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        <news id="33">
            <title>Castor 0.9.9 - <b>Final</b> release</title>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <date>Sep 22 2005</date>
            <time>10:11:12</time>
            <summary>
                I've placed a copy of the <b>final</b> Castor 0.9.9 release at the
                <a href="http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/0.9.9/">Codehaus</a>.<br/><br/>

                This is a major feature release. For details about the features added and the bugs 
				fixed, please have a look at the 
                <a href="http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html">release notes</a>.
					
				We are currently planning for a <b>Castor 1.0</b> release in about 8+ weeks, 
				which we mainly see as a bug fix release and a one-time opportunity 
				to get the HTML documentation into a better shape .. ;-). Please have a look 
				at <a href="http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR">the project roadmap</a> for
				details.<br/><br/>

                Please report any issues at <a href="http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR">the 
				Castor Jira site</a>.
            </summary>
        </news>
        <news id="32">
            <title>Castor 0.9.9 - 2nd milestone build</title>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <date>Sep 13 2005</date>
            <time>23:23:32</time>
            <summary>
                I've placed a copy of the <b>2nd</b> Castor 0.9.9 milestone build at the
                <a href="http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/0.9.9/">Codehaus</a>.<br/><br/>

                This is a bug fix release only. For details about the bugs fixed since the last 
                release candidate, please have a look at 
                <a href="http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR">the project roadmap</a> and 
                the interim version of the 
                <a href="http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html">release notes</a>.
            </summary>
        </news>
        <news id="31">
            <title>Castor 0.9.9 - 1st milestone build</title>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <date>Aug 24 2005</date>
            <time>23:23:32</time>
            <summary>
                I've placed a copy of the <b>1st</b> Castor 0.9.9 milestone build at the
                <a href="http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/0.9.9/">Codehaus</a>.<br/><br/>

                This is a major feature release. For details about the features added and the bugs 
				fixed, please have a look at <a href="http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR">the 
                project roadmap</a> and the interim version of the 
                <a href="http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html">release notes</a>.
                <br/><br/>

                This milestone will be replaced by a second milestone within a week,
                so please try this version and report any regression issues (where applicable).
            </summary>
        </news>
        <news id="30">
            <title>Castor 0.9.7 - Final release</title>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <date>Jun 08 2005</date>
            <time>14:15:21</time>
            <summary>
                I've placed a copy of Castor 0.9.7 (final) at 
                <a href="http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/0.9.7/">The Codehaus</a>.<br/><br/>

                This is mainly a maintenance release. For details about the bugs fixed and features 
				provided, please have a look at the <a href="release-notes.html">release notes</a>.<br/><br/>
                
                Please report any issues through the project's 
                <a href="http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR">issue tracking system</a> and/or the 
                mailing lists.
            </summary>
        </news>
        <news id="29">
            <title>Castor 0.9.7 - 1st milestone build</title>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <date>May 19 2005</date>
            <time>22:23:21</time>
            <summary>
                I've placed a copy of the <b>1st</b> Castor 0.9.7 milestone build at the
                <a href="http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/0.9.7/">Codehaus</a>.<br/><br/>

                This is a maintenance release for release 0.9.6 only. For details about the bugs 
				fixed, please have a look at <a href="http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR">the project roadmap</a>
                and the interim version of the <a href="http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html">release 
				notes</a>.<br/><br/>

                This milestone will be replaced by a second milestone within a week,
                so please try this version and report any regression issues (where applicable).
            </summary>
        </news>
        <news id="28">
            <title>Werner Guttmann Promoted to Castor JDO Lead</title>
            <author>Bruce Snyder</author>
            <date>19 May 2005</date>
            <time>08:04:00</time>
            <summary>
                After having lead Castor JDO since 2002, Bruce has decided to
                pass the torch to Werner Guttmann. Werner has been a force on 
                the project since he began contributing and his tireless efforts 
                are exactly what the project needs to continue. Congratulations, 
                Werner and keep up the great work! 
            </summary>
        </news>
        <news id="27">
            <title>New Castor roadmap</title>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <date>11 May 2005</date>
            <time>20:21:20</time>
            <summary>
                For information about upcoming Castor releases and future development areas in general, 
                please have a look at the 
                <a href="http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR?report=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project:roadmap-panel">Castor 
                roadmap</a>.<br/><br/>

                As it stands right now, this will reveal that we have scheduled two releases (0.9.7
                and 0.9.9) within the next 5 weeks, the former designated to be a maintenance release 
                for Castor 0.9.6, the latter planned as a feature release with quite some new 
                features and improvements to be added.
            </summary>
        </news>
        <news id="26">
            <title>Castor forums currently unavailable</title>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <date>20 Apr 2005</date>
            <time>22:21:20</time>
            <summary>
                Many of you will have recognized by now that the exolab.org 
                domain had been voided as of last Friday. As a result of this, 
                the Castor user forums are not available.
                
                Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience you are experiencing
                and rest assured that we are working to get it back online as soon 
                as possible.
            </summary>
        </news>
        <news id="25">
            <title>New issue tracking tool</title>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <date>20 Apr 2005</date>
            <time>21:20:19</time>
            <summary>
                This is to announce that we finally moved our issue tracking tool from
                <a href="http://bugzilla.exolab.org">Exolab Bugzilla</a> to the 
                <a href="http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR">Codehaus JIRA</a>.<br/><br/>
                
                We'd like to offer our apologies for any inconvenience you experienced 
                as a result of this migration and hope that you like our new 
                <a href="http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR">home for tracking 
                (and resolving) issues</a> as much as we do.
            </summary>
        </news>
        <news id="24">
            <title>How to submit a patch - New guidelines</title>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <date>08 Apr 2005</date>
            <time>21:22:21</time>
            <summary>
                This is to announce that we now provide unified instructions on 
                how to submit a patch at <url>http://castor.codehaus.org/how-to-submit-a-bug.html</url>. 
                To facilitate this task, we are now providing a template for Castor JDO 
                related patches that has been added to the CVS sources already.
            </summary>
        </news>
        <news id="23">
            <title>Support for polymorphism - A test drive</title>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <date>31 Mar 2005</date>
            <time>21:22:26</time>
            <summary>
                One of the major short-comings of Castor JDO always has been missing support for 
                polymorphism. After the 0.9.6 release back in Februray, which mainly focused on bug 
                fixing, we decided to tackle this missing feature and start work for adding 
                support for polymorphism to Castor JDO. For a complete history of the work done so 
                far and the tests conducted, please have a look at 
                <a href="http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ViewIssue.jspa?key=CASTOR-1018">bug 1881</a>.<br/><br/>

                As of last week, most of the work (originally initiated by myself) has been 
                finished, and we are now in a position where we'd like to ask you, our users, 
                for feedback. In other words, we think that the current implementation is stable enough 
                to make it available as described below. But as we want to get this new feature 
                as stable as possible before heading for a new release (most likely 0.9.7, but 
                maybe 1.0), we now need feedback from our users.<br/><br/>

                To facilitate this, I've made available binaries 
                <a href="http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/previews/0.9.6_with_polymorphism/">here</a>. 
                Please use the source distribution if possible, as it contains the tests mentioned above 
                as well.
            </summary>
        </news>
        <news id="22">
            <title>Mailing list changes</title>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <date>30 Mar 2005</date>
            <time>22:23:24</time>
            <summary>
                This is to announce that we finally moved our mailing lists to the 
                <a href="http://www.codehaus.org">Codehaus</a>. As part of this move, we moved 
                your subscriptions to spare you the work of having to re-subscribe. If you feel 
                that you are subscribed to one of the mailing lists by fault, please use the 
                below addresses to unsubscribe.<br/><br/>

                As of now, please use the following email addresses:<br/><br/>

                * User mailing list<br/><br/>

                  To post a message: <a href="user@castor.codehaus.org">user@castor.codehaus.org</a><br/>
                  To subscribe: <a href="user-subscribe@castor.codehaus.org">user-subscribe@castor.codehaus.org</a><br/>
                  To unsubscribe: <a href="user-unsubscribe@castor.codehaus.org">user-unsubscribe@castor.codehaus.org</a><br/>
                  Archive: <a href="http://archive.castor.codehaus.org/user">http://archive.castor.codehaus.org/user</a><br/><br/>

                * Announcement mailing list<br/><br/>

                  To post a message: <a href="announce@castor.codehaus.org">announce@castor.codehaus.org</a><br/>
                  To subscribe: <a href="announce-subscribe@castor.codehaus.org">announce-subscribe@castor.codehaus.org</a><br/>
                  To unsubscribe: <a href="announce-unsubscribe@castor.codehaus.org">announce-unsubscribe@castor.codehaus.org</a><br/>
                  Archive: <a href="http://archive.castor.codehaus.org/announce">http://archive.castor.codehaus.org/announce</a><br/><br/>

