Kito, Ian, and Daniel discuss JDK 8, LiferayFaces, the new Jenkins repository, and new releases of ICEfaces, MyFaces, Weld, Ceylon, ModeShape, Arquillian, Akka, NetBeans, and several Spring products. Comment from Cagatay Civici (PrimeFaces lead) about our last newscast: “We are not moving away from jQuery in favor of custom javascript, we just write our own jQuery powered widgets designed with JSF in mind. For PF 3 we are actually avoiding 3rd party jQuery plugins like jQuery ui dialog, autocomplete, tabs and similar because PF 2 experience helped me to realize that although using 3rd party work is good to quickly come up with components, they extremely limit you in long term.” New Releases ICEfaces EE 3.0.0.GA now available ICEmobile-Faces EE 1.0.0.GA now available ICEfaces 3.0.1 now available Myfaces Tomahawk 1.1.12 Released Myfaces Orchestra Core 1.5 Released MyFaces Core 2.1.7 Released MyFaces Core 2.0.13 Released MyFaces Core 1.2.12 Released MyFaces Core 1.1.10 Released MyFaces Extensions CDI 1.0.5 Released Weld 1.1.7.Final Released Weld 2.0.0.Alpha2 released Hibernate Validator 4.3.0.Beta1 Hibernate ORM 4.1.2 Release Hibernate Search 4.1.0.Final - conditional indexing and more Second official release of Ceylon AeroGear 1.0.0.M2 Released! More Mobile Goodness ModeShape 2.8.1.Final is available ModeShape 3.0.0.Alpha3 is available Arquillian 1.0.0 Final Ready for GlassFish and WebLogic Arquillian Extension Jacoco 1.0.0.Alpha3 Released Infinispan 5.1.4.FINAL is out now! GridGain 4.0 Now Available Hazelcast 2.0 Released with Off-Heap Storage and Distributed Backups Spring Mobile 1.0.0.RC2 Available Spring Data REST 1.0.0.M1 Released Spring Integration 2.1.1 Released SpringSource Releases Version 1.0 Of Cloud Foundry Eclipse Plugin Akka 2.0.1 Released! Enterprise Tool News NetBeans IDE 7.1.2 Available for Download Jenkins CI and JFrog Announce Joint Artifact Repository Solution in the Cloud News PortletFaces becomes LiferayFaces MyFaces ExtScripting site officially launched - http://myfaces.apache.org/extensions/scripting/ JDK 8 Milestone and Release Dates JSF and Java EE Events Progressive Java Tutorials • May 3rd-4th - London, UK CONFESS • May 7th-9th - Leogang, Austria RedHat Summit / JBoss - • June 26th-29th, Boston, MA JAX 2012 - July 9th-12th • -- San Francisco, CA featuring JSF Summit track NFJS Symposiums JavaZone • - Sep 12th-13th - Oslo, Norway Strange Loop • - September 24th-25th - St Louis, MO (call for papers is open until May 5th) JavaOne • - Sep 30th-Oct 4th - San Francisco, CA