[Springframework-developer] Acegi Security - new release 0.7.0

[Ben A. <ben...@ac...>]

Dear Spring Community

I'm pleased to announce the Acegi Security System for Spring release 
0.7.0 is now available from http://acegisecurity.sourceforge.net. The 
project provides comprehensive security services for The Spring 
Framework. You can read about the features in detail at 
http://acegisecurity.sourceforge.net.

There are many changes, improvements and fixes in release 0.7.0 (as 
listed at http://acegisecurity.sourceforge.net/changes-report.html). The 
major new feature areas are:

* Significant improvements to ACL security services
* AspectJ support (useful for instance-level security)
* Refactoring of ObjectDefinitionSources (especially useful for web URI 
security)
* Automatic propagation of security identity via RMI and HttpInvoker
* Integration with Servlet Spec's getRemoteUser()
* Refactoring of Contacts sample to use the new ACL security services
* Additional event publishing (now includes authorisation, not just 
authentication)
* CVS restructure to use Maven as the build system
* A new project web site with FAQs, links to external articles etc

The new ACL security services deserve special mention, as they make it 
possible to develop applications that require complex instance-based 
security without any custom code. The entire configuration of such 
applications can be declared in the IoC container using standard Acegi 
Security services, so this should help significantly improve 
architecture and development time.

As per the Apache APR project versioning guidelines, this is a major 
release. We expect the next major release will be 1.0.0, although 
release 0.7.0 should be considered stable enough for most projects to 
use. There are detailed upgrade instructions included in the release ZIP 
and on the Acegi Security home page.

For Maven users, Acegi Security's latest JARs are available from 
http://acegisecurity.sourceforge.net/maven/acegisecurity/jars. We will 
also be adding release 0.7.0 and above to iBiblio.

We hope you find this new release useful in your projects.

Best regards
Ben