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The public draft of Bean Validation is finally out and available here on the JCP website. We have made a lot of improvements and took a lot of feedback from you since the last draft:

I am please to announce the GA release of Hibernate Search 3.1. This release focuses on performance improvement and code robustness but also add interesting new features focused on usability:

Hibernate Search 3.1.0.CR1 is out. Download it here.

Hibernate Search 3.1 beta2 is out with a significant focus on performance improvements, scalability and API clean up.

Until now, it was not possible or easy to reuse constraints to make more complex constraints.

We have been recently working a lot on the Bean Validation spec (JSR 303) and have two good news for you:

After the release of Hibernate Core 3.3.0.GA last week, we are releasing aligned versions of its sister projects. These releases are primarily ensuring that everything works property on Core 3.3. They also improved a few other things:

I will be talking about Web Beans at JSF.One September 4-6 in Washington and QCon San Francisco 2008 about Hibernate and scalability.

It has been a long time since an Hibernate Search release but we have not been lazy. We are pleased to announce 3.1.0 Beta1 with tons of new features and enhancements. This release uses Lucene 2.3.x and works with Hibernate Core 3.3, Hibernate Annotations 3.4 and Hibernate EntityManager 3.4. Here is a list of some of the major new features and enhancements:

The Rotterdam JBug is happening June 20th and import.sql is a pretty neat feature for unit testing. Two unrelated infos in one entry today, let's call it macroblogging!