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I've just published a release candidate for Weld 1.1.0, the reference implementation of JSR-299: Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java EE. It's based on the CDI 1.0 API. You can find direct download links at the bottom of this post or you can pull the artifacts from the JBoss Maven Repository.

This is the latest release before Hibernate Search 3.3 Final. Please test it before next tuesday as we have change some sensitive parts (for better performance).

Hibernate Metamodel Generator 1.1.1.Final is available for download from the JBoss Maven repo or from SourceForge. This micro release addresses METAGEN-49 which can cause a ConcurrentModificationException in cases where xml and annotation based configuration are mixed. Hopefully this bug did not cause too much trouble.

I'm pleased to announce the availability of Seam Security 3.0.0 Alpha1. This release is a major rework of the security features from Seam 2.x, so I apologise in advance for the epic release notes. First the important stuff:

There were a number of comments on twitter and blogs last week discussing Weld's performance and scalability, and I wanted to comment on the issues discussed and our work to resolve them. Upfront, let me say that we have been actively working on performance and scalability for a while now (previously more on memory usage, more recently on performance). Of course, we work primarily with JBoss AS, but also work closely with the GlassFish team; many of the improvements will be directly available as Weld is updated in GlassFish, and we'll continue to support the GlassFish team in any performance work they do on GlassFish that impacts on Weld.

Infinispan and Seam are doing it again. We're hosting a community social in the midst of Europe's premier Java conference, Devoxx (in Antwerp, Belgium). This year we'll be joined by Arquillian to keep things under control (you don't want to make Ike mad).

Hibernate has moved to Git (hosted on GitHub) for source control. That has been well documented. I wanted describe the approach Hibernate takes to branching, versioning and releasing as it is something that has come up a number of times, even prior to the move to Git.