| Type | Changes | By |
|---|
 | New StringResourceLoader can retrieve templates from repository of in-memory Strings. Fixes VELOCITY-183. Thanks to Eelco Hillenius. | henning |
 | RuntimeInstance.getProperty now returns value set with RuntimeInstance.setProperty, even before initialization. Fixes VELOCITY-493. Thanks to Claude Brisson. | wglass |
| When macros have incorrect number of arguments, if property "velocimacro.arguments.strict" is set to true a ParseErrorException will be thrown. Fixes VELOCITY-435. | wglass |
| MethodInvocationException now contains line, column, template name allowing application to produce more useful error messages. Fixes VELOCITY-414. Thanks to Matthijs Lambooy. | henning |
| Fixed race condition in template retrieval that caused macros to fail under simultaneous load. Fixes VELOCITY-24. | henning |
| New event handler InvalidReferenceHandler allows application to catch invalid references. Sample implementation collects them in list and optionally throws exception. Fixes VELOCITY-423. | wglass |
| New, optional SecureIntrospector prohibits methods that involve manipulation of classes, classloaders or reflection objects. Use this introspector to secure Velocity against a risk of template writers using reflection to perform malicious acts. Fixes VELOCITY-179. | wglass |
| Removed Serializable from InternalContextBase, because one of the members is not serializable anyway so this never worked (Found by Findbugs). Fixes VELOCITY-458. | henning |
| Add an additional pair of Executors that are smart about Map. Fixes VELOCITY-449. Thanks to Alexey Panchenko. | henning |
| Method caching now uses consistent keys. Fixes VELOCITY-453. Thanks to Alexey Panchenko. | wglass |
| Change the meaning of localscope for macros to allow access to references from calling context. Fixes VELOCITY-459. Thanks to Stephen Haberman. | wglass |
| Add a test for the DataSourceResource Loader. | henning |
| Fix a problem in the DataSourceResource Loader, removing a potential security issue with SQL injection. | henning |
| Build now creates the MD5 and SHA1 checksums for archives and jars. | henning |
| Fix a number of issues reported by running FindBugs on the Velocity source. | henning |
| Type | Changes | By |
|---|
| Stop references from calling object.toString() twice. Fixes VELOCITY-438. Thanks to Stephen Haberman. | wglass |
 | Pass through all runtime exceptions. Among other benefits, this allows plugins to throw a runtime exception to signify an application level problem in the calling application. Fixes VELOCITY-429. | wglass |
| When #include was followed by #parse with the same file name, a ClassCastException was thrown. Fixes VELOCITY-98. Thanks to Michal Chmielewski. | wglass |
| Wrapped exceptions now have Cause property set on JDK 1.4. (note that Velocity continues to run under JDK 1.3). Fixes VELOCITY-425. Thanks to Llewellyn Falco. | wglass |
| When Velocity is initialized, default.properties stream was not being closed. This made it difficult to undeploy webapps on Windows with Velocity unpacked. Fixes VELOCITY-418. Thanks to Jason Weinstein. | wglass |
| Upgraded to latest commons collection, fixing problem with non-recognition of configuration file encoding in rare circumstances. Fixes VELOCITY-151. Thanks to Kirk Wolf. | wglass |
| The Introspector could throw a NPE when a parameter to an overloaded method was null. Fixes VELOCITY-370. Thanks to Reggie Riser. | wglass |
| If toString() returned null in a silent reference then "null" was displayed. Fixes VELOCITY-381. Thanks to Llwellyn Falco and Dan Powell. | wglass |
| Fixed bug in which empty body for #if (e.g. #if(some expression)#end caused ParseException. Fixes VELOCITY-359. | wglass |
| Added javacc task to build.xml simplifying modification process for editing syntax files. Fixes VELOCITY-222. | wglass |
| Velocity Engine was throwing NPE when used without a call to init(). Now gives a more meaningful exception message. Fixes VELOCITY-374. | wglass |
| Fixed problem with Uberspect Info class being created incorrectly. Added template name to Info allowing better error reporting. Fixes VELOCITY-404. Thanks to Llewellyn Falco. | wglass |
| Numerous improvements to the documentation. Reorganized table of contents, moved community content to the Wiki, added article on using Velocity in web applications. | wglass |
