The 2nd Candidate Release (CR2) for the JBoss Application Server 4.0.4 went out on the 31st of March and it is available for download.

This release comes with 120+ bug fixes and incorporates new features, mostly through updates to the various independent JBoss projects integrated under the JBossAS umbrella.

For those interested in the latest EJB3 developments, the installer version contains the EJB3 RC5+ preview that matches the current EJB3 draft standard.

We have the latest version (CR6) of the all-new JBoss Web Services stack (JBossWS) that replaces the axis-based jboss-ws4ee stack. This is developed using jdk5 and retrofitted for jdk1.4 JVMs using JBossRetro.

We have Tomcat updated to version 5.5.16 and JBossCache updated to 1.2.4.SP2 with support for AOP-based http field-level session replication. There are also updates to Hibernate, JBossRemoting, JBossSerialization and more.

Based on Your input a stabilization and bug fixing period (couple of weeks) will follow before the final GA release. As usual, you can track the progress in our JIRA roadmap.

More information for the release can be found in the related forum announcement and the linked release notes.

Cheers
dimitris@jboss