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        <news id="53">
            <title>Castor 1.0.5 released</title>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <date>Nov 11 2006</date>
            <time>20:22:21</time>
            <summary>
                I've placed a copy of Castor 1.0.5 at the
                <a href="http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/1.0.5/">Codehaus</a>.<br/><br/>

                This is mainly a maintenance release. For details about all features added and 
                bugs fixed, please have a look at the 
                <a href="release-notes.html">release notes</a>. 
            </summary>
        </news>
        <news id="52">
            <title>Welcome Edward Kuns to the team</title>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <date>27 Oct 2006</date>
            <time>19:20:19</time>
            <summary>
            I'd very happy to announce that <i>Edward Kuns</i> has joined the Castor
            team as committer. Edward's initial focus will be on the XML code generator, where he 
            has already contributed numerous patches fixing existing issues and 
            refactoring the current codebase to increase the overall quality of the 
            product.
            </summary>
        </news>
        <news id="51">
            <title>Castor 1.0.4 released</title>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <date>Oct 22 2006</date>
            <time>20:22:21</time>
            <summary>
                I've placed a copy of Castor 1.0.4 at the
                <a href="http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/1.0.4/">Codehaus</a>.<br/><br/>

                This is mainly a maintenance release, with more than 100 bug fixes in all 
                areas of the product, with a heavy emphasis on the XML code generation 
                area.<br/><br/>
                
                For details about all features added and bugs fixed, please have a look 
                at the <a href="release-notes.html">release notes</a>. 
            </summary>
        </news>
        <news id="50">
            <title>Snapshot release of Spring factory beans for Castor XML available</title>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <date>Sep 10 2006</date>
            <time>17:18:19</time>
            <summary>
                I've made a first snapshot release of the new <b>Spring factory beans 
                for Castor XML</b> available. This new module provides seamless integration 
                of several Castor XML artefacts (e.g. its Un- and Marshaller components) into 
                the application framework <a href="http://www.springframework.org">Spring</a>.<br/><br/>

                
                - <a href="download.html#Castor-XML-Spring-factory-beans">Download instructions</a><br/>
                - An (initial) <a href="spring-xml-intro.html">introduction</a> to this new 
                        feature, including several small HOW-TOs.
                
            </summary>
        </news>
        <news id="49">
            <title>Castor 1.0.3 released</title>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <date>Sep 07 2006</date>
            <time>20:22:21</time>
            <summary>
                I've placed a copy of Castor 1.0.3 at the
                <a href="http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/1.0.3/">Codehaus</a>.<br/><br/>

                This is mainly a maintenance release, with some noticeable bug fixes
                in the XML code generation area (incl some restructuring of the HTML docs in 
                this very area as well).<br/><br/>
                
                For details about this addition in particular, and all other features added and bugs 
				fixed, please have a look at the <a href="release-notes.html">release notes</a>. 
            </summary>
        </news>
        <news id="48">
            <title>Castor 1.0.2 released</title>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <date>Aug 03 2006</date>
            <time>20:22:21</time>
            <summary>
                I've placed a copy of Castor 1.0.2 at the
                <a href="http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/1.0.2/">Codehaus</a>.<br/><br/>

                Whilst this is mainly a maintenance release, the XML source generator
				has been extended to add support for Java 5.0 source code generation. For 
				details about this addition in particular, and all other features added and bugs 
				fixed, please have a look at the 
                <a href="release-notes.html">release notes</a>. 
            </summary>
        </news>
        <news id="47">
            <title>Spring ORM for Castor JDO RC1 released</title>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <date>Jul 06 2006</date>
            <time>20:22:21</time>
            <summary>
                I've placed the first release candidate of the Spring ORM 
                implementation for Castor JDO at the 
                <a href="http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/">Codehaus</a>.<br/><br/>

                For details about the functionality provided, please have a 
                look at the <a href="castor-spring-site/">documentation</a>. 
            </summary>
        </news>
        <news id="46">
            <title>Work on JPA 3.0 support started</title>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <date>Jun 25 2006</date>
            <time>10:11:12</time>
            <summary>
				Work has been started on adding support for the Java Persistence 
                Architecture (JPA) 3.0 to Castor JDO.<br/><br/>

