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Yahoo! has released YUI version 2.5.2. This is a bug-fix release that adds support for the upcoming Firefox 3 and Opera 9.5 browser updates. There are fixes for better Adobe AIR support as well. Be sure to check out the release notes and then grab it from the YUI page.

It looks like Adobe is finally going to start treating us Linux users like first class citizens with the next release of Flash, version 10. Not only will the next version be released simultaneously on the Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms (pre-release available now), it will also contain some kick ass new features such as 3D Effects, new text layout effects, and better support for video playback.

Another big announcement from Adobe was their Open Screen project. While they are not moving to a true open source license, they are publishing the specification for SWF and removing the licensing fees for the Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR.

This is good news for me. I’ve had my eye on Adobe AIR for a bit now and have been itching to try it out. With Linux support and a (more) open platform, they have addressed many of the initial concerns I had with the framework. Now I can make shiny widgets like everyone else

The Spring community has been busy over the last month coming out with a slew of new releases. Spring Web Flow 2 has been released with better support for JavaServer Faces and JavaScript. For those of you whom haven’t heard of Web Flow, it is a continuations framework that allows you to write flows for your web  application. For example, think of the page flow of a user performing a search on your site and then interacting with the results. After running the search, the user may follow a result link or they may click the back button on their browser to refine their search. Web Flow helps you define the valid paths a user can take through the pages and helps manage state between these pages. Ajaxian has a writeup on the new JavaScript support and InfoQ has an interview with Keith Donald and Jeremy Grelle regarding the release.

In other Spring related news, the SpringSource Application Platform has been released. This is an OSGi-based application server that promises to allow you to update your application in real-time on the server. For more information on this, check out the discussion on TheServerSide.com as well as this interview with Spring creator Rod Johnson on dZone.

NetBeans version 6.1 has been released! Features include performance improvements, Ruby/JRuby support, better JavaScript editing support, and MySQL support in the Database Explorer.

Here are links to the release notes and a feature list. Roman Strobl has some more regarding the performance improvements. The Reg Developer weighs in with their impression of the release as well.

Ext has released version 2.1 of their JavaScript framework. Changes include performance improvements, a new slider control, and a new status bar component. Another major change is the move from an LGPL license to a GPLv3 license. The licensing change has quite a few people up in arms, but personally, I think it is a good move. I like the GPL and its viral nature. If you look at it from the Ext developers point of view, it guarantees that the same freedoms they give to users in their free version are in turn passed along to the users of your software. If you don’t like it, buy a license

Version 1.5.5 of Groovy has been released. This is a bug fix release with no major new functionality, however, improvements made to Groovyc (the groovy compiler) for 1.6 have been backported to the 1.5.x branch resulting in a compiler that is now three to five times faster. Check out the release notes for more information.

Spket IDE version 1.6.11 has been released. Looks like a bug-fix-mostly release with the addition of a new Theme Builder for Ext. Rey Bango, of Ext, has more information about this new feature on the Ext Blog. This should make integration of Ext-based widgets into your website much easier now that you can skin it easily to match your design.

via Ajaxian.

Adobe has released an alpha version of their AIR runtime for Linux. This is great news for those of us waiting for true cross-platform availability before giving it a whirl. Hopefully the alpha will go well and we’ll have a full-featured, supported version soon.

via ReadWriteWeb.

Apache Commons Lang version 2.4 has been released. Lots of new methods were introduced, including 17 new methods for the StringUtils class, and some new formatting classes. Check out the release notes for more information.

The YUI team released version 2.5.1today. This is mostly a bug-fix release, but does contain improved support for Adobe AIR as well as a new YUI Dependency Configurator for getting only the specific YUI  components you need for your application.