| When testing objects in VTL for equality, if both objects are a number, use number equality. If both objects are the same class, use the equals method. New behavior: If objects are different classes, compare the String representation of both objects rather than logging an error. Fixes VELOCITY-350. | wglass |
| Velocity would give error when last line of file was a ## comment. Fixes VELOCITY-272. | wglass |
| Added method to retrieve application attributes. Fixes VELOCITY-412. Thanks to Malcolm Edgar. | wglass |
| Velocity now searches in the current thread's context classloader before the system classloader for all templates loaded with the ClasspathResourceLoader and for all user-defined ResourceLoaders, introspectors, event handlers, etc. A typical use for this is to have Velocity in the application container classpath while keeping templates and plugins in the webapp classpath. Fixes VELOCITY-196. | wglass |
| #set now sets references to null when required. For backwards compatibility this must be enabled by setting the configuration key directive.set.null.allowed to true. Thanks to Thomas Veith. | wglass |
| New optional event handler that escapes all references. Regular expressions can be used to configure which references have HTML, JavaScript, SQL, or XML escaping. | wglass |
| New optional event handler implementation that forces #parse / #include to stay in same directory as parent template. Fixes VELOCITY-154. | wglass |
| New event handler to modify behavior of #parse / #include. Fixes VELOCITY-260. | wglass |
| FileResourceLoader now accepts absolute path when configured to accept it. Fixes VELOCITY-144. | wglass |
| String containing "##" was treated as unterminated String. Fixes VELOCITY-126. | wglass |
| Spruced up Geir's old URLResourceLoader and promoted it from the whiteboard to the main distribution. Fixes VELTOOLS-55. Thanks to Charles Harvey. | nbubna |
| Throw Runtime exceptions from nodes up the chain. Fixes VELOCITY-424. Thanks to Malcom Edgar. | henning |
| Revert the split between org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.Node and org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.Node. The parser now only uses ...parser.node.Node because this change broke custom directives. Fixes VELOCITY-426. Thanks to Malcom Edgar. | henning |
| Made a lot of internal logging upgrades including: Deprecated LogSystem interface and replaced it (and all its implementations) with a new LogChute interface and implementations, added getLog() to RuntimeServices (and all its friends) to improve on and replace its now deprecated logging methods, added a JdkLogChute as a 3rd default option for those using JDK 1.4+, and added a StandardOutLogChute as final resort if other LogChute inits fail. See JIRA issues VELOCITY-403, VELOCITY-166, VELOCITY-403,VELOCITY-166,VELOCITY-78, VELOCITY-157, VELOCITY-159, VELOCITY-193. Fixes VELOCITY-403. | nbubna |
 | Removed all J2EE build tasks. Now automatically detects availability of javax.sql.Datasource (in JDK 1.4+) and builds DatasourceResourceLoader when allowed. Fixes VELOCITY-401. | henning |
| ant build now downloads the required dependency jars from ibiblio.org | henning |
| Unified template name, line and column number reporting for ParserErrorException Fixes VELOCITY-373. Thanks to Malcolm Edgar. | henning |
| Dropped the non-functional Velocity compiler. | henning |
| Started separating out the JavaCC generated parts of the Velocity Parser. Not yet complete to avoid user visible changes. Scheduled to be completed for 2.0 | henning |
| Contributed a maven build for Velocity | henning |
| Reworked the ant build to product only two jars: velocity.jar and velocity-dep.jar. | henning |
| Removed the Configuration class and all methods that references it. This class was deprecated since Velocity 1.1 and was scheduled to be gone for Velocity 1.3 or 1.4. Now it was finally removed in 1.5. | henning |
| Added support for decimal numbers. Fixes VELOCITY-242. Thanks to Peter Romianowski. | wglass |
| MethodInvocationException now consistently thrown (previously was hidden when in parameter to Velocimacro). Fixes VELOCITY-284. Thanks to Mike Rettig. | wglass |
| Fixed problem in which foreach loop would fail to call overloaded method. Fixes VELOCITY-109. | wglass |