                The SVN repository is available at 
                <a href="http://svn.codehaus.org/castor/castor-jpa/trunk">http://svn.codehaus.org/castor/castor-jpa/trunk</a>
            </summary>
        </news>
        <news id="45">
            <title>Castor 1.0.1 released</title>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <date>Jun 08 2006</date>
            <time>20:22:21</time>
            <summary>
                I've placed a copy of Castor 1.0.1 at the
                <a href="http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/1.0.1/">Codehaus</a>.<br/><br/>

                This is mainly a maintenance release. For details about features added 
                and bugs fixed, please have a look at the 
                <a href="release-notes.html">release notes</a>. 
            </summary>
        </news>
        <news id="44">
            <title>Mailing list subscriptions</title>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <date>Jun 02 2006</date>
            <time>20:07:43</time>
            <summary>
                Can I please ask everybody to check her (his) mailing list 
                subscriptions at 
                <a href="http://xircles.codehaus.org">http://xircles.codehaus.org</a>.
                It looks like, due to the Codehaus problems a few weeks ago, we 
                might have lost some (though not many) mailing list subscriptions.<br/><br/>
                
                We do apologize for any inconvenience caused ....
            </summary>
        </news>
        <news id="43">
            <title>Jira and notifications</title>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <date>May 30 2006</date>
            <time>20:07:43</time>
            <summary>
                This is a short message for those who have created Jira issues in the
                past two or three months or so, or have commented upon existing issues.<br/><br/>
                
                It looks like during some Jira upgrade a few months ago, a couple of
                Jira settings got disabled. As a result, the original reporter of a Jira
                issue did not get notified about any changes to the issue (incl. e.g.
                state changes, comments, questions, etc.).<br/><br/>
                
                I have now reconfigured the notification scheme attached to the Castor
                Jira instance so that the following entities will receive notification
                emails upon a change to an issue:<br/><br/>
                
                - The SCM mailing list (somewhat high traffic)<br/>
                - The reporter of the issue<br/>
                - The assignee of the issue<br/>
                - All watchers.<br/><br/>
                
                I hope that this will shorten feedback loops substantially in the
                future, and I would like to ask people who created issues in the last
                two or three months to 'manually' scan the issues they created for
                updates et alias.            
            </summary>
        </news>
        <news id="42">
            <title>Castor up again ...</title>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <date>May 23 2006</date>
            <time>20:07:43</time>
            <summary>
                As you might (not) have noticed, all the project-related infrastructure
                (mailing lists, SVN repository, HTML docs, binaries etc.) has been
                off-line due to a hard disk failure on one of the Codehaus
                servers. As a result of a lot of dedication from the Codehaus folks, 
                we are as of now in a position to re-start life as usual.<br/><br/>
                
                Please note that there's still a few minor issues related to things
                being setup and/or re-instated as we speak. As such, we won't be
                updating some HTML docs immediately, as a few things have not come to
                reach final stability yet.<br/><br/>
                
                Please watch this page and the mailing list(s) for more updates.
            </summary>
        </news>
        <news id="41">
            <title>Castor and Google Summer of Code</title>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <date>May 05 2006</date>
            <time>20:07:43</time>
            <summary>
                We are proud to participate in the 
                <a href="http://code.google.com/soc/">Summer of Code initiative</a>
                sponsored by <a href="http://www.google.com">Google</a>, and you 
                are invited to join in the fun.<br/><br/>
                
                At 
                <a href="http://docs.codehaus.org/display/CASTOR/CastorSocProjects">Codehaus</a>,
                you'll find some suggestions we find suitable for the program, and per
                definition we would be glad to support a few projects.<br/><br/>
                
                Please understand, though, that mentoring capacities will be limited,
                though we will try to dedicate as much time as possible to the suggested
                projects. That implies that we depend on your dedication during the
                preparation of the detailed specification and description of the outcome.<br/><br/>
                
                The timeframe for applications is May 1 - May 8. So have a look at the
                projects at offer, before you are sign up to the program and apply as a
                student to be mentored by us.
            </summary>
        </news>
        <news id="40">
            <title>New source repository</title>
            <author>Ralf Joachim</author>
            <date>Apr 16 2006</date>
            <time>13:07:43</time>
            <summary>
                On April 14. 2006 we have migrated Castor source repository from CVS
                to SVN. At the moment we still have read only access to CVS but this
                does not reflect commits to SVN after the migration. The read only
                access to CVS is intended for you to create patches of your current
                work and move it over to SVN. Be aware that we will switch off CVS soon.

