Netbeans IDE 6.1 from tomorrow

Netbeans IDE 6.1 should be available for download at their site on April 23rd, 2008 as per their roadmap.

According to the site, NetBeans IDE 6.1 release provides several new features and enhancements, such as rich JavaScript editing features, support for using the Spring web framework, tighter MySQL integration, and an improved way of sharing libraries among dependent projects. The acclaimed support for Ruby/JRuby has been enhanced with new editor quick fixes, a Ruby platform manager, fast debug support for JRuby, and many other new features and fixes. It also promises performance enhancement which includes 40% faster start up time!

Since, the Netbeans community has given a green signal to the release candidates, let’s hope Netbeans 6.1 is out on April 23rd, 2008.