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# Apache James Server 3.0-beta3 released

## August 06, 2011

The Apache James project is happy to announce the release of version 3.0-beta3 of its modular mail server.

We thank all Users for their feedback and tests and we encourage anyone to download and discover this Milestone 3 release.

If you’re interested in contributing to the James project, please subscribe to the James mailing lists

What’s new in 3.0-beta3 for end users:

- Numerous IMAP bug fixes (better client support, memory improvement, NIO and IO support…)
- Support for IMAP IDLE (RFC 2177, server transmit updates to the client in real time)
- Support for IMAP User Flags
- Support for IMAP WITHIN Extensions (RFC 5032)
- Mailbox Tooling to copy from a persistence implementation to another implementation
- Telnet Management has been removed in favor of JMX with client shell
- More metrics counters available via JMX
- Better debug logging on protocols
- JPA validated against more databases (among others Oracle)
- Multiple address and port configurations per protocol
- POP3 is now operational (was buggy in 3.0-M2)
- Upgrade tool from James 2.3 is available
- Better logging on protocols with adjustable level
- Full mailet package must be specified
- Composite Matchers
- Better debug logging on protocols
- Mailing list functionality has been removed
- More documentation on web site for configuration,…
- Java 1.6 mandatory
- … and much more, see details on https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?in&version=12316850&styleName=Html&projectId=10411

What’s new in 3.0-beta3 for developers:

- Less maven modules
- Maven 3.0.2 required to build
- Upgrade to latest frameworks versions (netty, activemq, jackrabbit…)
- Code reports generation via ‘mvn site -P site-reports’ maven profile
- Corrections further to findbugs,… reports
- Code formatting
- … and much more, see details on https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?in&version=12316850&styleName=Html&projectId=10411

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