                For details about SVN access please have a look at: 
                <a href="scm.html">SVN/JIRA</a>.
            </summary>
        </news>
        <news id="39">
            <title>Castor 1.0 (final) released</title>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <date>Apr 06 2006</date>
            <time>23:22:21</time>
            <summary>
                I've placed a copy of the final Castor 1.0 release at the
                <a href="http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/1.0/">Codehaus</a>.<br/><br/>

                For details about features added and bugs fixed, please have a look at the 
                <a href="release-notes.html">release notes</a>.
            </summary>
        </news>
        <news id="38">
            <title>Castor 1.0M4 released</title>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <date>Mar 23 2006</date>
            <time>23:22:21</time>
            <summary>
                I've placed a copy of the Castor 1.0M4 release at the
                <a href="http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/1.0/">Codehaus</a>.<br/><br/>

                This is the fourth (and last) milestone build for the upcoming 1.0 release. For details about 
                the features added and the bugs fixed, please have a look at the 
                <a href="http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html">release notes</a>.
                
                Please note that we are imposing a feature/code freeze in preparation for the 
                final 1.0 release, which is currently scheduled for April 6, 2006.
            </summary>
        </news>
        <news id="37">
            <title>Castor 1.0M3 released</title>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <date>Mar 07 2006</date>
            <time>11:12:13</time>
            <summary>
                I've placed a copy of the Castor 1.0M3 release at the
                <a href="http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/1.0/">Codehaus</a>.<br/><br/>

                This is the third milestone build for the upcoming 1.0 release. For details about 
                the features added and the bugs fixed, please have a look at the 
                <a href="http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html">release notes</a>.
                    
                At the moment, we are planning for a last milestone release at the end of
                March 2006, after which we will impose a code freeze in preparation for the 
                final 1.0 release.
            </summary>
        </news>
        <news id="36">
            <title>Castor 1.0M2 released</title>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <date>Jan 03 2006</date>
            <time>11:12:13</time>
            <summary>
                I've placed a copy of the Castor 1.0M2 release at the
                <a href="http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/1.0/">Codehaus</a>.<br/><br/>

                This is the second milestone build for the upcoming 1.0 release. For details about 
                the features added and the bugs fixed, please have a look at the 
                <a href="http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html">release notes</a>.
                    
                At the moment, we are planning for a third milestone release at the end of
                February 2006.
            </summary>
        </news>
        <news id="35">
            <title>Castor 1.0M1 released</title>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <date>Dec 22 2005</date>
            <time>10:11:12</time>
            <summary>
                I've placed a copy of the Castor 1.0M1 release at the
                <a href="http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/1.0/">Codehaus</a>.<br/><br/>

                This is milestone build for the upcoming 1.0 release, as has no correlation 
                to Christmas at all .. ;-). For details about the features added and the 
                bugs fixed, please have a look at the 
                <a href="http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html">release notes</a>.
                    
                We are still planning for a final <b>Castor 1.0</b> release in January 2006.
            </summary>
        </news>
        <news id="34">
            <title>Castor 0.9.9.1 released</title>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <date>Nov 15 2005</date>
            <time>10:11:12</time>
            <summary>
                I've placed a copy of the Castor 0.9.9.1 release at the
                <a href="http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/0.9.9.1/">Codehaus</a>.<br/><br/>

                This is a maintenance release. For details about the features added and the bugs 
                fixed, please have a look at the 
                <a href="http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html">release notes</a>.
                    
