Without further ado, Hibernate Validator 4.3.0.Final is available for download in the JBoss Maven Repository under the GAV org.hibernate:hibernate-validator:4.3.0.Final or via SourceForge.

The changelog for this version does not contain much, so let me summarize the most important changes of Hibernate Validator 4.3

• The package structure got refactored to separate clearly between API, SPI and internal classes. Doing though we deprecated some classes. Make sure to migrate to the new types when upgrading to 4.3 read more
• slf4j got replaced by JBoss Logging as the main logging framework read more
• A bunch of new and improved constraints, e.g. MOD11, CNPJ, CPF and TituloEleitoral read more
• A bunch of performance and quality improvements, in particular we addressed issues around metadata caching read more
• The Hibernate Validator Annotation Processor can now be used without any additional dependencies which makes it setup easier read more
• Hibernate Validator 4.3 requires now a Java 6 or 7 runtime

Please check also the Hibernate Validator Migration Guide.

Last but not least, thanks to everyone who was lending a helping hand during the development of Hibernate Validator 4.3 (in case you wanted to help, but missed out - why not helping by translating the documentation? Join the Hibernate Validator project on Zanata and get started...).

Enjoy!

P.S. In case you are waiting for a Validator release which aligns with the first draft of Bean Validation 1.1, have an eye on the JBoss snapshot repository. An initial hibernate-validator-5.0.0-SNAPSHOT won't be far off.

A bugfix release for Hibernate Search 4.1 ! Some of you have been reporting reduced performance after migrating from 3.4 or 4.0, which was not expected at all as the internals got smarter at each release. It turns out there was a quite critical bug: file handle leaks.

Big thanks to Bostjan Lah for reporting this problem and providing a nice test to let me reproduce the problem, and to Jan Slezak for all the help verifying the solution. Also Michael Heinrichs reported an issue with programmatic configuration and fixed it, awesome!

What changed compared to 4.1.0.Final?

Besides the important bugfixes, not much changed as expected for minor releases: mostly documentation clarifications, some classloader issues which would affect you only when embedding it in a JBoss Module. For a detailed list see the JIRA changelogs.

We strongly recommend to upgrade; see also the Migration Guide.

The usual links:

• Download it from Sourceforge or via Maven artifacts
• Get in touch on the forums or on the mailing list
• Help out: have a look at JIRA and get the code from GitHub

Excited about JBoss AS 7.1 in the cloud? JBoss AS 7.1 is now available on OpenShift and provides a small memory footprint and lightning fast startup times.

OpenShift is a free Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that enables developers to get deployed to the cloud without having to worry about downloading and managing the stack, writing scripts or installing agents. You can build your applications using the built in Jenkins support, easily add persistence, like MySQL or MongoDB, test using Arquillian or deploy from JBDS.

Getting started simply requires signing up for OpenShift.

To celebrate the availability of JBoss AS 7.1 on OpenShift, we've put together a series of 6 videos. Learn how to build a mobile ready application, deployed to OpenShift in 5 minutes. Deploy REST services to the cloud, and consume them. Add a portal, courtesy of the GateIn project. Add very high performance messaging, from HornetQ. Or add atomic transactions over Web Services.

And that's on top of the web profile support, available for about a year!

Enjoy!

Finally Labour day holidays came to an end, and I'm happy to announce we did a new Weld release during the holidays (thanks Stuart!)

We (me) over did it a bit on Decorators validation, which showed in increased deployment time. So this release mostly addresses this issue.

But we also fixed a few other pesky issues.

• Release notes

Feedback welcome as always!

This week podcast we are back with some short news around JBoss.org and Emmanuel and I also sat down with Bob M., Lance B. and Dan A. to talk about Awestruct - a dynamic tool for making static sites.

Show notes and episode downloads are at Asylum Website

Enjoy!