[ANN] Struts 2.5.1 General Availability
The Apache Struts group is pleased to announce that Struts 2.5.1 is available as a “General Availability” release. The GA designation is our highest quality grade. Apache Struts 2 is an elegant, extensible framework for creating enterprise-ready Java web applications. The framework is designed to streamline the full development cycle, from building, to deploying, to maintaining applications over time. This release addresses one potential security vulnerability: - S2-041 Possible DoS attack when using URLValidator http://struts.apache.org/docs/s2-041.html Also all security patches applied to version Struts 2.3.29 were also applied to this version (just in case). This release contains several improvements just to mention few of them: - contentType override ignored for JSONInterceptor - see WW-4558 - MessageStorePreResultListener does not store messages for 3rd-party RedirectResult subclasses - see WW-4618 - EmailValidator flags .cat emails as invalid - see WW-4626 - SMI cannot be disabled - see WW-4632 - Centre alignment does not seem to work in Velocity tags - see WW-4634 - Unable to process Jar entry (javassist-3.20.0-GA.jar) - see WW-4637 - Strict Method Invocation breaks Action-Less Results - see WW-4643 - When method is not allowed throw exception with meaningful message - see WW-4640 - update struts2 bom - see WW-4644 Version notes http://struts.apache.org/docs/version-notes-251.html All developers are strongly advised to perform this action. The 2.5.x series of the Apache Struts framework has a minimum requirement of the following specification versions: Servlet API 2.4, JSP API 2.0, and Java 7. Should any issues arise with your use of any version of the Struts framework, please post your comments to the user list, and, if appropriate, file a tracking ticket. You can download this version from our download page. http://struts.apache.org/download.html#struts-ga Regards -- Łukasz + 48 606 323 122 http://www.lenart.org.pl/
[ANNOUNCE] Apache Sentry 1.7.0 released!
The Apache Sentry team is happy to announce the release of version 1.7.0. Apache Sentry is a system to enforce fine grained role based authorization to data and metadata stored on a Hadoop cluster. The release bits are available at: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/sentry The change list is available at: https://s.apache.org/FTD1 We would like to thank all contributors who made the release possible! Regards, Sentry team
[ANNOUNCE] Apache Solr 6.1.0 released
17 June 2016, Apache Solr 6.1.0 available Solr is the popular, blazing fast, open source NoSQL search platform from the Apache Lucene project. Its major features include powerful full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search and analytics, rich document parsing, geospatial search, extensive REST APIs as well as parallel SQL. Solr is enterprise grade, secure and highly scalable, providing fault tolerant distributed search and indexing, and powers the search and navigation features of many of the world's largest internet sites. Solr 6.1.0 is available for immediate download at: * http://lucene.apache.org/solr/mirrors-solr-latest-redir.html Please read CHANGES.txt for a full list of new features and changes: * https://lucene.apache.org/solr/6_1_0/changes/Changes.html Solr 6.1 Release Highlights: * Added graph traversal support, and new "sort" and "random" streaming expressions. It's also now possible to create streaming expressions with the Solr Admin UI. * Fixed the ENUM faceting method to not be unnecessarily rewritten to FCS, which was causing slowdowns. * Reduced garbage creation when creating cache entries. * New [subquery] document transformer to obtatin related documents per result doc. * EmbeddedSolrServer allocates heap much wisely even with plain document list without callbacks. * New GeoJSON response writer for encoding geographic data in query responses. Further details of changes are available in the change log available at: http://lucene.apache.org/solr/6_1_0/changes/Changes.html Please report any feedback to the mailing lists ( http://lucene.apache.org/solr/discussion.html) Note: The Apache Software Foundation uses an extensive mirroring network for distributing releases. It is possible that the mirror you are using may not have replicated the release yet. If that is the case, please try another mirror. This also applies to Maven access.
[ANN] Apache Struts 2.3.29 General Availability with Security Fixes Release
The Apache Struts group is pleased to announce that Struts 2.3.29 is available as a “General Availability” release. The GA designation is our highest quality grade. Apache Struts 2 is an elegant, extensible framework for creating enterprise-ready Java web applications. The framework is designed to streamline the full development cycle, from building, to deploying, to maintaining applications over time. This release addresses two potential security vulnerabilities: - S2-035 Action name clean up is error prone - S2-036 Forced double OGNL evaluation, when evaluated on raw user input in tag attributes, may lead to remote code execution (similar to S2-029) - S2-037 Remote Code Execution can be performed when using REST Plugin. - S2-038 It is possible to bypass token validation and perform a CSRF attack - S2-039 Getter as action method leads to security bypass - S2-040 Input validation bypass using existing default action method. - S2-041 Possible DoS attack when using URLValidator This release contains several minor improvements just to mention few of them: - Json result type breaks - MessageStorePreResultListener doesn’t store messages for 3rd-party RedirectResult subclasses - Multiple tiles.xml in web.xml - New Tiles version can not find tiles*.xml files in sub-directories - EmailValidator flags .cat emails as invalid - Struts2 JSON Plugin: messages in fieldsErrors are serialized twice since jdk1.7_80 - Tile definition Inheritance/overriding is broken in Struts2 tiles plugin 2.3.28+ - generates a value attribute for type=image which violates W3C - ClassCastException while generating report using Struts 2.3.28 and jasperreports 4.5.1 More details in version notes http://struts.apache.org/docs/version-notes-2329.html All developers are strongly advised to perform this action. The 2.3.x series of the Apache Struts framework has a minimum requirement of the following specification versions: Servlet API 2.4, JSP API 2.0, and Java 6. Should any issues arise with your use of any version of the Struts framework, please post your comments to the user list, and, if appropriate, file a tracking ticket. You can download this version from our download page. http://struts.apache.org/download.html#struts-ga Regards -- Łukasz + 48 606 323 122 http://www.lenart.org.pl/
[ANNOUNCE] Apache Lucene 6.1.0 released
17 June 2016, Apache Lucene™ 6.1.0 available The Lucene PMC is pleased to announce the release of Apache Lucene 6.1.0. Apache Lucene is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written entirely in Java. It is a technology suitable for nearly any application that requires full-text search, especially cross-platform. This release contains numerous bug fixes, optimizations, and improvements, some of which are highlighted below. The release is available for immediate download at: http://lucene.apache.org/core/mirrors-core-latest-redir.html Please read CHANGES.txt for a full list of new features and changes: https://lucene.apache.org/core/6_1_0/changes/Changes.html Lucene 6.1.0 Release Highlights: New features * Numerous improvements to LatLonPoint, for indexing a latitude/longitude point and searching by polygon, distance or box, or finding nearest neighbors * Geo3D now has simple APIs for creating common shape queries, matching LatLonPoint Optimizations * Faster indexing and searching of points. * Faster geo-spatial indexing and searching for LatLonPoint, Geo3D and GeoPoint (see http://home.apache.org/~mikemccand/geobench.html ) * HardlinkCopyDirectoryWrapper optimizes file copies using hard links * In case of contention, the query cache now prefers returning an uncached Scorer rather than waiting on a lock. Bug fixes * BooleanQuery could sometimes assign too low scores to ranges of documents that matched a single clause. * Doc values updates could sometimes be applied in the wrong order. Further details of changes are available in the change log available at: http://lucene.apache.org/core/6_1_0/changes/Changes.html Please report any feedback to the mailing lists (http://lucene.apache.org/core/discussion.html) Note: The Apache Software Foundation uses an extensive mirroring network for distributing releases. It is possible that the mirror you are using may not have replicated the release yet. If that is the case, please try another mirror. This also applies to Maven access. -- Adrien
