This document tracks the changes in Velocity between releases.

1.2

1.2 was released on December 9, 2001.

1.2-rc3

This section describes changes to the VEL_1_2_BRANCH after the 1.2-rc3 release. 1.2-rc3 was released on November 7, 2001 for a quick community check. It is intended to be the final rc for the 1.2 release. Small fix to Velocity.java and VelocityEngine.java for invokeVelocimacro() - the were broken in the last major VM change (months ago) and no-one noticed. (gmj) Added notes re the new no-dep jar. (gmj)

1.2-rc2

This section describes changes to the VEL_1_2_BRANCH after the 1.2-rc2 release. 1.2-rc2 was released on October 18, 2001 as an administrative fix for 1.2-rc1 (files were damaged.) Backport the 'disappearing curly' and 'nit' fixes from 1.3 (gmj) Backport autoreload infinte loop and local-scope interferance bugs. (gmj ) Backport Texen patches from Stephane Bailliez and follow-on fixes from jvz and dlr. (gmj) Changed build targets to not include external dependencies in velocity jars by default. (gmj)

1.2-rc1

This section describes changes to the VEL_1_2_BRANCH after the 1.2-rc1 release. Fix to LogSystem. ORed when I should have ANDed. Reported by Matt Gould (mpg@mpgsoftware.com). (gmj) Documentation patch for 'getting started', reported by Yuji Kumasaka (kumasaka@mms.intec.co.jp) (gmj) Changed AnakiaTask to not specify Xerces, but let JDOM find a parser. (gmj) Change reported in bug #4256 by Jim Mackraz (jim@mackraz.com) reviewd and fixed by DLR. (gmj)

1.2-dev

This section describes changes to the main branch after the 1.1 release. This was then branched as VEL_1_2_BRANCH in CVS and released as v1.2-rc1 on September 26, 2001. Fix to AbstractContext to 'roll forward' EventCartridges to ensure that the last one added is available at render time. (gmj) Small changes to developer docs re jar-src target and docs target. (gmj) Small changes to AND and OR nodes to support the legal but wacky use like #set( $foo = ($woog || $bar ) ). (gmj) Major change to Parser char stream - no longer using the stock, javacc generated ASCII 8-bit char stream but rather a Unicode 'custom' char stream. This solves the problems reported with 16 bit characters that unluckily have a 0a or 0d in the low-order byte. (gmj) Added additional templates to encoding test using contributions from Ilkka Priha, Michael Zhou and Vitaly Repetenko. Thanks guys! (gmj) Update from Russel Edens to clear fileWriter cache for Texen's Generator.java. (JSS) Fix to VM system to prevent dumping of VM namespace when using namespaces (in local.scope). (gmj) Fix to VM system to have correct 'schmoo' output of a non-reference passed as arg to VM. Thanks to DLR and Paulo for flogging this out of me :) (gmj) Updates to StringUtils from Robert Burrell Donkin. (gmj) Added MIE propogation from #parse() and VMs to propogate out. Thanks to Michael Salmon for pointing this out. (gmj) Added logging interface to Velocity class for completeness. (gmj) Patch by Michael Salmon to WebMacro converter tool to let arbitrary set of files be converted. (gmj) TokenManagerError now thrown as ParserException to allow catching at application level. (Suggested by Tim Joyce.) (gmj) Small parser fix to get ObjectArrray and IntegerRange handling right everywhere. (gmj) Speed optimzations for test provider. (dlr) Enhancement to MIE message suggested by Conor MacNeill to make interpretation of exception more useful when debugging. (gmj) Small fix to #parse() and #include() such that when the template/resource was not file based but stream based, there was no 'parent template' encoding to use for decoding the arg to #parse/#include. Runtime default is used. Thanks to Dan Finkelstein for finding this bug. (gmj) Fix to problem reported by Andreas Wikberger (and patch too!) where two loads were required to have template refresh after change when time-based caching was enabled. (gmj) Updated log4j adapter to be compatible with 1.1.x and updated jars in build/lib to match. (gmj) Changed VMFactory to not output scary messages when library is not found or empty string. Suggested by Tal Dayan. (gmj) Added auto alternator functionality to VelocityFormatter. (dlr) Modified Velocity to support separate runtime instances and added application support class o.a.v.app.VelocityEngine (gmj) Updated junit to v3.7 in build/lib (gmj) Checked in patches from Attila Szegedi which improves the XPath support in Anakia. These are fully backwards compatible with previous versions. (jss) Fixed the build/test.sh convenience script to use Ant. (jss) Intrspector fix using contributions from Attila Szegedi (szegedia@freemail.hu) - removes problems associated with access to inner classes and public interfaces on default or private facades. (gmj) Added new autoreload feature for VM system - VM global libraries will be automatically reloaded on use. See 'Configuration' section of developers guide for more info. (gmj) Logging changes : moved prefix out of RuntimeInstance into logger impl to support better log4j users who don't need it. Changed ExternalLoggerTest to support that as well as sep runtime instance. Needed to support log4j adapter contrib from Jeroen C. van Gelderen. Also, LogSystem.init() now can throw an Exception. (gmj) Also added AvalonLogSystem switch to allow user to simply specify by name a logger from the existing hierarchy. Thanks to Carsten Ziegeler. (gmj) Texen enhancement - allow to use template resources from a jar. (jvz) Allow proper propagation of VelocityExceptions (RNFE, PEE, and MIE) from #parse() and #include(), where appropriate. (gmj) Bug fix to allow formal reference to be passed into VMs. (gmj) Revamping of Introspector to allow dump of cache when classloader change is detected, by Attila Szegedi and Paulo Gaspar. (gmj) Added testcase to verify introspection cache dumped when classloader changed. (gmj) Added PrimordialLogSystem and changed RuntimeInstance to use it. (gmj) Minor fixes to ASTRefernce presentation. (gmj) Texen enhancement - allow multiple properties files to be specified. (jvz)

