[ANN] Apache Struts 2.3.24 GA

[Lukasz Lenart <lu...@apache.org>]

The Apache Struts group is pleased to announce that Struts 2.3.24 is
available as a “General Availability” release. The GA designation is
our highest quality grade.

Apache Struts 2 is an elegant, extensible framework for creating
enterprise-ready Java web applications. The framework is designed to
streamline the full development cycle, from building, to deploying, to
maintaining applications over time.

This release contains several fixes and improvements just to mention
few of them:
- security fix from 2.3.20.1 is included
- fixed flow in DefaultActionInvocation and when using the Convention Plugin
- defined new plugin to support Java 8, check Java 8 Support Plugin
- fixed problem with style attribute
- fixed problem with converting values from ActionContext
- converters are again applied to values coming from the context
- struts.ognl.allowStaticMethodAccess works again
- fixed memory leak in CDI plugin
- fixed problem with hidden field which silently drops label attribute
- fixed parameters encoding in ServletRedirectAction before checking
for valid URI
- css_xhtml hidden input adding table row markup
- FreeMarker was upgraded to the latest available version - 2.3.22
support for Log4j2 was added

and many other improvements, please check the version notes

The 2.3.x series of the Apache Struts framework has a minimum
requirement of the following specification versions: Servlet API 2.4,
JSP API 2.0, and Java 6.

All developers are strongly advised to perform this action.

Struts 2.3.24 is available in a full distribution, or as separate
library, source, example and documentation distributions, from the
releases page
* http://struts.apache.org/download.cgi#struts2324

The release is also available from the central Maven repository under
Group ID "org.apache.struts".

The 2.3.24 version of the Apache Struts framework has a minimum
requirement of the following specification versions:
* Java Servlet 2.4 and JavaServer Pages (JSP) 2.0
* Java 2 Standard Platform Edition (J2SE) 6

The release notes are available online at:
* http://struts.apache.org/docs/version-notes-2324.html

Should any issues arise with your use of any version of the Struts
framework, please post your comments to the user list, and, if
appropriate, file a tracking ticket.appropriate, file a tracking
ticket:
* https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WW


- The Apache Struts group.

Regards
-- 
Łukasz
+ 48 606 323 122 http://www.lenart.org.pl/

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