News

2009

Sept/2009 - Hupa joins Apache James as sub-project

The Apache JAMES project is pleased to announce the inclusion of a new sub-project called Hupa. Hupa is a GWT based webmail which use IMAP to connect to the backend mailserver.

Aug/2009 - Apache James 2.3.2 Released

The Apache JAMES project is pleased to announce that Apache James 2.3.2 is now available. This is a minor bug fix release. See the Release Notes for more details. Upgrading is recommended for users of previous 2.x releases.

Jul/2009 - Apache MPT 0.1 released

The Apache JAMES project is pleased to announced that the first release of Apache MPT - a functional testing library particularly suitable for line protocols based on ASCII - is now available. These protocols are common in mail but the library may be useful more widely. See the release notes for more details.

Jun/2009 - Apache jSPF 0.9.7 released

The Apache JAMES Project is pleased to announce a new Apache jSPF release which included some critical bug fixes.

Jun/2009 - Apache JSieve 0.3 released

The Apache JAMES Project is pleased to announce that the third release of Apache JSieve - an implementation of the Sieve mail filtering language - is now available for download. This is the first modular release and includes a filtering mailet. See the release notes for more details.

May/2009 - Apache Crypto Mailets 1.0 released

The Apache JAMES Project is pleased to announce the first independent release of Apache Cryptographic Mailets (previous versions were released as part of the Apache James Server). This package contains mailets which encode, decode, sign and verify mail plus cryptology utilities.

Apr/2009 - Apache Mailet Base 1.0 released

The Apache JAMES Project is pleased to announce the first independent release of Apache Mailet Base (previous versions were released as part of the Apache James Server). The Basic Mailet Toolkit contains lightweight frameworks and utilities likely to be of interest to Mailet developers.

Mar/2009 - Mime4j 0.6 released

We are proud to announce the availability of Apache Mime4j-0.6. This release brings another round of API enhancements and performance optimizations. There has been a number of notable improvements in the DOM support. MIME stream parser is expected to be 50% faster when line counting is disabled. Please also note that as of this release Mime4j requires a Java 1.5 compatible runtime

Feb/2009 - MailetDocs Maven Plugin 0.1 released

The Apache JAMES Project is pleased to announce the first release of the MailetDocs plugin for Maven. The plugin catalogs mailet (for example). For more information, see the release notes.

Jan/2009 - Apache Mailet 2.4 released

The Apache JAMES Project is pleased to announce the first independent release of Apache Mailet (previous versions were released as part of the Apache James Server). The Mailet API defines a standard approach to enterprise mail processing.

2008

October/2008 - Mime4j 0.5 released

We are proud to announce the availability of APACHE Mime4j-0.5. This release addresses a number of important issues discovered since 0.4. In particular, it improves Mime4j ability to deal with malformed data streams including those intentionally crafted to cause excessive CPU and memory utilization that can lead to DoS condition

This release also fixes a serious bug that can prevent Mime4j from correctly processing binary content

Aug/2008 - Apache JSieve 0.2 released

The Apache JAMES Project is pleased to announce the first public release of Apache JSieve an implementation of RFC3028 - Sieve: A Mail Filtering Language for Java.

Aug/2008 - Mime4j 0.4 released

We are proud to announce the availability of APACHE Mime4j-0.4. This release brings a number of significant improvements in terms of supported capabilities, flexibility and performance:

  • Revised and improved public API with support for pull parsing
  • Support for parsing of 'headless' messages transmitted using non SMTP transports such as HTTP
  • Reduced external dependencies. Mime4j is no longer directly dependent on log4j and commons-io
  • Improved parsing performance (up to 10x for large messages)
  • More comprehensive header parsing including support for RFC1864, RFC2045, RFC2183, RFC2557 and RFC3066
  • Revised packaging and exception hierarchy. MimeException now extends IOException

Apr/2008 - jSPF-0.9.6 released

We are proud to announce the availability release of APACHE jSPF-0.9.6. This release fix two possible NullPointerExceptions and handle the "exp=" modifier correctly.

Mar/2008 - James publishes project ideas for Google Summer of Code '08

The James Team are delighted to announce that we're proposing two project ideas for Google Summer of Code (GSOC) 2008. The project Ideas are set out on the Apache GSOC wiki here.

In brief they are:
1) Develop a VERP Mailet to allow James to write VERP modified return addresses on outbound messages, and an inbound mailet/matcher to identify VERP bounces and invoke configurable "do something" code.
And
2) James' provided mailing list manager is fine for small closed groups, but lacks the functionality of a more robust MLM, the project is to add some all or more of the following features subscriber and message moderation, double opt-in and bounce handling.