                * Development mailing list<br/><br/>

                  To post a message: <a href="dev@castor.codehaus.org">dev@castor.codehaus.org</a><br/>
                  To subscribe: <a href="dev-subscribe@castor.codehaus.org">dev-subscribe@castor.codehaus.org</a><br/>
                  To unsubscribe: <a href="dev-unsubscribe@castor.codehaus.org">dev-unsubscribe@castor.codehaus.org</a><br/>
                  Archive: <a href="http://archive.castor.codehaus.org/dev">http://archive.castor.codehaus.org/dev</a><br/><br/>

                For a period of 14 days, we'll be monitoring the old lists at Exolab, mainly 
                referring you to the lists mentioned above. After this period, we will turn off 
                these lists at our discretion. As for mailing lists archives, please note that at 
                the moment, the archives mentioned above don't hold any messages from the old 
                lists, but we are working on a solution. As such, messages from the lists at 
                Exolab will be available at the usual sites.
            </summary>
        </news>
        <news id="21">
            <title>RSS feed available</title>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <date>11 Mar 2005</date>
            <time>21:22:23</time>
            <summary>
                We are happy to provide an RSS feed for announcements related to Castor  
                <a href="http://castor.codehaus.org/rss/castor-announcement.xml">here</a>. 
                This service basically mirrors the information provided at our 
                <a href="http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html">news page</a>.
            </summary>
        </news>
        <news id="20">
            <title>Castor - A new home</title>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <date>14 Feb 2005</date>
            <time>22:21:20</time>
            <summary>
                After over five years of <a href="http://www.exolab.org">Exolab</a> sponsoring Castor, 
                the Castor team recently decided to move the entire project to
                a <a href="http://castor.codehaus.org/">new home</a> at 
                the <a href="http://www.codehaus.org">Codehaus</a>. The team would like to thank 
                Exolab and it's parent company Intalio, Inc. for it's long-standing support of 
                the project.<br/><br/>
                
                Please use the below links for access to ...<br/><br/>
                
                - <a href="http://castor.codehaus.org">Main documentation</a><br/>
                - <a href="http://cvs.castor.codehaus.org">CVS Repository</a><br/>
                - <a href="http://dist.codehaus.org/castor">Download</a>
            </summary>
        </news>
        <news id="19">
            <title>Castor JDO - New committers</title>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <date>14 Feb 2005</date>
            <time>21:21:21</time>
            <summary>
                Please join me to welcome Gregory Block, Martin Fuchs, Ralf Joachim and Stein 
                as new committers for Castor JDO. I am more than happy to have them on board, as 
                all of them have shown their dedication to the project through numerous occasions 
                (incl. patches and willingness to spend time with myself ...).
                
                Details about the current and past committers (as well as contributors) 
                can be found at <a href="http://castor.codehaus.org/contributors.html">here</a>.
            </summary>
        </news>
        <news id="18">
            <title>Castor 0.9.6 - Final release</title>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <date>09 Feb 2005</date>
            <time>22:22:22</time>
            <summary>
                I've placed a copy of Castor 0.9.6 (final) on the
                <a href="http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/0.9.6/">FTP Server</a>.<br/><br/>

                This is mainly a bug fix release, but includes a couple of new features as
                well. For details about the bugs fixed and features provided, please have
                a look at the
                <a href="release-notes.html">release notes</a>.<br/><br/>
                
                Please report any issues through the project's 
                <a href="http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR">issue tracking system</a> and/or the 
                mailing lists.
            </summary>
        </news>
        <news id="17">
            <title>Castor 0.9.6 - 3rd release candidates</title>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <date>11 Jan 2005</date>
            <time>23:25:00</time>
            <summary>
                I've placed a copy of the <b>3rd</b> and <b>final</b> Castor 0.9.6 release candidate on the
                <a href="http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/0.9.6/">FTP Server</a>.<br/><br/>

                This is a bug fix release only. For details about the bugs fixed sinc the last 
                release candidate, please have a look at (an interim version of) the
                <a href="http://brainopolis.dnsalias.com/castorwiki/Wiki.jsp?page=ReleaseNotes096">release notes</a>.<br/><br/>

                The release candidate will be replaced by the official version within about a week, 
                so please try this version and report any regression issues (where applicable).
            </summary>
        </news>

        <news id="16">
            <title>Castor 0.9.5.4 Final Release</title>
            <author>Keith Visco</author>
            <date>18 Nov 2004</date>
            <time>17:45:00</time>
            <summary>
                I've placed a copy of Castor 0.9.5.4 final on the
                <a href="http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/0.9.5.4/">FTP Server</a>.

