The last incremental update to the stable branch fixes a few bugs and backports the OSGi support from the development branch. Check out the changelog or download it now.

UPDATE: The campaign has finished and the registration is closed. Congratulations to all who won and everyone who didn’t can still grab the discounted personal license.

This week we ran a campaign at DZone giving away 150 JavaRebel personal licenses for free. The campaign was so successful that we decided to extend it to everyone and give 50 licenses extra to those who register here first. Please provide you real name as we find it hard to apply the EULA to “Mr Chocolate Bear”.

As another part of our summer promotional campaign we will discount the personal licenses for JavaRebel to $49 until the end of summer, so if you don’t get the free license you can still grab one cheaply. This offer extends only to single seat licenses, not organizational ones.

Note also that we plan to change the JavaRebel licensing policy in the near future. The license will become a yearly subscription and will be priced differently. The details will be announced two weeks before the change, but we advice everyone who wants to take advantage of the current prices and perpetual licensing policy to make your purchase soon.

JavaRebel offers permanent licenses to all JavaBlackBelt’s brown belts. This is a personal 1 seat commercial license that you can use to speed up your Java development. If you don’t have a brown belt yet, start taking the exams. This is the fifth and currently strongest belt offered so it won’t come easily.

To apply for a free license just send a link to your brown belt profile from the email used at JavaBlackBelt to support[at]zeroturnaround dot com. We’ll get back to you with your license.

JavaBlackBelt is a community for Java & open source skills assessment. It is dedicated to technical quizzes about Java related technologies. Read the full announcement from their news archive.