| Removed ERROR level log message "Can't find 'VM_global_library.vm'". Fixes VELOCITY-86. | wglass |
| Anakia now generates consistent line endings based on platform. Requires upgrade to JDom 1.0. Fixes VELOCITY-348. | wglass |
| Anakia can now be pre-loaded with custom context values from an optional XML file. Fixes VELOCITY-190. Thanks to Peter Ryan. | wglass |
| Directives can now be delimited with curly braces, for example #if($condition)something#{else}otherthing#{end}. Fixes VELOCITY-43. | wglass |
| Nulls now handled appropriate within #foreach. Fixes VELOCITY-254. Thanks to Christopher Reck. | wglass |
| Upgraded JavaCC to version 3.2, providing JDK 1.5 compatibility. (Older version used keyword 'enum' which is reserved in JDK 1.5). Fixes VELOCITY-324. Thanks to Shinobu Kuwai. | wglass |
| DatasourceResourceLoader now allows injection of Datasource, allowing it to be used in Inversion of Control (IOC) frameworks. Fixes VELOCITY-267. Thanks to Matt Raible . | wglass |
| #stop now works properly. Fixes VELOCITY-218. | wglass |
| ClasspathResourceLoader now searches ContextClassLoader for template. Fixes VELOCITY-196. Thanks to Charles Oliver Nutter. | wglass |
| Removed use of Log4J's deprecated Category and Priority classes in favor of the corresponding and supported Logger and Level. To update, replace necessary references, and Category.getInstance() with Logger.getLogger(). Fixes VELOCITY-164. | dlr |
| New Map literal syntax. Fixes VELOCITY-152. Thanks to James Taylor. | wglass |
| Removed the long-deprecated Log4JLogSystem. Never fear, SimpleLog4JLogSystem remains. | dlr |
| Enhanced the implementation of ResourceCacheImpl using Jakarta Commons Collections LRUMap class. The previous greedy implementation did not set an upper bound for the cache size, meaning that cached resources were never relinquished (a possible memory leak). You can continue to use that behavior by setting the resource.manager.cache.size for your cache to less than 1. | dlr |
| Took dan's modified SimpleLog4jLogSystem, and renamed Log4JLogSystem, and put back old version of SimpleLog4JLogSystem, as deprecated. That way we can move forward with an up-to-date version that uses Logger, and for one release, be backwards compatile for the Category-using log4j crowd. Thanks to Daniel Rall. | geirm |
| Deprecated org.apache.velocity.tools.VelocityFormatter class in favor of the various format classes in the Velocity Tools library. | wglass |
| Deprecated the org.apache.velocity.servlet.VelocityServlet class in favor of org.apache.velocity.tools.view.servlet.VelocityViewServlet from the Velocity Tools library. Servlet interaction is more a core competency of the Velocity Tools package than of Velocity's core. | dlr |
| Fix to BaseTestCase as suggested by Will Glass-Husain to handle line endings Fixes VELOCITY-185. Thanks to wglass. | geirm |
| Parameterized cache and mod time control in TexenTask based on patch from Henning. Thanks to henning. | |
| Fix to DatasourceResourceLoader - stop using the old Runtime singleton as would leak a little memory for each instance of VelocityEngine created. Hunted down by Will Glass-Husain. Fixes VELOCITY-150. Thanks to wglass. | geirm |
| SimplePool now removes elements from pool on a get(). NOTE : Previously, it left the reference to the object in the pool. Fixes VELOCITY-161. Thanks to wglass. | geirm |
| Fixes problem with single line comment embedded in a multi-line comment. Fixes VELOCITY-61. Thanks to wglass. | geirm |
| Change for VELOCITY-221 and partial for VELOCITY-148, allowing newlines in directives. Fixes VELOCITY-221. | geirm |
| Change to finish request VELOCITY-148, allowing '+' as a string concat. We'll have to see how the community likes it. Fixes VELOCITY-148. | geirm |
| Didn't allow formal reference notation as first arg to foreach. Fixes VELOCITY-239. | geirm |
| To make using w/ XML easier allow alternative logical operators 'and', 'or', 'lt', 'gt', 'le', 'ge', 'eq', 'ne', 'not'. | geirm |
| Allow newlines in strings. | geirm |
| Tiny fix to VelocityWriter to prevent a NPE if someone passes it a null Fixes VELOCITY-148. | geirm |
| Anakia changes to accomodate finalization of JDOM API. In AnakiaJDOMFactory, AnakiaTask, and OutputWrapper | geirm |
| Added template, line and column info to MIEs thrown by ASTMethod | geirm |
