MyFaces Release Notes
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Changes in Release 1.0.9 
* added support for portlet api (MYFACES-86). Thanks to Stan Silver (JBoss Group)
* new CollapsiblePanel Component
* new selectOneCountry component
* added forceId to <x:inputText for better reuse of legacy JavaScript
* added russian i18n.
* added HOWTO Portlet-API (MYFACES/docs/portlet_quick_start.txt)
* improvements for tree2 component from Sean Schofield
* added caching to the ExtensionsFilter
* rename x:htmlEditor to x:inputHtml
* added fallback textarea mode to inputHtml
* added crosstable component (x:columns)
* closed MYFACES-38 in Jira
* closed MYFACES-85 in Jira
* closed MYFACES-96 in Jira (Jason Hoo)
* closed MYFACES-91 in Jira 
* closed MYFACES-79 in Jira 
* closed MYFACES-90 in Jira (i18n support)
* closed MYFACES-86 in Jira (portlet)
* closed MYFACES-83 in Jira (Refactored HtmlTableRendererBase)
* closed MYFACES-82 in Jira (Use submitted value for Radio Buttons)
* closed MYFACES-81 in Jira (StateManager.SerializedView should not implement Serializable)
* closed MYFACES-88 in Jira
* closed MYFACES-89 in Jira
* closed MFACES-76 in Jira
* closed MFACES-74 in Jira
* closed MFACES-104 in Jira
* closed MYFACES-101 in Jira
* closed MYFACES-106 in Jira
* closed MYFACES-60 in Jira
* closed MYFACES-77 in Jira
* closed MYFACES-73 in Jira
* closed MYFACES-97 in Jira
* closed MYFACES-98 in Jira
* closed MYFACES-109 in Jira
* closed MYFACES-111 in Jira
* closed MYFACES-112 in Jira
* closed MYFACES-116 in Jira
* closed MYFACES-125 in Jira
* closed MYFACES-121 in Jira
* closed MYFACES-122 in Jira
* closed MYFACES-126 in Jira
* closed MYFACES-128 in Jira
* closed MYFACES-132 in Jira
* closed MYFACES-138 in Jira
* closed MYFACES-153 in Jira
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Changes in Release 1.0.8 beta_RC2
* added a new RenderKit, that renders WML. Thanks to Jiri Zaloudek for his contribution
* upgrade the components use the ExtensionsFilter
  this means you don't need to include the myfaces javascripts and style sheets in your app anymore.
* bug fix examples webapp libraries for tomcat version > 5.5
* new x:buffer component
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Changes in Release 1.0.8 beta_RC1
* move to Apache Incubator (root package is now "org.apache.myfaces")
* providing a tld for MyFaces custom components, that still contains
  the 'old' sf-URI name for backward compatibility
* i18n support for Brazilian Portuguese; thanks to Rogerio Pereira
* bug fix #1045363 New <br> and &nbsp; 'feature'
* bug fix MYFACES-9: store iconChildMiddle in component state
* bug fix #1006636 VisibleOnUserRole attribute for x:panelTab tag
* bug fix #1049792 rendered attribute is disabled for commandNavigation
* bug fix #1042890 HtmlNavigationRenderer renders separator for parameters
* bug fix #1046763 Temp jar built at config time not deleted
* bug fix MYFACES-50: JBuilder 2005 fails to load TLD file descriptors
* bug fix #1044663 visibleOnUserRole attribute for navigationMenuItem
* refactor the jar files :
  - myfaces-jsf-api.jar contains the api classes (no change)
  - myfaces-impl.jar contains the standard jsf implementation
  - myfaces-extensions.jar contains the myfaces extensions
  - myfaces.jar containes all the myfaces code, and can be used in place of the 3 above
* add an x:aliasBean component
* add an x:div component
* add a validator for ISBN codes (<x:validateISBN/>)
* new tree table feature contributed by David Le Strat (MYFACES-8)
* new ExtensionsFilter, replacing the MultipartFilter, and allowing embedded resources in the jar
* new x:popup component
* popup component now uses embeded resources
* calendar component now uses embeded resources
* new HTML Editor component (<x:htmlEditor>). Basically, it's an rich text WYSIWYG component.
* add a popup calendar to the inputDate tag.
* Some tiles support enhancements
* localization for spanish from Spain (es_es) or catalan (ca / es_ca)
* new JavaScript support tags and components - x:jsValueSet, x:jsValueChangeListener
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Changes in Release 1.0.7 beta
* new custom component: HtmlPanelStack
* new custom component: Stylesheet
* new extended HtmlInputTextarea component (with user role support)
* new Autoscroll feature (restores horizontal and vertical browser page scrolling)
* new previousRowDataVar attribute in extended HtmlDataTable (see tld description)
* Japanese translation
* fixed problems with nested UIData and HtmlDataTable components
* writeText method in default ResponseWriter now maps newlines to <br/> and
  successive spaces to &nbsp; entities
* corrected some problems with rowIndexVar and rowCountVar in HtmlDataList
* extended HtmlDataTable now also supports rowIndexVar and rowCountVar
* bug #1020264 x:navigationMenuItem icon problem
* bug #1010800 [PATCH] improve examples's i18n and Japanese support
* bug #1019443 no setter method corresponding to TLD declared attribute
* bug #1019807 add anothere DTD System ID for web.xml
* bug #1038697 h:selectOneRadio generates malformed XHTML
* bug #1038716 Empty h:selectManyCheckbox generates malformed HTML
* bug #1031187 [PATCH] JspViewHandlerImpl: Remove dep on ServletRequest
* bug #1031182 [PATCH] FacesMessage.getDetail
* bug #998464 request charset handling is invalid
* bug #1001511 fileupload compponent don't support setHeaderEncoding
* bug #1008043 applied patch for ServletExternalContextImpl by Takashi Okamoto
* fixed StackOverflow in ClassUtils and cleaned up ClassUtils methods
* full revision of extended HtmlDataTable so that there is no more cache problem
* HtmlCommandSortHeader now supports immediate attribute
* bug fix: No decode for spread checkbox or radio
* bug fix: NPE in MessageUtils when there was no ViewRoot
* bug #1012909 support Oracle ADF
* bug #1007065 f:view should tokenize locale attribute
* bug #1013489 support EL expression at <f:loadBundle>
* Tiles support: ServletContextListener (JspTilesViewHandlerInitializer) no longer needed
* outputText (and other components) needed to render a span-tag if they have a custom-set id
* required HtmlInputFileUpload validates now correctly
  (and shows a message) if submitted value exists and the value is empty

