Dear All, The Velocity developers are pleased to announce a second beta version of Apache Velocity 1.5. This beta is one of the final steps before the long-awaited version 1.5.
Beta 2 is more or less feature-complete. We said that for Beta 1 too, but couldn't resist the temptation to add a couple of nifty enhancements such as the 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. The remaining tasks mostly involve documentation. Since we haven't completed our move to the tlp web site, the files are being distributed from Jakarta. We encourage you to use the appropriate mirrors, but you can download the distribution from: http://www.apache.org/dist/jakarta/velocity/beta/velocity-1.5-beta2/ You can review a draft of release notes here: http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta-velocity/Velocity15ReleaseNotes Please report issues with this release on our bug tracker at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VELOCITY using 1.5 beta2 as the version. For the Velocity Development Team Will Glass-Husain