NetBeans Weekly News - Issue #47

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Issue #47 - January 7, 2002
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This is the first NetBeans Newsletter in 2002. I would like to wish
you all a Happy New Year!

- At the end of last year the long expected NetBeans IDE version
3.3 was released. It already reached *21174* successful downloads
since the release (Source: January 5-th statistics)
    http://www.netbeans.org/stats.html

- The next release, NetBeans IDE 3.3.1, will be a bugfix release and
is expected at the end of January. All developers are now focused on
finding and fixing the bugs in NetBeans 3.3. The only scheduled
Q-build of NetBeans 3.3.1 has been successfuly released last
Friday. It seems that 3.3.1 is in good shape.  The first Release
Candidate should be available this Friday.
    http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=223303&listName=nbdev

- New Contribution: Terry Heatlie and others have created a new project,
the Support Interface Module, including general support for registering
and finding support offerings, as well as the beginnings of an automated
bug submission module.
    http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=218155&listName=contrib

- Yarda contributed a small but useful module and called it "View over a
filesystem". It allows mounting a huge tree of files as one big
filesystem
and then creating a bunch of filesystem views over that filesystem.
    http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=221179&listName=nbusers
    http://treefs.netbeans.org/

- NetBeans 3.3 represents a big step forwards in performance compared
to previous versions. Petr Nejedly reported the final improvements of NB
3.3 and started a new discussion about performance for NetBeans 3.4.
    http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=215109&listName=nbdev
    http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=223171&listName=nbdev

- Are you interested in The Metadata Repository? Now it seems it should
be open-sourced very very soon. Stay tuned!
    http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=223544&listName=nbdev

- Petr Jiricka started the discussion about whether the Swing GUI can be
specified declaratively and what are the exisiting solutions. Read more
in the following threads:
    http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=221595&listName=nbdev
    http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=223449&listName=nbdev

- Screenshots wanted! Jack Catchpoole asked for new screenshots of
NetBeans 3.3 running on different platforms. Do you have any? Please
send them to Jack.
    http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=216690&listName=nbdiscuss
    http://www.netbeans.org/articles/screenshots.html

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