The Apache Pluto Community is proud to announce the release of Apache Pluto 1.0.1-rc-1: the first binary release of the reference implementation of the Java Portlet Specification. Pluto 1.0.1-rc-1 is considered a release candidate. The promotion of this release candidate to general availability is expected within the few weeks, pending feedback from the community. The Java Portlet Specification defines a Portlet API very similar to the Servlet API. The API provides a means for aggregating disperate content sources. The specification addresses security and personalization considerations and defines a standard with which these sources, or portlets can be deployed. Pluto is an embedable portlet container which will typically be bundled within a fully functional Portal. The Pluto community has developed a simple portal driver implementation which allows for the testing and development of portlets with the container. The Pluto testsuite is an implementation agnostic portlet application which tests several basic operations of the container in which it is deployed. The distribution is organized into four releases: 1) A binary distribution bundled with Tomcat. This distribution is the easiest to install. 2) A source distribution. 3) A binary distribution containing the container library. 4) A binary tools distribution with the portal driver and testsuite. Thanks for using Pluto. The Apache Pluto Project http://portals.apache.org/pluto