                This is a bug fix release, so please do not expect new features
                slated for 0.9.6 to appear in this release.

                Sorry for the delay in officially announcing the release, it's actually been
                available on the FTP Server for a couple weeks now!
            </summary>
        </news>

        <news id="15">
            <title>Castor 0.9.6 Release Candidates</title>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <date>28 Oct 2004</date>
            <time>23:55:00</time>
            <summary>
                I've placed a copy of the first Castor 0.9.6 release candidate on the
                <a href="http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/0.9.6/">FTP Server</a>.<br/><br/>

                This is mainly a bug fix release, but includes a couple of new features as
                well. For details about the bugs fixed and features provided, please have
                a look at (an interim version of) the
                <a href="http://brainopolis.dnsalias.com/castorwiki/Wiki.jsp?page=ReleaseNotes096">release notes</a>.<br/><br/>

                The release candidate will be replaced by the official version within the
                next three or four weeks, so please try this version and report any
                regression issues (where applicable). A regression for this release is something
                that was working in 0.9.5.4 but no longer is working in this 0.9.6 release
                candidate. Only regression issues will be considered for fixing before the final
                0.9.6 release.<br/><br/>

                All other bugs will be moved out to 0.9.7, or a 0.9.6.x sub-release if necessary.
            </summary>
        </news>

        <news id="14">
            <title>Castor 0.9.5.4 Release Candidates</title>
            <author>Keith Visco</author>
            <date>18 Oct 2004</date>
            <time>22:00:00</time>
            <summary>

                I've placed a copy of the latest Castor 0.9.5.4 release candidate on the
                <a href="http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/0.9.5.4/">FTP Server</a>.

                This is a bug fix release, so please do not expect new features
                slated for 0.9.6 to appear in this release. The release candidate
                will be replaced by the official version by end of the week, so
                please try this version and report any regression issues. A
                regression for this release is something that was working in 0.9.5.3
                but no longer working in this 0.9.5.4 release candidate. Only
                regression issues will be considered for fixing before the final
                release. All other bugs will be moved out to 0.9.6, or a 0.9.5.5
                release if necessary.

            </summary>
        </news>

        <news id="13">
            <title>Castor Message Board</title>
            <author>Keith Visco</author>
            <date>04 Jul 2004</date>
            <time>05:00:00</time>
            <summary>
               The Castor site now has a new
               <a href="http://castor.exolab.org/phpBB2">message board</a>.
               <br/>
               <br/>
               Message boards are typically more user-friendly than mailing lists
               as they keeps the information in a much more organized fashion and don't
               add to our ever increasing inboxes.
               <br/>
               The mailing lists will continue to remain open and you can choose which
               ever communication method you prefer.
            </summary>
        </news>
        <news id="12">
            <title>CastorLive Book in the Works</title>
            <author>Bruce Snyder</author>
            <date>20 Jun 2004</date>
            <time>08:15:44</time>
            <summary>
            Bruce Snyder is now authoring <a href="http://www.sourcebeat.com/TitleAction.do?id=8">Castor
            Live</a> for <a href="http://www.sourcebeat.com/">SourceBeat
            Publishing</a>. The first cut of the book will be out by the end
            of the July containing the first few chapters.
            <br />
            <br />
            The SourceBeat model is very different from traditional publishing because books
            are published online and <i>updated every month</i> by the author! Subscribers to
            a book receive a one year subscription and receive all updates to the title for that
            year. Also check out the <a href="http://jroller.org/page/CastorLive">Castor Live blog</a>
            for additional information.
            </summary>
        </news>
        <news id="11">
            <release />
            <title>Current Release</title>
            <author>Keith Visco</author>
            <date>$RELEASE_DATE$</date>
            <time></time>
            <summary>
                Version $VERSION$ is now <a href="download.xml">available for download</a>.

