥3.6 with the latest milestone releases of Xtext 2.3 and Xtend 2.3.
• Mocikto 1.9.5-rc1 - One of the biggest new things is the MockMaker API, making the default cglib proxy generator pluggable, with..... dexmaker for live, on the fly Android proxy generation.
• Lockitron - use NFC to unlock your house...
• OrientDB 1.0 released ( a few weeks back now )
• Hibernate 4.1.4
• Loop - New haskell/ruby/scheme inspired JVM language from Dhanji
• WebMotion 2.2 - a new Java web framework
• I say new, but 1.0 came out mid-last year - never heard of it before.
• Templating is via StringTemplate - an interesting choice
• EE6/Servlet 3 based
• Exhaustive documentation - win!
• GetDown - a lightweight replacement for Java WebStart.
• YouTrack 4.0 Release Date pushed back - after getting feedback from the community, JetBrains have decided to push back the YT4.0 release back a month to add in some extra new features to new the Agile/Kanban/Scrum portion of YouTrack - which looks awesome. A webinar of the 4.0 Agile features is also available.

Apache

• JMeter 2.7
• Apache Log4j 1.2.17 - first (maintainance) release in 2 years!
• Tomcat Connectors 1.2.37
• Buildr 1.4.7
• PDFBox 1.7.0
• WSIF retierd
• Wink 1.2.0-incubating
• Libcloud 0.10.1
• HttpComponents HttpClient 4.2GA
• Apache Qpid 0.16

• http://grails.org/2.0.4+Release+Notes
• http://grails.org/1.3.9+Release+Notes
• http://grails.org/2.1.0.RC1+Release+Notes
• Gaelyk 1.2
• Groovy 2.0 RC

• ScalaGWT

• Clojure 1.5.0 alpha 1
• Timbre - pure clojure logging library
• Neocons - feature rich clojure client library for Neo4J REST Server
• Carmine - Clojure Redis Client

• maven clean plugin 2.5
• maven compiler plugin 2.5
• maven changes plugin 2.7.1
• maven invoker 1.6
• release:perform
• maven truezip plugin 1.0
• maven license plugin 1.1
• maven remote resources plugin 1.3
• maven shade plugin 1.7
• maven release plugin 2.3.1
• maven plugin plugin 3.0.0 released, now fully/officially supporting JDK annotations.