[Springframework-developer] Acegi Security - new release 0.8.0 and subproject status

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

Dear Spring Community

I'm pleased to make the following two announcements:

* Acegi Security will become a Spring subproject from release 1.0.0.
* Acegi Security release 0.8.0 is now available.

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OFFICIAL SUBPROJECT STATUS
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Official subproject status means a closer relationship with the Spring 
Core project, broader adoption in Spring-powered projects, and the 
availability of quality professional services via Interface 21. A 
separate announcement will be published in the near future with 
additional details.

Rod Johnson comments: "Subproject status for Acegi Security is overdue. 
Its quality and flexible design makes it a worthy part of the Spring 
family, and it exhibits the architectural consistency our users expect. 
Security is a core concern in the enterprise, and as in so many other 
areas a good generic framework offers tremendous value to developers. 
We're already seeing a lot of interest in the community and among our 
clients, and expect that adoption will progress in leaps and bounds with 
the 1.0.0 release."

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RELEASE 0.8.0
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There are many improvements and fixes in release 0.8.0 (as listed at 
http://acegisecurity.sourceforge.net/changes-report.html). New features 
include:

* Significant simplification of filter setup
* Anonymous authentication support
* Remember-me authentication support
* Concurrent login prevention support
* Digest authentication support (safer than BASIC authentication)
* Source ZIPs for easier IDE integration, and nightly CVS snapshots
* Various other fixes and improvements

Most of these new features were added as a direct result of community 
feedback. We always welcome your feedback and suggestions.

As per the Apache APR project versioning guidelines, this is a major 
release. We definitely expect the next major release will be 1.0.0, 
although release 0.8.0 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. Release 
0.8.0 will be added to iBiblio very shortly.

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FURTHER INFORMATION
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Please visit http://acegisecurity.sourceforge.net to learn more about 
Acegi Security's features, browse online documentation, or download the 
latest release.

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

Cheers
Ben