News & Events

The first official release of Virgo, 2.1.0.RELEASE, is available to download. Gemini Web, used by Virgo, is also officially released at 1.1.0.RELEASE and available to download.

The release is the contribution of SpringSource dm Server code relicensed under the Eclipse Public License and repackaged in the org.eclipse namespace. Apart from passing the stringent Eclipse legal review process, there are several improvements over dm Server 2.0.x: startup is much faster, several dependencies have been upgraded, a few bugs were fixed, and several enhancements were made.

The response from the community has been particularly encouraging with thousands of downloads of the milestones and numerous forum posts and mailing list discussions. We are particularly grateful to the code contributors, listed in the release notes.

The main objective of contributing Virgo was to grow the community and thereby make the technology more easily consumed by application developers. The project seems to be meeting the community objective and we are now preparing to donate the Virgo tooling to Eclipse which will enable the community to help us make the developer experience smoother, especially for newcomers to modularity and OSGi.

The future looks promising, starting with a Virgo face-to-face meeting at the end of this month. It's not too late to express your interest (on virgo-dev) if you would like to attend.