Author: lukaszlenart Date: Fri Aug 7 12:48:49 2015 New Revision: 961060 Log: Updates production
Modified: websites/production/struts/content/announce.html websites/production/struts/content/index.html Modified: websites/production/struts/content/announce.html ============================================================================== --- websites/production/struts/content/announce.html (original) +++ websites/production/struts/content/announce.html Fri Aug 7 12:48:49 2015 @@ -124,6 +124,44 @@ Skip to: <a href="announce-2014.html">Announcements - 2014</a> </p> +<h4 id="a20150731">31 July 2015 - Struts 2.5-BETA1 (BETA)</h4> + +<p>The Apache Struts group is pleased to announce that Struts 2.5-BETA1 is available as a âBETAâ +release.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>This release contains several breaking changes and improvements just to mention few of them:</p> + +<ul> + <li>XWork source was merged into Struts Core source, it means that there be no more xwork artifact nor dedicated jar</li> + <li>OGNL was upgraded to version 3.0.11 and it breaks access to properties as it follows Java Bean Specification, see WW-4207 and WW-3909</li> + <li>Spring dependency for tests and spring plugin was upgraded to version 4.1.6, see WW-4510.</li> + <li>Struts2 internal logging api was marked as deprecated and was replaced with new Log4j2 api as logging layer, see WW-4504.</li> + <li>Struts2 is now build with JDK7, see WW-4503.</li> + <li>New plugin to support bean validation is now part of the distribution, see WW-4505.</li> + <li>Deprecated plugins are now removed from the distribution and are not longer supported anymore: + <ul> + <li>Dojo Plugin</li> + <li>Codebehind Plugin</li> + <li>JSF Plugin</li> + <li>Struts1 Plugin</li> + </ul> + </li> +</ul> + +<p>and many other improvements, please check the version notes</p> + +<p><strong>All developers are strongly advised to perform this action.</strong></p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + <h4 id="a20150507">7 May 2015 - Struts 2.3.24 General Availability</h4> <p>The Apache Struts group is pleased to announce that Struts 2.3.24 is available as a âGeneral Availabilityâ @@ -148,7 +186,7 @@ to maintaining applications over time.</ <li>fixed parameters encoding in <code>ServletRedirectAction</code> before checking for valid URI</li> <li><code>css_xhtml</code> hidden input adding table row markup</li> <li>FreeMarker was upgraded to the latest available version - 2.3.22</li> - <li>support for Log4j2 was added </li> + <li>support for Log4j2 was added</li> </ul> <p>and many other improvements, please check the version notes</p> Modified: websites/production/struts/content/index.html ============================================================================== --- websites/production/struts/content/index.html (original) +++ websites/production/struts/content/index.html Fri Aug 7 12:48:49 2015 @@ -153,11 +153,11 @@ </p> </div> <div class="column col-md-4"> - <h2>Apache Struts 1</h2> - <p><strong>End-Of-Life (EOL)</strong></p> - <p>The Struts 1.x web framework has reached its end of life and is no longer officially supported. - <a href="struts1eol-announcement.html">Read the announcement</a> or the official - <a href="struts1eol-press.html">Press release</a> + <h2>Apache Struts 2.5 BETA1</h2> + <p> + It's a first release of incoming Struts 2.5. + Read more in <a href="announce.html#a20150731">Announcement</a> or in + <a href="/docs/version-notes-25.html">Version notes</a> </p> </div> </div>