Lots of goodies, but we can't upgrade until we fix the bad usage of 
macros, see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VELOCITY-681

On 05/01/2010 06:20 PM, Vincent Massol wrote:
> fyi
>
> -Vincent
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> From: Nathan Bubna<[email protected]>
>> Date: April 28, 2010 12:53:50 AM GMT+02:00
>> To: Velocity Developers List<[email protected]>, Velocity Users 
>> List<[email protected]>, [email protected]
>> Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Velocity Engine 1.7-beta1 release available
>>
>> The Velocity developers are please to announce the availability of
>> Velocity Engine 1.7-beta1.
>>
>> Downloads can be found here:
>>   http://velocity.apache.org/download.cgi
>>
>> A great deal of work has been done since the 1.6 branch.  Here's a taste:
>>
>> - Your macros can now be called with bodies when you want:
>>      #macro(foo)Here is $bodyContent#end
>>      #...@foo()body content!#end
>> - Quotes can be escaped in strings by doubling them:
>>      #set( $foo = "$person said, ""$comment"" " )
>>      #set( $bar = 'Joe said, ''Hi!'' ' )
>> - The flawed #literal directive has been replaced with:
>>      #[[ This is included but not parsed, so #if and $foo need no 
>> escaping.]]#
>>
>> Also included are namespacing improvements, better #break and #stop,
>> bracketed index syntax, and more!  For full details, please see the
>> change log:
>>   http://velocity.apache.org/engine/devel/changes-report.html
>>
>> This should work as a drop-in replacement for Velocity 1.6.3 in the
>> vast majority of cases.  However, there have been a number of
>> deprecations (should result in warnings in your log output) and a few
>> minor behavioral changes, all of which are explained in the change
>> log. :)


-- 
Sergiu Dumitriu
http://purl.org/net/sergiu/
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