JBoss Application Server 6.0 Milestone 5 has been released and is available for download.

http://www.jboss.org/jbossas/downloads.html

The release is also available in the JBoss repository.

JBoss AS 6.0.0.M5 is the fifth milestone release of the community driven AS 6 series.  This release offers an interim stable update as work continues toward the goals of the first Candidate Release milestone targeted for November,

A list of bugfixes and enhancements can be viewed below.  Notable component upgrades include:

• JBoss WS CXF 3.4.0.Beta2
• Hibernate 3.5.5-Final
• WELD 1.1.0.Beta1

Download it now and try it out.  Any questions?  Ask on the JBoss AS Community Forums.

Bug Fixes and Enhancements in JBoss Application Server 6.0.0.M5

Sub-task

• [ JBAS-8018 ]                 Complete Site and Documentation for AS6 JSF
• [ JBAS-8238 ]                 Fix JSR77SpecUnitTestCase
• [ JBAS-8243 ]                 org.jboss.test.profileservice.test.ConnectionFactoryUnitTestCase
• [ JBAS-8362 ]                 tomcat-webctx, tomcat-federation, osgi test configs do not start
• [ JBAS-8364 ]                 Split weld-int JBossEjbServices
• [ JBAS-8393 ]                 Switch to the new EJB resolvers SPI
• [ JBAS-8397 ]                 org.jboss.test.deployers.weld.test.WeldTranslatorExampleUnitTestCase

Feature Request

• [ JBAS-8230 ]                 Migrate to Google Guava from google-collections
• [ JBAS-8342 ]                 EJB descriptor implementation must include support for remote business interfaces

Bug

• [ JBAS-6795 ]                 NullPointerException thrown from getEntityManagerFactory() when persistence unit is packaged with WAR
• [ JBAS-7285 ]                 Lazy initialization fix for wrong use case.
• [ JBAS-8281 ]                 ProcessInjectionTarget not fired for Servlet, Filter, Servlet Listener, Tag Library Listener and JSF Managed Bean
• [ JBAS-7924 ]                 smoke-tests build SUCCESS despite FAILURE
• [ JBAS-8217 ]                 Simple war based ejb deployment does not work on JBoss 6.0M3
• [ JBAS-8226 ]                 All EJB 3.1 Session Beans are treated as no-interface views
• [ JBAS-8264 ]                 @FacesValidator annotated class not registered as Validator
• [ JBAS-8270 ]                 properties not allowed in jboss-logging log4j-appenders
• [ JBAS-8328 ]                 Deployment copied to farm dir fails to deploy
• [ JBAS-8333 ]                 cannot configure boot logger to show DEBUG information in boot.log, seems to be stuck at the INFO level
• [ JBAS-8345 ]                 Cannot @Inject an EJB into another EJB (works fine injecting into CDI beans.)
• [ JBAS-8363 ]                 Virtual host issue in JBossWeb
• [ JBAS-8367 ]                 BasePool.emptySubPool() shuts down non-idle pool
• [ JBAS-8392 ]                 org.jboss.as.javaee.SimpleJavaEEModuleInformer#getModulePath returns incorrect module name for toplevel non-ear deployments

Task

• [ JBAS-8252 ]                 Deploy the timerservice jar in exploded format
• [ JBAS-8327 ]                 remove nonexistent jboss schemas/dtds from metadata-deployer-jboss-beans.xml
• [ JBAS-8380 ]                 Deploy the timerservice-mk2 jar only when there's a EJB3.x deployment in the server
• [ JBAS-8386 ]                 Remove saaj api jar from distribution

Component Upgrade

• [ JBAS-8360 ]                 Upgrade JBossWS to 3.4.0.Beta2
• [ JBAS-8402 ]                 Upgrade MC libs -- Classloading, Deployers, Scanning
• [ JBAS-8347 ]                 Upgrade Hibernate components to 3.5.5-Final
• [ JBAS-8371 ]                 Upgrade WELD to 1.1.0.Beta1

Thirdparty Change

• [ JBAS-8307 ]                 Integrate new EJB3 AS6 Dependency Chain into the Build