Voting: is currently open for the 2013 JBoss Community Recognition Awards. 

Please vote for your favorite contributor and/or contribution.  Just reading through the notations is very valuable even if you do not recognize any of the names from forum postings, blogs, wikis, jiras or in the codebase.  A special thank you to all of our community contributors that make the open source ecosystem so vibrant and exciting!

Demo: In case you missed it, the JBoss team pulled off another live demonstration leveraging Vert.x, TorqueBox, Immuntant, Aerogear and OpenShift - a polyglot, real-time push notification-based application.  The demo starts around minute 25 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjT-pMCkkTY

My Hitchhiker's Guide to the JBoss Galaxy 2013 slides are at

http://jbossgalaxy-html5.rhcloud.com/ - leverages Reveal.js and if you have a Leap Motion - you can "swipe" your way through the slide deck.

Release Early, Release Often

Significant Final Releases:

* Infinispan 5.3.0.Final

JSR-107, MongoDB/LevelDB/JPA cache stores, lower memory footprint

http://infinispan.blogspot.com/2013/06/infinispan-530final-is-out.html

http://infinispan.blogspot.com/2013/07/lower-memory-overhead-in-infinispan.html

* RHQ 4.8

Cassandra, New Charts (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0CfQIjsy50)

http://pilhuhn.blogspot.com/2013/06/rhq-48-released.html

* Hibernate ORM 4.2.3.Final

OSGi and new quickstart examples

http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/HibernateORM423FinalReleased

* GateIn 3.6.0.Final

OAuth2, CDI, New Admin UI, new quickstarts

https://community.jboss.org/en/gatein/blog/2013/07/01/gatein-portal-360final

* Arquillian Core 1.1.0.Final

Created to defend the software galaxy from bugs

http://arquillian.org/blog/2013/07/01/arquillian-core-1-1-0-Final/

* Forge 1.3.2.Final

Because Getting Started S^@%$

http://forge.jboss.org/news/2013/06/26/post-forge-1.html

* Byteman 2.1.3

New rulecheck maven plugin

http://bytemanblog.blogspot.com/2013/06/better-maven-integration-with-new.html

* Errai 2.3.2.Final and 2.4.0.Beta1

Bug fixes and some new goodies coming

http://errai-blog.blogspot.com/2013/06/a-boatload-of-releases_19.html

* JBossOSGi-2.0.0 Final

R5 compliant for WildFly 8 integration

http://jbossosgi.blogspot.com/2013/07/jbossosgi-200-final-released.html

Alpha/Beta Releases:

* Arquillian Warp 1.0.0.Alpha3

Jacoco, Meaningful Reports, JSF Managed Beans Injection

http://arquillian.org/blog/2013/06/20/arquillian-extension-warp-1-0-0-Alpha3/

* Arquillian TestRunner Spock 1.0.0.Beta1

Annotation driven activation, Groovy 1.8 and 2.0

http://arquillian.org/blog/2013/06/20/arquillian-testrunner-spock-1-0-0-Beta1/

* JBoss Tools & Developer Studio Beta 2 (Eclipse Kepler)

LiveReload on your device

https://community.jboss.org/en/tools/blog/2013/07/01/to-all-you-keplers-out-here--beta2-is-here

* Teiid 8.5 Alpha 1

http://teiid.blogspot.com/2013/07/teiid-85-alpha1-available.html

In addition to all of this release activity there were numerous blog postings over the last couple of weeks, I encourage you to try out our aggregated feed at

http://planet.jboss.org/feed/all - I recently started monitoring via FlipBoard as seen in the following screenshot - give it a try and you are always welcome to send me feedback via Twitter @burrsutter.