Velocity Engine 2.5 RC1 ${foo.bar}

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Hello,

Looking at the release notes:

  * Deprecation of some VTL syntax constructs: the formal reference
    notation |${...}| is now preferred for non-bare references (|$foo|
    is still fine, but |$foo.bar| should be rewritten as |${foo.bar}|).
    Deprecation warnings are off by default; the next minor release will
    turn them on by default, and the next major release will remove
    support for those deprecated forms.

I enabled runtime.deprecation.warn=true,  to see the warnings, there are 
hundreds :

2026-06-16 08:19:17,094 WARN  org.apache.velocity.rendering 
ASTReference:init - the informal notation '$utils.formatDate($utils.now, 
$text.get("date.toStringFormat"))' is deprecated in output; use the 
formal notation ${...} instead [line 634, column 21]

This is a very big change, adding ${} to 95% of our velocity statements.

Going forward > 2.5 is this change necessary or can it be ignored?

Cheers Greg

On 14/06/2026 18:06, Claude Brisson via dev wrote:
> The test build of Velocity Engine 2.5 RC1 is available.
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