[ANNOUNCE] Velocity Tools 3.1 released

The Apache Velocity team is pleased to announce the release of Velocity 
Tools 3.1.

Velocity Tools is a library of template tools and helpers to ease the 
use of the Apache Velocity template engine in standalone applications 
and webapps.

Main changes in this release:

* Added an optional 'factory' attribute to tools with the classname of a 
factory for creating new tools instances.

* Added a new BreadcrumbTool meant to help displaying UI breadcrumb trails.

* Fixed a potential XSS vulterability in VelocityViewServlet error handling.

For a full list of changes, consult the Velocity Tools 3.1 Changes section:

   https://velocity.apache.org/tools/3.1/changes.html

as well as the JIRA changelog:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310130&version=12345408

For notes on upgrading, see Velocity Tools 3.1 Upgrading section:

   http://velocity.apache.org/tools/3.1/upgrading.html

Regards,

   the Apache Velocity team.