2007

Sept/2007 - jSPF-0.9.5 released

We are proud to announce the availability of APACHE jSPF-0.9.5. This release brings initial support for asynchronous processing and is fully RFC4408 compliant.

May/2007 - Apache Mime4J 0.3 Final Released

After almost 2 years the Apache JAMES team is proud to announce the availability of Apache Mime4J 0.3. This is the first release under the ASF umbrella.

May/2007 - Mailet API sub-project lives

Following a decision taken by the James PMC a few months ago, the Apache Mailet API project is now independent of JAMES Server and has its own webpage and its own source repository.

Apr/2007 - JAMES Server 2.3.1 Final Released

James PMC is proud to announce the availability of the final release of JAMES Server 2.3.1. More informations on what has been fixed since the 2.3.0 release can be found in the changelog.

Apr/2007 - JAMES Server 2.3.1 RC1 released

James PMC is proud to announce the availability of the first release candidate of JAMES Server 2.3.1. This release is maintenance release. See the changelog for more detail.

Apr/2007 - Apache JAMES Project Guidelines published

The James PMC has approved - for the first time - a set of guidelines for the project. These guidelines are intended to reflect and summarize well-known practices in our community. They include "... definitions of how conflict is resolved by voting, who is able to vote, and the procedures to follow for proposing and making changes to the Apache JAMES products."

Feb/2007 - jSPF-0.9b4 released

James PMC is proud to announce the availability of the fourth beta of jspf 0.9. This version pass all tests in the last official release of the spf testsuite.

Feb/2007 - Feathercast features James

James PMC member and commiter Danny Angus was interviewed about James by David Reid for Feathercast episode 24. You can download the podcast from here.

Jan/2007 - Mailet API to become a sub-project

The James commiters have voted to promote the Mailet API to its own James sub-project.
This move will provide a clearer division between development of the API and development of James server, and we hope this will encourage more participation from external projects.

The effort will start small, by releasing the current version, and move on to look at the enhancements we've been discussing over on the mailet api list where we will extend a warm welcome to anyone who has something to contribute.

Eventually we hope to extend the scope of the sub-project to include things like a Reference Implementation independent of James Server and suitable for embedding, an SDK, and possibly a TCK.

2006

Oct/2006 - JAMES Server 2.3.0 Final Released

James PMC is proud to announce the availability of the long awaited final release of JAMES Server 2.3.0. More informations on what's new can be found in the changelog.

Sep/2006 - jSPF 0.9 b3 Released

James PMC is proud to announce the availability of the third beta of jspf 0.9. This version has start to use the official spf testsuite to fix all rfc issues.

Aug/2006 - JAMES Server 2.3.0 RC3 Released

James PMC is proud to announce the availability of the third, and hopefully last, release candidate of JAMES Server 2.3.0. More informations on what's new can be found in the changelog.

New development roadmaps are being discussed right now, so stay tuned for 2.3.0 final and for the following news. - Sep/2006

Aug/2006 - JAMES Products website revamped

We just finished a major update of james products to be able to publish each product specific site under this new website structure

Jul/2006 - JAMES Server 2.3.0 on the way

After a long time of development we have released the first release candidate of JAMES Server 2.3.0. After a period of user testing version 2.3.0 will be released.

Jul/2006 - New project JAMES jSPF

JAMES PMC is happy to announce that we are working on a Java implementation of the SPF specification. The first betas are already available for download.

2005

JAMES PMC react to the closure of Apache Avalon.

JAMES PMC would like to reassure all of our users that JAMES Server is alive and well. All of the James team have kept abreast of the Avalon developments culminating in the closure of the Avalon project and dispersal of its codebase. We are are keen to stress that this has little impact on our ability to support and develop Server in both the short and long terms.
Over the coming months we will be finalising and publishing a road map for JAMES Server which will address all of the specific concerns raised by Avalon's closure, but rest assured JAMES Server' future is safe, and we have enthusiasm and plans aplenty.
In the meantime we would like to extend our best wishes to all our friends from Avalon, here's luck with your future projects guys!
If you are at all concerned please subscribe to the server-user mailing list and raise your points there. - 05/Jan/2005

JAMES product sources have moved to "Subversion"

Subversion is a version control system like CVS, but it has advantages over CVS for Apache Software Foundation (ASF) projects.
In common with all other ASF projects we have reviewed our use of CVS and migrated our code to Subversion.
Have a look at this FAQ for further details. - 05/Jan/2005