[ANN] Pluto 1.0.1 RC4 Released

["David H. DeWolf" <dd...@apache.org>]

The Apache Portals Project and the Pluto Team are proud to announce the 
immediate availability of Apache Pluto version 1.0.1 RC4.  Pluto is the 
reference implementation of the Java Portlet Specification (JSR-168). 
This release is intended to resolve issues related to the rc3 
distribution as well as many bug fixes.

Release notes are below.  Downloads are available through:

http://portals.apache.org/pluto/mirrors.cgi


Regards,


The Apache Pluto Team


Release Notes - Pluto - Version 1.0.1-rc4
------------------------------------------------------------

** Bug
     * [PLUTO-128] - Pluto does not provide access to OutputStream
     * [PLUTO-131] - Login link in portal is broken
     * [PLUTO-133] - ServiceManager  - Javadoc


** Improvement
     * [PLUTO-130] - 
PortletApplicationEntity.getPortletApplicationDefinition() causes NPE 
when the portletentityregistry.xml references a portlet that doesn't exist.
     * [PLUTO-138] - Pluto does not compile under J2SE 1.4



Release Notes - Pluto - Version 1.0.1-rc3
-------------------------------------------------------------

** Bug
     * [PLUTO-71] - Login link on Release Candidate home page is 
inappropriate
     * [PLUTO-83] - PortletRequestImpl assumes request attributes are 
namespaced
     * [PLUTO-90] - PortletContextImp.getRequestDispatcher relies on a 
bug in tomcat 4
     * [PLUTO-91] - ActionResponseImpl.sendRedirect should check for 
valid argument
     * [PLUTO-95] - pluto-src-1.0.1-rc2\testsuite\project.xml contains 
reference to 1.0.1-rc1
     * [PLUTO-97] - Custom WindowStates and PortletModes do not work 
with tag library
     * [PLUTO-100] - getPortletOutputStream cannot handle multi-byte 
character
     * [PLUTO-105] - 1.0.1-rc2 tagged code does not build correctly
     * [PLUTO-109] - Input for RC3 - Maven does not patch automatically 
$CATALINA_HOME/conf/server.xml to enable Application Scoped session 
attributes.
     * [PLUTO-113] - HttpServletRequest.getAttribute returns namespaced 
attribute names
     * [PLUTO-115] - introduction.jsp violates JSP spec
     * [PLUTO-116] - Out of date docs for building Pluto w/o testsuite
     * [PLUTO-125] - Pluto is based on Tomcat 5.5, not on 5.0 as stated 
in Binary Distribution
     * [PLUTO-132] - incorrect VariableInfo scope specification for 
exported url variable from PortletURL Tags

** New Feature
     * [PLUTO-96] - Stylesheet conforming to PLT C of JSR-168 specification
     * [PLUTO-103] - Administrative interface for deploying portlets to 
Pluto

** Improvement
     * [PLUTO-82] - PortalURL tied to single host specified in properties
     * [PLUTO-89] - portlet.tld should be shipped in jar
     * [PLUTO-102] - Minor fix to Eclipse .classpath, commons-digester 
1.5->1.6
     * [PLUTO-127] - misc documentation problems and Maven instructions