Re: [ANNOUNCE] Availability of Geronimo 2.1.7

[Ashish Jain <as...@gmail.com>]

Congrats everyone for this new release and thanks to Rex in bringing out
this new release.

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Rex Wang <rw...@gmail.com> wrote:

> The Apache Geronimo project is pleased to announce the available of Apache
> Geronimo v2.1.7 server. This release includes many new features,
> improvements, and bug fixes. Please see the detail information in the
> release notes:
>
> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/geronimo/server/tags/geronimo-2.1.7/RELEASE_NOTES-2.1.7.txt
>
> A couple highlights are:
> * Provide Generic Header based authentication support
> * Add db2 for iSeries tranql xa connector to server
> * Start Derby NetworkServerControl with credentials to prevent unauthorized
> shutdowns
> * Upgrade Tomcat to 6.0.29, wadi to 2.1.2, tranql to 1.7, OpenEJB to 3.0.3,
> txmanager to 2.2.1 etc.
>
>
> The individual jars and plugins have been available through maven
> repository, and you can also download the source jar and assemblies in
> http://www.apache.org/dist/geronimo/2.1.7/
>
> I have posted a news along with the downloads page in our confluence,
> however it may need some time to sync to home page.
>
> A big THANK YOU to all that contributed to this release!  Great work
> everyone!
>
> --
> Lei Wang (Rex)
> rwonly AT apache.org
>