Monday, 26 November 2007
The VelocityTools developers are pleased to announce the release of VelocityTools 1.4.
There have been many important bug fixes since the 1.3 release and a handful of new features. While important, the overall slate of changes is small compared to previous releases due to the rapid progress of the upcoming 2.0 version. This is expected to be the last release of the 1.x series, as 2.0 is both superior and backwards compatible.
New features in VelocityTools 1.4 include more configurability for NumberTool and DateTool, the new ComparisonDateTool, and new abilities for EscapeTool and LinkTool. For a full listing of new features and bug fixes please see the change log.
Downloads are available here.
Categories: velocity, tools
Monday, 13 August 2007
The Velocity developers are pleased to make the release of DVSL 1.0 available for download and testing.
This release fixes an incompatibility between DVSL 0.x and Velocity 1.5 or newser, along with some minor cleanup and refactoring. It is not a drop in replacement of DVSL 0.45 since the main package has changed from org.apache.tools.dvsl to org.apache.dvsl.
Files can be downloaded here.
Categories: velocity, dvsl
Monday, 2 July 2007
The Velocity developers are pleased to make the first alpha release of VelocityTools 2.0 available for download and testing.
This is a milestone release marking the completion of most major development in the Tools 2.x branch. Significant new features include very flexible, composable toolbox configuration (via either java, xml, and/or properties), lazy-loading/initialization of tools, the VelocityViewTag for embedding Velocity within JSP, an assortment of new and improved tools, and more.
This should be useable as a drop in replacement for Tools 1.3, with a few exceptions where things already deprecated in 1.x have been removed. This also is the first Tools release to require both Velocity 1.5+ and JDK 1.5+.
Early adopters may consider the new tool management and configuration facilities to be quite stable. At this point, documentation is limited to javadoc and the example apps, which have been updated to demonstrate the new tools, the VelocityViewTag, and configuration. We are also more than happy to answer questions on the mailing lists. More information on the changes between Tools 1.x and 2.x may be found here.
The Velocity developers are very interested in all feedback regarding Tools 2.0, especially regarding backwards compatibility with apps designed for Tools 1.3 or earlier. We aim to enable a smooth, incremental transition for developers and their applications.
Downloads of Tools 2.0-alpha1 are available here.
Categories: velocity, tools
Sunday, 6 May 2007
The Velocity developers are pleased to issue two new releases: Anakia 1.0 and Texen 1.0.
Anakia is an XML text transformation tool based on Apache Velocity and Apache Ant. It provides an alternative to using Ant 's style task and XSL to process XML files. A common use of Anakia is to process xdoc files and create site/project documentation. More information on Anakia can be found here:
http://velocity.apache.org/anakia/releases/anakia-1.0/
Texen is a general-purpose text generation utility, also based on Apache Velocity and Apache Ant. More information is here:
http://velocity.apache.org/texen/releases/texen-1.0/
Both Anakia and Texen were previously part of the core Velocity engine distribution but have been split off into their own packages to simplify maintenance and facilitate different release cycles. To avoid namespace conflict, org.apache.velocity.anakia has been moved to org.apache.anakia and org.apache.velocity.texen has been changed to org.apache.texen.
Categories: anakia, texen, velocity
Monday, 9 April 2007
The Velocity developers are very pleased to announce the first release of the Velocity Docbook framework. It is intended to help creating high-quality documentation in the DocBook format which can be used online or as PDF for print out.
The downloads and documentation are available from http://velocity.apache.org/docbook/.
Categories: docbook, velocity
Tuesday, 6 March 2007
The Velocity developers are very pleased to announce the final release of Velocity 1.5. Downloads are available here.
After a little more tweaking on Beta 2, the 1.5 final release is finally here! Since Beta 2 we have fixed a major problem with the new SecureUberspector as well as several bugs and broken links in our documentation.
Some of the other new features since Velocity 1.4 include:
A complete list of changes is available at our issue tracker. You should also check out the release notes on the Wiki. Please report any additional bugs in the issue tracker and we will try to address them before the next release.
Categories: engine, velocity
Thursday, 8 February 2007
The VelocityTools developers are pleased to announce the release of VelocityTools 1.3.
There have been many improvements made since the 1.2 release. A key focus in this version has been ease of use. We've simplifyied developing your own tools by eliminating the ViewTool and Configurable interfaces, and we've simplifyied the syntax for using many of our existing tools within Velocity templates to both save keystrokes and reduce visual clutter.
The distribution also comes with a new "showcase" example webapp that demonstrates many of the uses of the various tools as well as allowing you to interactively play with them. Just download the binary distribution, and deploy the "showcase.war" example to your servlet container to try it out.
Also included are the usual slate of bug fixes, dependency upgrades, entirely new tools, and new functions for existing tools. For a full listing of changes, see the change log.
Downloads are available here.
Categories: velocity, tools
Thursday, 25 January 2007
The VelocityTools developers are pleased to announce the first release candidate for VelocityTools 1.3. Downloads are available here.
Categories: velocity, tools
Saturday, 13 January 2007
The Velocity Tools developers are pleased to announce the first beta release of Velocity Tools 1.3. Downloads are available here.
Categories: velocity, tools
Sunday, 7 January 2007
The new Apache Velocity Web Site is online. Subscribe to the RSS feed to keep up to date.
Categories: general, velocity
Friday, 1 December 2006
As part of our move to top-level status, we moved the Subversion repository. It is now available from http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/velocity. Please update your references. If you have already checked out the source code, you can use the svn switch command to update your local copy.
Categories: general, velocity
Friday, 24 November 2006
The Velocity developers are pleased to announce the second beta release of Velocity 1.5. Downloads are available here.
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.
Some of the other new features since Velocity 1.4 include:
A complete list of changes is available at our issue tracker. You may also want to check out the draft release notes 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).
Categories: engine, velocity
Thursday, 26 October 2006
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.
Please stay tuned for our new website at http://velocity.apache.org/. In the meantime, note that our new mailing lists are user@velocity.apache.org (subscribe at user-subscribe@velocity.apache.org) for general questions, and dev@velocity.apache.org (subscribe at dev-subscribe@velocity.apache.org) for development-related activity.
Categories: general, velocity