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svn commit: r479106 - /jakarta/velocity/engine/trunk/xdocs/index.xml
Author: wglass
Date: Sat Nov 25 00:36:46 2006
New Revision: 479106
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&rev=479106
Log:
news about release beta2
Modified:
jakarta/velocity/engine/trunk/xdocs/index.xml
Modified: jakarta/velocity/engine/trunk/xdocs/index.xml
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/jakarta/velocity/engine/trunk/xdocs/index.xml?view=diff&rev=479106&r1=479105&r2=479106
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--- jakarta/velocity/engine/trunk/xdocs/index.xml (original)
+++ jakarta/velocity/engine/trunk/xdocs/index.xml Sat Nov 25 00:36:46 2006
@@ -57,44 +57,29 @@
<section name="Recent News" href="recentnews">
- <p><strong>Velocity Approved as Top Level Project</strong>
- <br/>(October 26, 2006)
+ <p><strong>Velocity 1.5 Beta 2 Released</strong>
+ <br/>(November 24, 2006)
</p>
<p>
- The Board of the Apache Software Foundation has passed a resolution to upgrade
- Jakarta Velocity into an Apache Top Level Project (TLP), to be renamed Apache Velocity.
- We are excited of the new prominence of the Velocity project.
- </p>
-
- <p>Please stay tuned for our new website at
- <a href="http://velocity.apache.org/">http://velocity.apache.org/</a>. In the meantime,
- note that our new mailing lists are
- <a href="mailto:user@velocity.apache.org">user@velocity.apache.org</a> (subscribe at
- <a href="mailto:user-subscribe@velocity.apache.org">user-subscribe@velocity.apache.org</a>)
- for general questions, and
- <a href="mailto:dev@velocity.apache.org">dev@velocity.apache.org</a>
- (subscribe at
- <a href="mailto:dev-subscribe@velocity.apache.org">dev-subscribe@velocity.apache.org</a>) for
- development-related activity.
- </p>
-
-
- <p><strong>Velocity 1.5 Beta 1 Released</strong>
- <br/>(September 13, 2006)
+ The Velocity developers are pleased to announce the second beta release of
+ Velocity 1.5.
+ You may download it
+ <a href="http://www.apache.org/dist/jakarta/velocity/beta/velocity-1.5-beta2/">here</a>.
</p>
<p>
- The Velocity developers are proud to announce the first beta version of
- Velocity 1.5.
- You may download it
- <a href="http://people.apache.org/dist/jakarta/velocity/v1.5beta1/">here</a>.
+ This beta version is one of the final steps before the long-awaited version 1.5. Since Beta 1
+ we have added a new InvalidReferenceEventHandler (to catch invalid references), the
+ SecureUberspector (to prevent introspection on "dangerous objects"), and a StringResourceLoader.
+ We've also fixed some critical bugs, including a subtle synchronization problem causing
+ page generation to fail under heavy loads.
</p>
<p>
- This is an early release intended as a preview of things to
- come. Many bugs have been fixed and new features have been added. A sampling:
+ Some of the other new features since Velocity 1.4 include:
</p>
+
<ul>
<li>floating point number arithmetic</li>
<li>new event handlers for altering #include/#parse behavior</li>
@@ -103,10 +88,32 @@
<p>A complete list of changes is available at our
<a href="http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VELOCITY?report=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project:roadmap-panel">issue tracker</a>.
- Please report any additional bugs there, especially those that need to be fixed before our
- final release. (use 1.5 beta 1 as the version).
+ You may also want to check out the draft <a href="http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta-velocity/Velocity15ReleaseNotes">release notes</a> on the Wiki.
+ Please report any additional bugs in the issue tracker, especially those that need to be fixed before our
+ final release. (use 1.5 beta 2 as the version).
+ </p>
+
+ <p><strong>Velocity Approved as Top Level Project</strong>
+ <br/>(October 26, 2006)
</p>
+ <p>
+ The Board of the Apache Software Foundation has passed a resolution to upgrade
+ Jakarta Velocity into an Apache Top Level Project (TLP), to be renamed Apache Velocity.
+ We are excited of the new prominence of the Velocity project.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>Please stay tuned for our new website at
+ <a href="http://velocity.apache.org/">http://velocity.apache.org/</a>. In the meantime,
+ note that our new mailing lists are
+ <a href="mailto:user@velocity.apache.org">user@velocity.apache.org</a> (subscribe at
+ <a href="mailto:user-subscribe@velocity.apache.org">user-subscribe@velocity.apache.org</a>)
+ for general questions, and
+ <a href="mailto:dev@velocity.apache.org">dev@velocity.apache.org</a>
+ (subscribe at
+ <a href="mailto:dev-subscribe@velocity.apache.org">dev-subscribe@velocity.apache.org</a>) for
+ development-related activity.
+ </p>
</section>
@@ -114,7 +121,7 @@
<section name="Where do I get releases?" href="WheredoIgetreleases?">
- <p> The current release version is version 1.4. </p>
+ <p> The current stable release version is version 1.4. </p>
<p> The release distribution is available as a combined source/binary distribution in
<code>tar.gz</code> and
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