<br> <a href="http://blog.athico.com/2007/10/drools-402-released.html">http://blog.athico.com/2007/10/drools-402-released.html</a><br><br>We just <a href="http://labs.jboss.com/drools/downloads.html">released Drools v4.0.2
</a>. This is a minor release with a few improvements on existing features and several bug fixes. We also included a lot of <a href="http://downloads.jboss.com/drools/docs/4.0.2.15666.GA/html/index.html">new documentation
</a>, specially in the <a href="http://downloads.jboss.com/drools/docs/4.0.2.15666.GA/html/ch10.html">examples section</a>.<br><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Important:</span> there is one backward compatibility break when using Rule Flow. If you use Rule Flow, please check the
</span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://downloads.jboss.com/drools/docs/4.0.2.15666.GA/html/ch01s02.html#d0e362"> section 1.2.5 of the manual</a><span style="font-style: italic;"> for details.</span><br><br>We
would like to really thanks all the contributors that helped on getting
this release out. From those contributing patches and docs, to those
testing and reporting bugs and providing feedback. The list is a bit
long to post all names here and I may incur in a mistake forgetting
someone, so <span style="font-weight: bold;">our open public thank you to you all</span>!<br><br>This
is now the stable version of Drools and from now on, we expect to only
release eventual bug fixes in this branch. We are starting now the
development of the new major release of Drools and new features shall
all be added to it.<br><br>For those curious about what is coming, please check previous posts on this blog. <a href="http://blog.athico.com/2007/10/synasc-2007-slides.html">Mark's slides presented at Synasc</a> also talk about several things we want to do for the coming versions.
<br><br>Follows the release notes.<br><br>Happy Drooling<br><span style="font-style: italic;">Drools Team</span><br clear="all"><br>-- <br> Edson Tirelli<br> Software Engineer - JBoss Rules Core Developer<br> Office: +55 11 3529-6000
<br> Mobile: +55 11 9287-5646<br> JBoss, a division of Red Hat @ <a href="http://www.jboss.com">www.jboss.com</a>