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Changes in Release 1.0.6 beta
* switch to apache license
* new JspTilesViewHandler for flawless Tiles support
* RFE #975649 Enhance HtmlTabbedPaneRenderer (rendered attribute for TabbedPane component)
* RFE #990814 dataList component ignores styleClass attribute
* bug #1004867 h:message has duplicate attributes
* bug #1004896 h:dataTable id attribute not rendered
* bug #995085 graphicImage ignores value attribute
* bug #992668 selectOneMenu doesn't restore the bean value if it's a primitive
* bug #992628 StateManager.SerializedView is not static
* bug #992629 FacesContext.getRenderKit() unimplemented
* bug #992452 HtmlTree doesn't properly restore state
* bug #991740 HtmlTreeRender icon URL conversion
* bug #991234 command links not working with javascript disabled
* bug #990395 myfaces.jar has bad taglib descriptor
* bug #990302 Navigation-Rule redirect
* bug #985274 f:view locale does not always work
* bug #978654 Input hidden value of null being converted to zero
* bug #979038 jsCookMenu component does not create dummyForm
* bug #979039 default-values for ConvertNumberTag and ConvertDateTimeTag
* changed build.xml - now myfaces-components are shipped via bin-distribution
* bug #985217 decorator-factory not supported
* splitting jar-files (myfaces.jar, myfaces-jsf-api.jar, myfaces-components.jar)
* new EXPERIMENTAL feature to detect JavaScript support of a client browser