                <!-- Release Candidate Info  ** use when doing interim releases -->
                <!--
                <p>We've placed a copy of Castor X.Y.Z release candidate N on the ftp site:
                <a href="ftp://ftp.exolab.org/pub/castor/castor_x.y.z/">ftp://ftp.exolab.org/pub/castor/castor_x.y.z/</a>.
                Please try this release and report any regression issues (preferably via Bugzilla).
                A regression is something that was working in a previous release (such as 0.9.5.2)
                but doesn't work in this release candidate. Please do not report issues that already
                have bug reports, but haven't been fixed yet in 0.9.5.3. These issues simply
                did not make the X.Y.Z release due to time constraints.
                </p>
                -->
                <br /><br />
                <a href="changelog.xml">Changes in 0.9.5.3</a>
            </summary>
        </news>

        <news id="10">
            <release />
            <title>Next Release</title>
            <author>Keith Visco</author>
            <date>10 Mar 2004</date>
            <time>04:19:15</time>
            <summary>
            Next scheduled release (0.9.6): June, 7 2004 (tentative).
            </summary>
        </news>

        <news id="9">
            <release />
            <title>Possible Interim Release</title>
            <author>Keith Visco</author>
            <date>10 Mar 2004</date>
            <time>04:19:15</time>
            <summary>
            An interim release (0.9.5.4) may be released sooner for any
            regression issues still present in 0.9.5.3.
            </summary>
        </news>

        <news id="8">
            <title>Welcome Stein Hugubakken to the Team</title>
            <author>Bruce Snyder</author>
            <date>01 May 2004</date>
            <time>13:06:24</time>
            <summary>
            Please welcome Stein Hugubakken as the latest addition to team
            Castor! Stein has been active with Castor since early this year
            and we're very happy to have him on board.
            </summary>
        </news>

        <news id="7">
            <title>Welcome Patrick van Kaan to the Team</title>
            <author>Bruce Snyder</author>
            <date>15 Jan 2004</date>
            <time>22:58:39</time>
            <summary>
            Please welcome Patrick van Kaan as the latest addition to team
            Castor! Patrick has been using Castor JDO for a while now and
            is the developer behind the <a href="http://castor-taglib.sourceforge.net/">Castor-Taglib</a>
            project.
            </summary>
        </news>

        <news id="6">
            <title>Welcome Werner Guttmann to the Team</title>
            <author>Bruce Snyder</author>
            <date>11 Nov 2003</date>
            <time>18:38:10</time>
            <summary>
            Please welcome Werner Guttman as the newest committer to the Castor
            team! Werner's contributions moving forward with the Castor JDO
            refactoring are key, as is his experience with J2EE and IBM WebSphere.
            </summary>
        </news>

        <news id="5">
            <title>CastorWiki Now Available</title>
            <author>Keith Visco</author>
            <date>19 Jun 2003</date>
            <time>16:39:17</time>
            <summary>
            Can't find it here? Check out the
            <a href="http://www.brainopolis.com/castorwiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Main">CastorWiki</a>.
            An effort put together by a number of Castor users to document the
            undocumented! Hosted off site by Lance Lavandowska, and championed
            by Tek1 (whose real name is a mystery to us all!).
            </summary>
        </news>

        <news id="4">
            <title>RefactorIt to Include Castor</title>
            <author>Keith Visco</author>
            <date>12 Mar 2003</date>
            <time></time>
            <summary>
            We're pleased to announce that the folks at
            <a href="http://www.refactorit.com/index.html?id=649">RefactorIt</a>
            have included Castor as part of their Open Source Community License.
            This means anyone who works on the Castor code base can download a
            copy of RefactorIt and use it when working on the Castor code.
            </summary>
        </news>

        <news id="3">
            <title>Congratulations Bruce!</title>
            <author>Keith Visco</author>
            <date>14 Nov 2002</date>
            <time></time>
            <summary>
            <b>Congratulations</b> to Bruce Snyder and his family on the birth
            of their second daughter, the youngest member of the Castor team,
            we can't wait until she's old enough to start programming!
            </summary>
        </news>

        <news id="2">
            <title>Welcome Micka&#235;l Guessant to the Team</title>
            <author>Bruce Snyder</author>
            <date>24 Oct 2002</date>
            <time></time>
            <summary>
            Please welcome our newest addition to the Castor team of committers,
            Micka&#235;l Guessant! Micka&#235;l is a very welcome addition to the Castor
            JDO team.
            </summary>
        </news>

        <news id="1">
            <title>Bruce Snyder Promoted to Castor JDO Lead</title>
            <author>Keith Visco</author>
            <date>10 July 2002</date>
            <time></time>
            <summary>
            Bruce Snyder has taken over for Thomas Yip as the Castor JDO Project
            Lead. Bruce's name should be very familar to most Castor users as he
            has been an active contributor and committer to Castor JDO for more
            than a year.
            <br />
            <br />
            A very special Thanks to Thomas Yip for the great job he did and all
            the contributions he made to the project.
            </summary>
        </news>

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