Kito, Ian, and Daniel discuss new releases from Spring, JBoss, ICEsoft, PrimeFaces, Apache, IBM, and TypeSafe. They also discuss build tools, the future of JSF, Daniel’s languagematrix project, and the Mojarra web site. Daniel’s project: language-matrix: Code snippets to do useful things for 11 languages: C, C++, Groovy, Ruby, Java, Scala, Python, Haskell, Javascript, Lisp, Clojure. New Releases Spring Spring Framework 4.0.4 released Spring Integration 4.0 Released Spring Social 1.1.0 Released Spring Boot 1.0.2.RELEASE Available Now Spring Batch 2.2.6.RELEASE is now available Spring AMQP 1.3 Released Groovy 2.3 Released JBoss Teiid 8.7 Final Released Weld 2.2 (CDI 1.2 reference implementation) released! JBoss Tools Integration Stack 4.1.4.Final / JBoss Developer Studio Integration Stack 7.0.1.GA ModeShape 3.7.2.Final is available Hibernate ORM 4.2.12.Final Released Immutant 1.1.1 Released Forge 2.4.1.Final (Roasted) Released Arquillian AngularJS 1.2.0.Alpha1 Released JavaServer Faces MyFaces Core v2.2.3 Released PrimeFaces 5 Released PrimeFaces Elite 4.0.13 Released PrimeFaces Extensions 2.0 Released RichFaces 4.3.6.Final Released ICEfaces 4.0 Beta Released! Apache Apache Lucene 4.8.0 released Apache Solr 4.8.0 released Apache Portable Runtime 1.5.1 released Apache Archiva 1.3.8 released Apache jClouds 1.7.2 released Apache Commons Lang 3.3.2 released Apache CouchDB 1.5.1 released Apache Syncope 1.0.9 and 1.1.7 released Apache Tomcat 7.0.53 released Apache Struts Zero Day Vulnerability IBM Announcing IBM Codename: BlueMix for Eclipse Beta WebSphere Application Server Migration Toolkit – Liberty Tech Preview Announcing: April betas for Liberty profile and WebSphere Developer Tools Scala Scala 2.11 Has Arrived! Typesafe announces Akka Streams, a part of the Reactive Streams Initiative Activator 1.1 Integrates App Inspection and a New UI Other Guava 17 Released jQuery 1.11.1 and 2.1.1 Released Git 1.9.2 Released IntelliJ IDEA 13.1.2 Update is Available Updated: Eclipse Foundation Announces Java 8 Support Java ME 8 Arrives News Mojarra site gets a facelift Events JAX 2014 May 12 - 16 EclipseCon France June 18 - 19 No Fluff Just Stuff Salt Lake City, UT • May 30 - 31 • Columbus, OH • Jun 6 - 8 • Gradle Summit • Jun 12 - 13 • ÜberConf (USA) • Jun 24 - 27 • ÜberConf (Germany) • Jul 7 - 10 • 33rd Degree - Krakow, Poland • June 9-11th • Scala Days Kosmos, Berlin • June 16th-18th •