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Changes in Release 1.0.5 beta
* new faces configurator
* new validator (Regular Expressions)
* new validator (Equal)
* new component (rssticker)
* new component (dataScroller)
* new component (jscookMenu)
* modified renderers to comply with version 1.1 of the spec
* modified dataList to support active components (comandLink, ...)
* bug #955111	RestoreState of outputText with mixed ValueBinding attribute
* bug #962084	rowClasses in GridRenderer
* bug #967991	Action always called twice
* bug #952385  	decorator only for Viewhandler available
* bug #957938 	map-entries in faces-config.xml
* bug #970747	Incorrect rendering of <select> tag
* bug #972165	<h:selectBooleanCheckbox> and disabled attribute

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Changes in Release 1.0.4 beta

IMPORTANT NOTE: because of fix for bug #952453 the context parameter
javax.faces.application.CONFIG_FILES was changed to the spec-compliant
javax.faces.CONFIG_FILES. You have to modify your web.xml accordingly,
otherwise your config files will no longer be found and parsed.

* new renderedIfEmpty attribute for extended <x:dataTable> component (see tlddocs)
* new validators (creditcard, email)
* bug #961241	Checkbox in dataTable problem
* bug #960581	<x:panelTabbedPane selectedIndex
* bug #959926	<h:selectOneRadio and styleClass
* bug #953783	h:commandLink renders value as text
* bug #955135	graphicImage tag
* bug #952453	Class FacesConfigFactoryBase search for wrong context-param
* bug #951988	myfaces doesn't read faces-config.xml in foo.jars
* bug #951896	command links broken if ALLOW_JAVASCRIPT=false
* bug #948629	UpdateActionListener looking for String -> Object converter
* bug #948626	hiddenInput does not decode and store value
* bug #948110	h:selectManyCheckbox styleClass handling
* bug #943587	<h:commandLink> does not recognize target attribute.
* bug #943166	Managed bean properties cannot use native data types?
* many bugfixes ;-)

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Changes in Release 1.0.3 alpha
* commandLink javascript error bug fixed
* bug #943210 ("outputLink produces very long URLs that don't work") fixed
* bug #945118 ("Checkbox session state") fixed

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Changes in Release 1.0.2 alpha
* refactored custom components to org.apache.myfaces.custom package
* custom message and messages component with new attributes summaryFormat and detailFormat
* replaced com.oreilly.servlet lib cos.jar by commons-codec for Base64 encoding
* fileupload component now uses commons-fileupload instead of com.oreilly.servlet lib cos.jar
* new tree component
* Weblogic startup issue now fixed when MyFacesServlet is used instead of FacesServlet
* validator attribute now supported
* many many bugfixes

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Changes in Release 1.0.1 alpha
* new DataList component (dynamical List based on UIData - see examples webapp)
* new (speadsheet like) editable table example (see master/detail example in examples webapp)
* x-checked various Renderers for Specs (tlddoc) compliance
* serious bug in UIData fixed
* server state saving bug fixed
* <f:convertNumber> threw NPE - fixed
* HiddenRenderer fixed
* <x:panelTabbedPane> now supports dynamic jsp includes and <f:subview>
* many small bugfixes

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Changes in Release 1.0.0 alpha
* MyFaces has it's own JSF-API Implementation now!
  (Sun's jsf-api.jar will no longer be needed)
* Sun's JSF-RI samples (cardemo, guessNumber) now run with MyFaces!
  (see Documentation on http://www.myfaces.org)
* all core tags implemented now
* new Calendar component (see examples webapp)  
* Bugfixes

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Changes in Release 0.9.1
* Many, many changes to catch up with final Spec. 1.0

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Changes in Release 0.9.0
* Many, many changes to catch up with current Spec. 1.0 Proposed Final Draft
* Some config parameters abandoned (see migration-0.4-to-0.9.txt)
* new config parameter "myfaces_allow_javascript" (see /conf/web.xml for description)
* new config parameter "myfaces_pretty_html" (see /conf/web.xml for description)

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Changes in Release 0.4.4
* added "rendererType" attribute to tag library for all components.
* added RadioRenderer & selectone_radio tag (see carconfigurator example)
* new hack to make MyFaces more compatible (tags that extend UIComponentTag
  directly should work better)
* replaced the proprietary logging by jakarta commons logging
* convert/impl/DateConverter now parses with the "formatPattern" of the component
  if all other parsing attempts fail
* hyperlink-attributes where added to sortcolumn

