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     <div class="subsection"><a name="Contents"></a>
       <h3>Contents</h3>
       <ul>
+	<li><a href="#1_6_0">Version 1.6.0 - 20th April 2009</a></li>
         <li><a href="#1_5_0">Version 1.5.0 - 6th May 2008</a></li>
         <li><a href="#1_4_0">Version 1.4.0 - 3rd March 2008</a></li>
         <li><a href="#1_3_0">Version 1.3.0 - 29th February 2008</a></li>
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         <li><a href="#M0_1">Milestone version 0.1 - 25th November 2005</a></li>
       </ul>
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+<!--###############################1.6.0########################################-->
+<div class="subsection">
+      <a name="20_April_2009_-_Apache_Axis2_C_Version_1_6_0_Released"></a>
+      <h3>20th April 2009 - Apache Axis2/C Version 1.6.0 Released</h3>
+      <p><a href="http://ws.apache.org/axis2/c/download.cgi" class="externalLink" title="External Link">Download 1.6.0</a></p>
+
+    </div><div class="subsection">
+      <a name="Key_Features"></a>
+      <h3>Key Features</h3>
+      <ol>
+        <li>Support for one-way messaging (In-Only) and request response messaging (In-Out)</li>
+        <li>Client APIs: Easy to use service client API and more advanced operation client API</li>
+        <li>Transports supported: HTTP
+          <ul>
+
+            <li>Inbuilt HTTP server called simple axis server</li>
+            <li>Apache2 httpd module called mod_axis2 for server side</li>
+            <li>IIS module for server side. Supports IIS 5.1, 6 and 7</li>
+            <li>Client transport with ability to enable SSL support</li>
+            <li>Basic HTTP Authentication</li>
+            <li>AMQP Transport based on Apache Qpid (Experimental)</li><li>
+
+            </li><li>libcurl based client transport</li>
+            <li>CGI interface</li>
+          </ul>
+        </li>
+        <li>Module architecture, mechanism to extend the SOAP processing model</li>
+        <li>WS-Addressing support, both the submission (2004/08) and final (2005/08) versions, implemented as a module</li>
+        <li>MTOM/XOP support</li>
+
+        <li>XPath support for Axiom XML Object model</li>
+        <li>AXIOM, an XML object model optimized for SOAP 1.1/1.2 messages; This has complete XML infoset support </li>
+        <li>XML parser abstraction
+          <ul>
+            <li>Libxml2 wrapper</li>
+            <li>Guththila pull parser support</li>
+          </ul>
+
+        </li>
+        <li>Both directory based and archive based deployment models for deploying services and modules </li>
+        <li>Description hierarchy providing access to static data of Axis2/C runtime (configuration, service groups, services, operations and messages) </li>
+        <li>Context hierarchy providing access to dynamic Axis2/C runtime information(corresponding contexts to map to each level of description hierarchy) </li>
+        <li>Message receiver abstraction
+          <ul>
+            <li>Inbuilt raw XML message receiver</li>
+
+          </ul>
+        </li>
+        <li>Code generation tool for stub and skeleton generation for a given WSDL (based on Java tool)        <ul>
+            <li>Axis Data Binding (ADB) support </li>
+          </ul>
+        </li>
+        <li>Transport proxy support</li>
+
+        <li>REST support (more POX like) using both HTTP POST and GET </li>
+        <li>Comprehensive documentation
+          <ul>
+            <li>Axis2/C Manual </li>
+          </ul>
+        </li>
+        <li>WS-Policy implementation called Neethi/C, with WS-SecurityPolicy extension</li>
+        <li>TCP Transport, for both client and server side </li>
+
+    </ol></div><div class="subsection">
+      <a name="Major_Changes_Since_Last_Release"></a>
+      <h3>Changes Since Last Release</h3>
+      <ol> 
+        <li>XPath support for Axiom XML object model</li>
+        <li>CGI support</li>
+        <li>Improvements to MTOM to send, receive very large attachments</li>
+
+        <li>Improvements to AMQP transport</li>
+        <li>Improvements to WSDL2C codegen tool</li>
+        <li>Many bug fixes.</li>
+        <li>Memory leak fixes</li>
+      </ol>
+    </div>
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 <div class="subsection"><a name="1_5_0"></a><h3>Apache Axis2/C Version 1.5.0 Released</h3><p><a href="http://ws.apache.org/axis2/c/download.cgi" class="externalLink" title="External Link">Download 1.5.0</a></p></div><div class="subsection"><a name="Key_Features"></a><h3>Key Features</h3>
       <ol>