                We are still planning for a <b>Castor 1.0</b> release in about 8+ weeks.
            </summary>
        </news>
        <news id="33">
            <title>Castor 0.9.9 - <b>Final</b> release</title>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <date>Sep 22 2005</date>
            <time>10:11:12</time>
            <summary>
                I've placed a copy of the <b>final</b> Castor 0.9.9 release at the
                <a href="http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/0.9.9/">Codehaus</a>.<br/><br/>

                This is a major feature release. For details about the features added and the bugs 
                fixed, please have a look at the 
                <a href="http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html">release notes</a>.
                    
                We are currently planning for a <b>Castor 1.0</b> release in about 8+ weeks, 
                which we mainly see as a bug fix release and a one-time opportunity 
                to get the HTML documentation into a better shape .. ;-). Please have a look 
                at <a href="http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR">the project roadmap</a> for
                details.<br/><br/>

                Please report any issues at <a href="http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR">the 
                Castor Jira site</a>.
            </summary>
        </news>
        <news id="32">
            <title>Castor 0.9.9 - 2nd milestone build</title>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <date>Sep 13 2005</date>
            <time>23:23:32</time>
            <summary>
                I've placed a copy of the <b>2nd</b> Castor 0.9.9 milestone build at the
                <a href="http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/0.9.9/">Codehaus</a>.<br/><br/>

                This is a bug fix release only. For details about the bugs fixed since the last 
                release candidate, please have a look at 
                <a href="http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR">the project roadmap</a> and 
                the interim version of the 
                <a href="http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html">release notes</a>.
            </summary>
        </news>
        <news id="31">
            <title>Castor 0.9.9 - 1st milestone build</title>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <date>Aug 24 2005</date>
            <time>23:23:32</time>
            <summary>
                I've placed a copy of the <b>1st</b> Castor 0.9.9 milestone build at the
                <a href="http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/0.9.9/">Codehaus</a>.<br/><br/>

                This is a major feature release. For details about the features added and the bugs 
                fixed, please have a look at <a href="http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR">the 
                project roadmap</a> and the interim version of the 
                <a href="http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html">release notes</a>.
                <br/><br/>

                This milestone will be replaced by a second milestone within a week,
                so please try this version and report any regression issues (where applicable).
            </summary>
        </news>
        <news id="30">
            <title>Castor 0.9.7 - Final release</title>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <date>Jun 08 2005</date>
            <time>14:15:21</time>
            <summary>
                I've placed a copy of Castor 0.9.7 (final) at 
                <a href="http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/0.9.7/">The Codehaus</a>.<br/><br/>

                This is mainly a maintenance release. For details about the bugs fixed and features 
                provided, please have a look at the <a href="release-notes.html">release notes</a>.<br/><br/>
                
                Please report any issues through the project's 
                <a href="http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR">issue tracking system</a> and/or the 
                mailing lists.
            </summary>
        </news>
        <news id="29">
            <title>Castor 0.9.7 - 1st milestone build</title>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <date>May 19 2005</date>
            <time>22:23:21</time>
            <summary>
                I've placed a copy of the <b>1st</b> Castor 0.9.7 milestone build at the
                <a href="http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/0.9.7/">Codehaus</a>.<br/><br/>

                This is a maintenance release for release 0.9.6 only. For details about the bugs 
                fixed, please have a look at <a href="http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR">the project roadmap</a>
                and the interim version of the <a href="http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html">release 
                notes</a>.<br/><br/>

                This milestone will be replaced by a second milestone within a week,
                so please try this version and report any regression issues (where applicable).
            </summary>
        </news>
        <news id="28">
            <title>Werner Guttmann Promoted to Castor JDO Lead</title>
            <author>Bruce Snyder</author>
            <date>19 May 2005</date>
            <time>08:04:00</time>
            <summary>
                After having lead Castor JDO since 2002, Bruce has decided to
                pass the torch to Werner Guttmann. Werner has been a force on 
                the project since he began contributing and his tireless efforts 
                are exactly what the project needs to continue. Congratulations, 
                Werner and keep up the great work! 
            </summary>
        </news>
        <news id="27">
            <title>New Castor roadmap</title>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <date>11 May 2005</date>
            <time>20:21:20</time>
            <summary>
                For information about upcoming Castor releases and future development areas in general, 
                please have a look at the 
                <a href="http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR?report=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project:roadmap-panel">Castor 
                roadmap</a>.<br/><br/>

                As it stands right now, this will reveal that we have scheduled two releases (0.9.7
                and 0.9.9) within the next 5 weeks, the former designated to be a maintenance release 
                for Castor 0.9.6, the latter planned as a feature release with quite some new 
                features and improvements to be added.
            </summary>
        </news>
        <news id="26">
            <title>Castor forums currently unavailable</title>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <date>20 Apr 2005</date>
            <time>22:21:20</time>
            <summary>
                Many of you will have recognized by now that the exolab.org 
                domain had been voided as of last Friday. As a result of this, 
                the Castor user forums are not available.
                
                Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience you are experiencing
                and rest assured that we are working to get it back online as soon 
                as possible.
            </summary>
        </news>
        <news id="25">
            <title>New issue tracking tool</title>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <date>20 Apr 2005</date>
            <time>21:20:19</time>
            <summary>
                This is to announce that we finally moved our issue tracking tool from
                <a href="http://bugzilla.exolab.org">Exolab Bugzilla</a> to the 
                <a href="http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR">Codehaus JIRA</a>.<br/><br/>
                
                We'd like to offer our apologies for any inconvenience you experienced 
                as a result of this migration and hope that you like our new 
                <a href="http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR">home for tracking 
                (and resolving) issues</a> as much as we do.
            </summary>
        </news>
        <news id="24">
            <title>How to submit a patch - New guidelines</title>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <date>08 Apr 2005</date>
            <time>21:22:21</time>
            <summary>
                This is to announce that we now provide unified instructions on 
                how to submit a patch at <url>http://castor.codehaus.org/how-to-submit-a-bug.html</url>. 
                To facilitate this task, we are now providing a template for Castor JDO 
                related patches that has been added to the CVS sources already.
            </summary>
        </news>
        <news id="23">
            <title>Support for polymorphism - A test drive</title>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <date>31 Mar 2005</date>
            <time>21:22:26</time>
            <summary>
                One of the major short-comings of Castor JDO always has been missing support for 
                polymorphism. After the 0.9.6 release back in Februray, which mainly focused on bug 
                fixing, we decided to tackle this missing feature and start work for adding 
                support for polymorphism to Castor JDO. For a complete history of the work done so 
                far and the tests conducted, please have a look at 
                <a href="http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ViewIssue.jspa?key=CASTOR-1018">bug 1881</a>.<br/><br/>

                As of last week, most of the work (originally initiated by myself) has been 
                finished, and we are now in a position where we'd like to ask you, our users, 
                for feedback. In other words, we think that the current implementation is stable enough 
                to make it available as described below. But as we want to get this new feature 
                as stable as possible before heading for a new release (most likely 0.9.7, but 
                maybe 1.0), we now need feedback from our users.<br/><br/>

                To facilitate this, I've made available binaries 
                <a href="http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/previews/0.9.6_with_polymorphism/">here</a>. 
                Please use the source distribution if possible, as it contains the tests mentioned above 
                as well.
            </summary>
        </news>
        <news id="22">
            <title>Mailing list changes</title>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <date>30 Mar 2005</date>
            <time>22:23:24</time>
            <summary>
                This is to announce that we finally moved our mailing lists to the 
                <a href="http://www.codehaus.org">Codehaus</a>. As part of this move, we moved 
                your subscriptions to spare you the work of having to re-subscribe. If you feel 
                that you are subscribed to one of the mailing lists by fault, please use the 
                below addresses to unsubscribe.<br/><br/>

                As of now, please use the following email addresses:<br/><br/>

                * User mailing list<br/><br/>

                  To post a message: <a href="user@castor.codehaus.org">user@castor.codehaus.org</a><br/>
                  To subscribe: <a href="user-subscribe@castor.codehaus.org">user-subscribe@castor.codehaus.org</a><br/>
                  To unsubscribe: <a href="user-unsubscribe@castor.codehaus.org">user-unsubscribe@castor.codehaus.org</a><br/>
                  Archive: <a href="http://archive.castor.codehaus.org/user">http://archive.castor.codehaus.org/user</a><br/><br/>

