Re: Last call for comments on 2.3.17 + release date

Friday, May 6, 2011, 5:54:01 PM, Michael Cervenak Ahern wrote:

> Can you elaborate on this point:
>
>  * Fix licencing mess with DTD/XSD included in freemarker.jar: use
>    ASF variants
>
> So the ASF variant does not have a copy of the JSP .xsd file?  I
> work for one of those companies with an overgrown legal department...

I want to replace the DTD-s and XSD-s with ones that are covered with
ASL. I think I have seen them included with Tomcat or something. If I
remember correctly at least... because this point was from my TODO
list.

> Regards,
> -Mike
>
> On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Daniel Dekany <[email protected]> wrote:
> Unless something horrible happens, it will be released on 2011-05-16.
> (There will be "freemarker-gae" too, on the same date, and in the
> Maven Central Repo as well.)
>
> A preview jar will be out on 2011-05-09 or 10; the more people tests
> it the better. Many lines was/will be touched, so... just to be sure.
>
> The current change log is:
>
>  Changes on the FTL side:
>
>  * The sort and sort_by built-ins now support sorting boolean values.
>
>  Changes on the Java side:
>
>  * FreeMarker now can log its messages directly using SLF4J or Apache
>    Commons Logging. However, it will not use these logger libraries
>    automatically, until 2.4; see more here... But it's recommended to
>    switch to SLF4J now.
>
>  * New setting: "auto_flush", Configurable.setAutoFlush(boolean).
>    Sets whether the output Writer is automatically flushed at the end
>    of Template.process(Object, Writer) (and its overloads). The
>    default is true, which corresponds to the earlier behavior. Using
>    false is needed for example when a Web page is composed from
>    several boxes (like portlets, GUI panels, etc.) that aren't
>    inserted with #include (or with similar directives) into a master
>    FreeMarker template, rather they are all processed with a separate
>    Template.process(...) call. In a such scenario the automatic
>    flushes would commit the HTTP response after each box, hence
>    interfering with full-page buffering, and also possibly decreasing
>    performance with too frequent and too early response buffer
>    flushes.
>
>  * Added freemarker.cache.NullCacheStorage: Setting this as the cache
>    storage in Configuration disables caching.
>
>  * Log messages doesn't contain line-breaks (CR or LF) anymore, and
>    quote paths and other arbitrary text with Java string literal
>    syntax. This is most noticeable on template processing error
>    entries, which will now quote the exception message. Note that how
>    stack traces (the Throwable objects) are logged is still up to the
>    logging framework you are using.
>
> Things that will probably also go into 2.3.17:
>
>  * "classname"?new will have configurable filter so that you can
>    exclude classes/packages, even completely ban calling ?new.
>
>  * ?iso_date, ?iso_time. ?iso_datetime] for formatting dates/times
>    with ISO 8601 formats.
>
>  * ?long works for date/time values (gives millisecs since the epoch)
>
>  * New top-level special variables: "now", "today" (used like
>    Generated: ${.now}) This is dirty, but people often ask for it as
>    many environments (like source code templates in certain
>    IDE-s) forget to expose such data.
>
>  * Bugfix for ?seq_contians when used with BeansWrapper+CollectionModel
>
>  * Logging messages further secured by escaping "<" where template
>    names are logged (PCI requirement...)
>
>  * Fix licencing mess with DTD/XSD included in freemarker.jar: use
>    ASF variants
>
> --
> Best regards,
>  Daniel Dekany
>
>
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