When I tested with freemarker-2.3.28-incubating-SNAPSHOT.jar, which I built and install it to my local maven repo from the latest "2.3" branch myself, in my applications, I haven't found any regressions. My applications are rather simpler probably than others as they simply render model objects passed from request attributes through FreeMarkerServlet. But when I tried the new features and bug fixes [1], I think I found somethings (perhaps there could be my misunderstandings):
1. The template example in https://freemarker.apache.org/builds/fm2.3.28/ref_specvar.html#ref_specvar_get_optional_template <#assign optTemp = .get_optional_template('some.ftl')> <#if optTemp.exists> But if the 'some.ftl' doesn't exist, optTemp.exists fails as it's null. So I ended up changing it to this: <#assign optTemp = .get_optional_template('some.ftl')> <#if optTemp?? && optTemp.exists> 2. Square bracket syntax through ftl directive It reads, "This directive also determines if the template uses angle bracket syntax (e.g. <#include 'foo.ftl'>) or square bracket syntax (e.g. [#include 'foo.ftl']). Simply, the syntax used for this directive will be the syntax used for the whole template, regardless of the FreeMarker configuration settings." [2] I applied it to an included .ftl template like this: [#ftl output_format="HTML"] [="Hello"] ${"Hello"} It prints: [="Hello"] Hello, not: Hello ${"Hello"} 3. split with an empty string It says, "Bug fixed: When string?split(separator) is called with "" as the argument, the string will be split to characters now. Earlier it has thrown an IllegalArgumentException (unless the r flag was specified)." But when I tried it, it throws an IllegalArgumentException: <#assign a="hello"?split("l")> ==> java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: The separator string has 0 length at freemarker.template.utility.StringUtil.split(StringUtil.java:752) Please let me know if I miss or misinterpret somethings. Cheers, Woonsan [1] https://freemarker.apache.org/builds/fm2.3.28/versions_2_3_28.html [2] https://freemarker.apache.org/builds/fm2.3.28/ref_directive_ftl.html On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 4:08 AM, Daniel Dekany <ddek...@apache.org> wrote: > Friday, March 23, 2018, 3:33:39 AM, Woonsan Ko wrote: > >> Great to see the real release without "incubating" mark soon! > > In theory it was decided 2 days ago, but I saw nothing about the board > meeting so far. I guess they are overburdened with the May elections > and all that. > >> Also ! I've just read the Change log and everything is awesome! >> I'll just try out the snapshot binary tomorrow in our applications to >> see if there's any regression just in case. > > Great, thanks! > >> Cheers, >> >> Woonsan >> >> >> On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 6:39 PM, Daniel Dekany <ddek...@apache.org> wrote: >>> Before we start a VOTE on releasing 2.3.28, it would be good if more >>> of you can test it, or otherwise review the upcoming 2.3.28! The main >>> point in this phase is to catch technical issues. >>> >>> If you intend to help, but won't have time for it in the coming few >>> days, please indicate that, so that I know that I should wait! >>> >>> Change log (so far, but I don't plan to add more): >>> https://freemarker.apache.org/builds/fm2.3.28/versions_2_3_28.html >>> >>> Binary release artifacts: >>> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/incubator/freemarker/engine/2.3.28-incubating-SNAPSHOT/binaries/ >>> >>> Source release artifacts: >>> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/incubator/freemarker/engine/2.3.28-incubating-SNAPSHOT/source/ >>> >>> The Maven artifacts are available from the Apache snaphsot repository: >>> >>> <repository> >>> <id>apache-snapshot-repository</id> >>> <url>https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/snapshots/</url> >>> <releases><enabled>false</enabled></releases> >>> <snapshots><enabled>true</enabled></snapshots> >>> </repository> >>> >>> under the coordinates: >>> >>> <groupId>org.freemarker</groupId> >>> <artifactId>freemarker</artifactId> >>> <version>2.3.28-incubating-SNAPSHOT</version> >>> >>> and for the Google App Engine compatible (GAE) version: >>> >>> <groupId>org.freemarker</groupId> >>> <artifactId>freemarker-gae</artifactId> >>> <version>2.3.28-incubating-SNAPSHOT</version> >>> >>> The ASF Board will decide tomorrow (21th) if FreeMarker can graduate. >>> If everything goes well, this release won't have "incubating" in its >>> version number. This will be the first such release since mid 2015 >>> (2.3.23). >>> >>> -- >>> Thanks, >>> Daniel Dekany >>> >> > > -- > Thanks, > Daniel Dekany >