                * Announcement mailing list<br/><br/>

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            </summary>
        </news>
        <news id="21">
            <title>RSS feed available</title>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <date>11 Mar 2005</date>
            <time>21:22:23</time>
            <summary>
                We are happy to provide an RSS feed for announcements related to Castor  
                <a href="http://castor.codehaus.org/rss/castor-announcement.xml">here</a>. 
                This service basically mirrors the information provided at our 
                <a href="http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html">news page</a>.
            </summary>
        </news>
        <news id="20">
            <title>Castor - A new home</title>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <date>14 Feb 2005</date>
            <time>22:21:20</time>
            <summary>
                After over five years of <a href="http://www.exolab.org">Exolab</a> sponsoring Castor, 
                the Castor team recently decided to move the entire project to
                a <a href="http://castor.codehaus.org/">new home</a> at 
                the <a href="http://www.codehaus.org">Codehaus</a>. The team would like to thank 
                Exolab and it's parent company Intalio, Inc. for it's long-standing support of 
                the project.<br/><br/>
                
                Please use the below links for access to ...<br/><br/>
                
                - <a href="http://castor.codehaus.org">Main documentation</a><br/>
                - <a href="http://cvs.castor.codehaus.org">CVS Repository</a><br/>
                - <a href="http://dist.codehaus.org/castor">Download</a>
            </summary>
        </news>
        <news id="19">
            <title>Castor JDO - New committers</title>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <date>14 Feb 2005</date>
            <time>21:21:21</time>
            <summary>
                Please join me to welcome Gregory Block, Martin Fuchs, Ralf Joachim and Stein 
                as new committers for Castor JDO. I am more than happy to have them on board, as 
                all of them have shown their dedication to the project through numerous occasions 
                (incl. patches and willingness to spend time with myself ...).
                
                Details about the current and past committers (as well as contributors) 
                can be found at <a href="http://castor.codehaus.org/contributors.html">here</a>.
            </summary>
        </news>
        <news id="18">
            <title>Castor 0.9.6 - Final release</title>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <date>09 Feb 2005</date>
            <time>22:22:22</time>
            <summary>
                I've placed a copy of Castor 0.9.6 (final) on the
                <a href="http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/0.9.6/">FTP Server</a>.<br/><br/>

                This is mainly a bug fix release, but includes a couple of new features as
                well. For details about the bugs fixed and features provided, please have
                a look at the
                <a href="release-notes.html">release notes</a>.<br/><br/>
                
                Please report any issues through the project's 
                <a href="http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR">issue tracking system</a> and/or the 
                mailing lists.
            </summary>
        </news>
        <news id="17">
            <title>Castor 0.9.6 - 3rd release candidates</title>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <date>11 Jan 2005</date>
            <time>23:25:00</time>
            <summary>
                I've placed a copy of the <b>3rd</b> and <b>final</b> Castor 0.9.6 release candidate on the
                <a href="http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/0.9.6/">FTP Server</a>.<br/><br/>

                This is a bug fix release only. For details about the bugs fixed sinc the last 
                release candidate, please have a look at (an interim version of) the
                <a href="http://brainopolis.dnsalias.com/castorwiki/Wiki.jsp?page=ReleaseNotes096">release notes</a>.<br/><br/>

                The release candidate will be replaced by the official version within about a week, 
                so please try this version and report any regression issues (where applicable).
            </summary>
        </news>

        <news id="16">
            <title>Castor 0.9.5.4 Final Release</title>
            <author>Keith Visco</author>
            <date>18 Nov 2004</date>
            <time>17:45:00</time>
            <summary>
                I've placed a copy of Castor 0.9.5.4 final on the
                <a href="http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/0.9.5.4/">FTP Server</a>.

                This is a bug fix release, so please do not expect new features
                slated for 0.9.6 to appear in this release.

