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This is a pretty big day for the Hibernate family. We welcome three new top level projects:

Exadel and JBoss are partnering to build a unified development environment for enterprise Java, comparable to Microsoft's .Net. Please read the announcement here:

This release was not meant to be such a big one. We had originally intended to call it 1.1.7, but when we sat down and looked at the size of the changelog since the 1.1.6 release, we realized that there were simply too many changes for a point release. So it got a very last minute rebranding ;-)

Seam 1.2 introduces many improvements including out of the box integration with the Spring Framework, EL support in HQL/EJB-QL, entity level security, SSL redirection, simplified configuration, improvements to orchestation via pages.xml and many enhancements to seam-gen, including support for composite keys and circular associations and integration of Ajax4JSF.

By the way, my favorite new Seam 1.2 feature is this one:

Seam 1.1.6 features several important bugfixes and new features for Seam/Security, including remember me functionality, integration of JCaptcha, support for automatic redirects to and from the login page when authorization checks fail and a minor API redesign. Seam's exception handling facility was totally redesigned, to be much more robust and work better with Seam/Security. Also, the seam-gen tool now integrates Seam/Security. This work was all based upon the huge volume of user feedback we received since the 1.1.5 release.

Seam 1.1.5, despite the strange version number, includes exciting new functionality including:

Micheal wrote an excellent overview of the new features in 1.1.5:

I just noticed that of the 1630 downloads of Seam since the release of 1.1.1 on Thursday, only 666 were of Seam 1.1.1. So I must have somehow fluffed the release announcement. (PST is a horrible timezone for announcing things.)