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Changes in Release 0.4.3
* fixed a bug in the navigation menu: open/active state was lost sometimes.
* removed Attribute levelClasses from NavigationTag - see NavigationRenderer.indent(...)
* Replaced usages of ObjectInputStream by the new derived class
  MyFacesObjectInputStream to finally fix the JBoss Class.forName issue
  --> MyFaces now works in JBoss 3.2.1 (thanks to Robert Gothan!)
* TextRenderer: empty <span> element (span without attributes) is not rendered anymore
* New configuration option "defaultLanguage" in MyFacesConfig
* New Renderer "TabbedPane" that renderes a swing-like tabbed Pane (see examples).
* Rudimentary support for <jsp:include>. See known issues for details.
* fixed bug in ListRenderer: there was a bug when calculating actualRow

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Changes in Release 0.4.2
* Simple EL Support: For Tags derived from MyFacesTag you can use "${expr}"
  Syntax. The given expr is evaluated via ValueBinding.
* Dynamic validators (i.e. validators added during runtime) are now supported
  by MinimizingStateSaver.
* getValidator() in ApplicationImpl returned always the same validator
  instance: fixed.
* Support for converter attributes "dateStyle", "formatPattern", etc.
* added Attribute activeItemClass to NavigationTag
* refurbished navigation menu in examples application
* replaced all usages of Class.forName(s) by Class.forName(s, true,
  Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader()) to (hopefully) resolve the
  JBoss issues

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Changes in Release 0.4.1
* VariableResolverImpl resolves implicit objects
* <navigation_item> does no longer have a treeId. Use action attribute and
  appropriate NavigationRules instead.
* fixed Tomcat 4.1.x Tag related issues
* fixed FacesConfigEntityResolver to be more "compatible"

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Changes in Release 0.4.0
* Many, many changes to catch up with current Spec. 1.0 PRD2 (= Early access release 4)

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Changes in Release 0.3.3
* Stylesheet support for navigation-menu along with implementing a lots of other common attributes
* Validators added
* DataRenderer works standalone now (before it just could be used within a List)

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Changes in Release 0.3.2

* some serious bugs fixed (Tomcat 4.1.x issues)
* UIFileUpload with FileUploadRenderer and FileUploadTag
* new "File upload" example
* added com.oreilly.servlet package cos.jar:
   - Base64 encoding instead of MimeUtility from mail.jar
   - MultiPartFilter for the new UIFileUpload
* removed mail.jar: was only needed for Base64-Encoding
* web-application "tagunit" added (only CVS), can be used for testing myfaces-taglibs
* "enabledOnUserRole" and "visibleOnUserRole" attributes for miscellaneous input
  and command components
* "setBundle" tag
* "errors" tag renamed to "output_errors"
* "image" tag renamed to "graphic_image"
* "input_errors" tag was removed (see "output_errors")
* Facet support (see KnownIssues.txt !)
* Enhanced JspInfo caching. Automatic check for modified JSPs.

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Changes in Release 0.3.1

* completely restructured directories
* revised documentation
* revised build files
* 4 different state-saving modes: see features.html for details

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Changes in Release 0.3.0

* This is a major release, that has lots of changes to make MyFaces
  conform to the new EA3 specification.
* UISortHeader with SortColumnRenderer (see features.html)
* LayoutRenderer (see features.html)

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Changes in Release 0.1.4

* tons of adds, changes and fixes to better conform to the specification.
* List- and GridRenderer, new sample pages

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Changes in Release 0.1.3

* new features
    - alternative servlet-mapping by file extension:
      Instead of mapping the FacesServlet with the virtual path
      "/faces/*", it's now possible to map the Servlet to "*.jsf".
      This new mapping is the default mapping method in this release.

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Changes in Release 0.1.2

* new features
    - detailed "Features" page

* cosmetic changes
    - imports optimized
    - MessageListRenderer moved to subpackage "ext"

* bug fixes:
    - state saving and restoring of "stringValue" Attribute fixed

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Changes in Release 0.1.1

Sun asked me to remove the file "jsf-api.jar" from the public
distribution. (Release 0.1 will no longer be available)


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