                Sorry for the delay in officially announcing the release, it's actually been
                available on the FTP Server for a couple weeks now!
            </summary>
        </news>

        <news id="15">
            <title>Castor 0.9.6 Release Candidates</title>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <date>28 Oct 2004</date>
            <time>23:55:00</time>
            <summary>
                I've placed a copy of the first Castor 0.9.6 release candidate on the
                <a href="http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/0.9.6/">FTP Server</a>.<br/><br/>

                This is mainly a bug fix release, but includes a couple of new features as
                well. For details about the bugs fixed and features provided, please have
                a look at (an interim version of) the
                <a href="http://brainopolis.dnsalias.com/castorwiki/Wiki.jsp?page=ReleaseNotes096">release notes</a>.<br/><br/>

                The release candidate will be replaced by the official version within the
                next three or four weeks, so please try this version and report any
                regression issues (where applicable). A regression for this release is something
                that was working in 0.9.5.4 but no longer is working in this 0.9.6 release
                candidate. Only regression issues will be considered for fixing before the final
                0.9.6 release.<br/><br/>

                All other bugs will be moved out to 0.9.7, or a 0.9.6.x sub-release if necessary.
            </summary>
        </news>

        <news id="14">
            <title>Castor 0.9.5.4 Release Candidates</title>
            <author>Keith Visco</author>
            <date>18 Oct 2004</date>
            <time>22:00:00</time>
            <summary>

                I've placed a copy of the latest Castor 0.9.5.4 release candidate on the
                <a href="http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/0.9.5.4/">FTP Server</a>.

                This is a bug fix release, so please do not expect new features
                slated for 0.9.6 to appear in this release. The release candidate
                will be replaced by the official version by end of the week, so
                please try this version and report any regression issues. A
                regression for this release is something that was working in 0.9.5.3
                but no longer working in this 0.9.5.4 release candidate. Only
                regression issues will be considered for fixing before the final
                release. All other bugs will be moved out to 0.9.6, or a 0.9.5.5
                release if necessary.

            </summary>
        </news>

        <news id="13">
            <title>Castor Message Board</title>
            <author>Keith Visco</author>
            <date>04 Jul 2004</date>
            <time>05:00:00</time>
            <summary>
               The Castor site now has a new
               <a href="http://castor.org/phpBB2">message board</a>.
               <br/>
               <br/>
               Message boards are typically more user-friendly than mailing lists
               as they keeps the information in a much more organized fashion and don't
               add to our ever increasing inboxes.
               <br/>
               The mailing lists will continue to remain open and you can choose which
               ever communication method you prefer.
            </summary>
        </news>
        <news id="12">
            <title>CastorLive Book in the Works</title>
            <author>Bruce Snyder</author>
            <date>20 Jun 2004</date>
            <time>08:15:44</time>
            <summary>
            Bruce Snyder is now authoring <a href="http://www.sourcebeat.com/TitleAction.do?id=8">Castor
            Live</a> for <a href="http://www.sourcebeat.com/">SourceBeat
            Publishing</a>. The first cut of the book will be out by the end
            of the July containing the first few chapters.
            <br />
            <br />
            The SourceBeat model is very different from traditional publishing because books
            are published online and <i>updated every month</i> by the author! Subscribers to
            a book receive a one year subscription and receive all updates to the title for that
            year. Also check out the <a href="http://jroller.org/page/CastorLive">Castor Live blog</a>
            for additional information.
            </summary>
        </news>
        <news id="11">
            <release />
            <title>Current Release</title>
            <author>Keith Visco</author>
            <date>10 Apr 2004</date>
            <time></time>
            <summary>
                Version 0.9.5.3 is now <a href="download.xml">available for download</a>.

                <!-- Release Candidate Info  ** use when doing interim releases -->
                <!--
                <p>We've placed a copy of Castor X.Y.Z release candidate N on the ftp site:
                <a href="ftp://ftp.exolab.org/pub/castor/castor_x.y.z/">ftp://ftp.exolab.org/pub/castor/castor_x.y.z/</a>.
                Please try this release and report any regression issues (preferably via Bugzilla).
                A regression is something that was working in a previous release (such as 0.9.5.2)
                but doesn't work in this release candidate. Please do not report issues that already
                have bug reports, but haven't been fixed yet in 0.9.5.3. These issues simply
                did not make the X.Y.Z release due to time constraints.
                </p>
                -->
                <br /><br />
                <a href="changelog.xml">Changes in 0.9.5.3</a>
            </summary>
        </news>

