[ANNOUNCE] VelocityTools 1.3 Release Candidate 1

[Nathan Bubna <nb...@apache.org>]

The Apache Velocity project is pleased to announce the first release
candidate for VelocityTools 1.3.  You may download this release from:

http://velocity.apache.org/download.cgi

Significant changes since VelocityTools 1.2 are:

- New tools:  ContextTool for accessing context data, ResourceTool and
ViewResourceTool for resource bundle access and easy i18n
- ViewTool and Configurable interfaces are no longer necessary,
instead you need only add init(Object) or configure(Map) methods
(respectively) to your tools.  This has allowed many settings on
GenericTools to become configurable via toolbox.xml (like DateTool's
default format).
- Numerous syntax simplifications for using many of the tools in your templates
- New showcase example to demonstrate most of the tools and their functions
- Request-scoped tool availability can be restricted according to the
request path by adding a <request-path> element to the tool config.
- New functionality in EscapeTool, LinkTool, CookieTool, ValueParser, and more

We've also fixed all known bugs, overhauled our build process, updated
all dependencies, added a test framework, and much more.

Please try it out and let us know of any bugs, so we can release a
final 1.3 version as soon as possible!

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Re: [ANNOUNCE] VelocityTools 1.3 Release Candidate 1

["Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <hp...@intermeta.de>]

"Nathan Bubna" <nb...@apache.org> writes:

Thanks for doing this and also a big thanks for adding it to the
news.xml file of the site :-)
	
	Best regards
		Henning




>The Apache Velocity project is pleased to announce the first release
>candidate for VelocityTools 1.3.  You may download this release from:

>http://velocity.apache.org/download.cgi

>Significant changes since VelocityTools 1.2 are:

>- New tools:  ContextTool for accessing context data, ResourceTool and
>ViewResourceTool for resource bundle access and easy i18n
>- ViewTool and Configurable interfaces are no longer necessary,
>instead you need only add init(Object) or configure(Map) methods
>(respectively) to your tools.  This has allowed many settings on
>GenericTools to become configurable via toolbox.xml (like DateTool's
>default format).
>- Numerous syntax simplifications for using many of the tools in your templates
>- New showcase example to demonstrate most of the tools and their functions
>- Request-scoped tool availability can be restricted according to the
>request path by adding a <request-path> element to the tool config.
>- New functionality in EscapeTool, LinkTool, CookieTool, ValueParser, and more

>We've also fixed all known bugs, overhauled our build process, updated
>all dependencies, added a test framework, and much more.

>Please try it out and let us know of any bugs, so we can release a
>final 1.3 version as soon as possible!

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