[release-notes] Adding Scala ecosystem to Development

[pbokoc]

commit 82bb5751db30d1e72d53250fbd9000f1d1346052
Author: Petr Bokoc <pbokoc at redhat.com>
Date:   Tue Oct 14 13:46:15 2014 +0200

    Adding Scala ecosystem to Development

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       </itemizedlist>
     </section>
   </section>
+  
+  <section id="sect-improved-scala">
+    <title>Improved Scala Ecosystem</title>
+    <para>
+      Fedora now features significantly improved support for the Scala ecosystem with the inclusion of <package>sbt</package> version 0.13.1 and several other key Scala infrastructure packages. These packages include: 
+    </para>
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <package>akka</package>, a toolkit for developing actor-based systems
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <package>json4s</package>, a unified interface to JSON parsers and generators 
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <package>sbinary</package>, a typed Scala interface for reading and writing binary formats 
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <package>scala-stm</package>, a software transactional memory implementation for Scala 
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <package>scalacheck</package>, a property-based testing framework for Scala 
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <package>scalaz</package>, a set of extensions to the Scala standard library to facilitate functional programming 
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+    <para>
+      With these packages available, Fedora has become an excellent environment for developing and distributing Scala projects. 
+    </para>
+  </section>
 
 </section>