[aspectj-dev] AspectJ 1.6.9 released

[Andy Clement <andrew.clement@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

AspectJ 1.6.9 is now available.

You can grab it here:
http://eclipse.org/aspectj/downloads.php

The readme describes in more detail the changes in 1.6.9:
http://eclipse.org/aspectj/doc/released/README-169.html

It resolves 58 issues, the full bugzilla list of fixes is accessible
here: http://tinyurl.com/2ekjqoj

Major changes include:
- support for 'optional aspects'
- declare annotation supports compound signature patterns
- intertype declaration of member types (preliminary support)
- reduction in class file sizes

This version of AspectJ is already in the AJDT 2.1.0 releases for
eclipse 3.5 and 3.6

It will go into maven central shortly but for now is available at the
following maven repo as "1.6.9.RELEASE"

<repository>
   <id>maven.springframework.org</id>
   <name>SpringSource releases</name>
   <url>http://maven.springframework.org/release</url>
</repository>

thanks!
AspectJ team