Re: Last call for comments on 2.3.17 + release date

Ok great that would be extremely helpful.

-Mike

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Daniel Dekany <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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