Re: [ANNOUNCE] Velocity Engine 2.0 RC7 test build available

Am 2017-04-09 um 01:19 schrieb Claude Brisson:
> A new test build of Velocity Engine 2.0 is available (RC7).
>
> No determination as to the quality ('alpha,' 'beta,' or 'GA') of
> Velocity Engine 2.0 has been made, and at this time it is simply a "test
> build". We welcome any comments you may have, and will take all feedback
> into account if a quality vote is called for this build.
>
> Release notes:
>
> *
> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/velocity/velocity-engine/2.0/release-notes.html
>
>
> Distribution:
>
>  * https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/velocity/velocity-engine/2.0/
>
> Maven 2 staging repository:
>
>  *
> https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachevelocity-1018/
>
> A vote regarding the quality of this test build will be initiated within
> the next couple of days.
>
> Release Candidates changelog:
>
>   RC1: initial candidate
>   RC2: bugfixes
>   RC3: review SLF4J Logger names (instead of a single logger named
> "Velocity", have a hierarchy of loggers with a base of
> 'org.apache.velocity')
>   RC4: minor fixes
>   RC5:
>    * the default encoding is now UTF-8 (and not the platform default)
>    * commons-collections is not any more a compilation dependency
>    * commons-lang3 dependency is not any more shaded
>    * the configuration API doesn't reference ExtProperties
>    * the events API has been optimized and reviewed: all events do
> receive the current Context
>    * there has been a few optimizations in ASTStringLiteral rendering
>   RC6: mostly code cleaning and build process optimization ; assembly
> module has been dropped
>   RC7: still a lot of core cleanups and reviews, plus:
>    * new strategy for reference boolean evaluation
>    * allow expressions inside [ ] : $foo[$bar + 1]

Checked the entire diff at GitHub: looks good to me, nothing to complain.

Great work, Claude!

Michael