        <news id="10">
            <release />
            <title>Next Release</title>
            <author>Keith Visco</author>
            <date>10 Mar 2004</date>
            <time>04:19:15</time>
            <summary>
            Next scheduled release (0.9.6): June, 7 2004 (tentative).
            </summary>
        </news>

        <news id="9">
            <release />
            <title>Possible Interim Release</title>
            <author>Keith Visco</author>
            <date>10 Mar 2004</date>
            <time>04:19:15</time>
            <summary>
            An interim release (0.9.5.4) may be released sooner for any
            regression issues still present in 0.9.5.3.
            </summary>
        </news>

        <news id="8">
            <title>Welcome Stein Hugubakken to the Team</title>
            <author>Bruce Snyder</author>
            <date>01 May 2004</date>
            <time>13:06:24</time>
            <summary>
            Please welcome Stein Hugubakken as the latest addition to team
            Castor! Stein has been active with Castor since early this year
            and we're very happy to have him on board.
            </summary>
        </news>

        <news id="7">
            <title>Welcome Patrick van Kaan to the Team</title>
            <author>Bruce Snyder</author>
            <date>15 Jan 2004</date>
            <time>22:58:39</time>
            <summary>
            Please welcome Patrick van Kaan as the latest addition to team
            Castor! Patrick has been using Castor JDO for a while now and
            is the developer behind the <a href="http://castor-taglib.sourceforge.net/">Castor-Taglib</a>
            project.
            </summary>
        </news>

        <news id="6">
            <title>Welcome Werner Guttmann to the Team</title>
            <author>Bruce Snyder</author>
            <date>11 Nov 2003</date>
            <time>18:38:10</time>
            <summary>
            Please welcome Werner Guttman as the newest committer to the Castor
            team! Werner's contributions moving forward with the Castor JDO
            refactoring are key, as is his experience with J2EE and IBM WebSphere.
            </summary>
        </news>

        <news id="5">
            <title>CastorWiki Now Available</title>
            <author>Keith Visco</author>
            <date>19 Jun 2003</date>
            <time>16:39:17</time>
            <summary>
            Can't find it here? Check out the
            <a href="http://www.brainopolis.com/castorwiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Main">CastorWiki</a>.
            An effort put together by a number of Castor users to document the
            undocumented! Hosted off site by Lance Lavandowska, and championed
            by Tek1 (whose real name is a mystery to us all!).
            </summary>
        </news>

        <news id="4">
            <title>RefactorIt to Include Castor</title>
            <author>Keith Visco</author>
            <date>12 Mar 2003</date>
            <time></time>
            <summary>
            We're pleased to announce that the folks at
            <a href="http://www.refactorit.com/index.html?id=649">RefactorIt</a>
            have included Castor as part of their Open Source Community License.
            This means anyone who works on the Castor code base can download a
            copy of RefactorIt and use it when working on the Castor code.
            </summary>
        </news>

        <news id="3">
            <title>Congratulations Bruce!</title>
            <author>Keith Visco</author>
            <date>14 Nov 2002</date>
            <time></time>
            <summary>
            <b>Congratulations</b> to Bruce Snyder and his family on the birth
            of their second daughter, the youngest member of the Castor team,
            we can't wait until she's old enough to start programming!
            </summary>
        </news>

        <news id="2">
            <title>Welcome Micka&#235;l Guessant to the Team</title>
            <author>Bruce Snyder</author>
            <date>24 Oct 2002</date>
            <time></time>
            <summary>
            Please welcome our newest addition to the Castor team of committers,
            Micka&#235;l Guessant! Micka&#235;l is a very welcome addition to the Castor
            JDO team.
            </summary>
        </news>

        <news id="1">
            <title>Bruce Snyder Promoted to Castor JDO Lead</title>
            <author>Keith Visco</author>
            <date>10 July 2002</date>
            <time></time>
            <summary>
            Bruce Snyder has taken over for Thomas Yip as the Castor JDO Project
            Lead. Bruce's name should be very familar to most Castor users as he
            has been an active contributor and committer to Castor JDO for more
            than a year.
            <br />
            <br />
            A very special Thanks to Thomas Yip for the great job he did and all
            the contributions he made to the project.
            </summary>
        </news>

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