1.1-rc2

This section describes changes to the VEL_1_1_BRANCH after the 1.1-rc2 release. This was released as v1.1 on June 16, 2001. Update from Russel Edens to clear fileWriter cache for Texen's Generator.java. (JSS)

1.1-rc1

This section describes changes to VEL_1_1_BRANCH after the 1.1-rc1 release. This was released as v1.1-rc2 on June 2, 2001. Fix to AbstractContext to 'roll forward' EventCartridges to ensure that the last one added is available at render time. (gmj) Small changes to developer docs re jar-src target and docs target. (gmj) Small changes to AND and OR nodes to support the legal but wacky use like #set( $foo = ($woog || $bar ) ). (gmj) Major change to Parser char stream - no longer using the stock, javacc generated ASCII 8-bit char stream but rather a Unicode 'custom' char stream. This solves the problems reported with 16 bit characters that unluckily have a 0a or 0d in the low-order byte. (gmj) Added additional templates to encoding test using contributions from Ilkka Priha, Michael Zhou and Vitaly Repetenko. Thanks guys! (gmj)

1.1-dev

This section describes changes to the main branch after the 1.0.1 release. This was then branched as VEL_1_1_BRANCH in CVS and released as v1.1-rc1 on May 20, 2001. Removed build.sh and build.bat scripts in favor of making people "install" Ant. Added Kent's, others and my changes to VelocityServlet. Fundamental change is changing handleRequest() to take a req, resp and ctx args, as well as making returning null permissible to indicate that request is taken care of. (gmj) Added support for alternate encoding for templates (input sources). It is now controllable by two properties (input and output), and tested with UTF-8. UTF-8 rocks. Why are there others? :) Also added testcase. (gmj) Fixed problem where MethodInvocationExceptions were not correctly generated for method exceptions in a few places. All seems to work now. (gmj) Added fix from Charles Bennet for build.xml to include all necessary parts in classpath for building examples. (gmj) Performance improvment additions for the AST, the majority from Kent Johnson, plus his suggestions for Configuration and ResourceManager (gmj) More MethodInvocationExceptions fun : the LHS of a #set() could throw an Exception, and we wouldn't propogate it. (gmj) EventCartridge support. See docs :) (gmj) Documentation : basic EventCartridge description. (gmj) Added request specific encoding specification for templates. (gmj) Additions from Tim Joyce for more Method Exception propogation and exception event handling. (gmj) Performance patches from Kaspar Nielsen for ASTDirective and Include. (gmj) Texen patch from Robert Burrell Donkin which makes Texen throw all exceptions rather than eating them, and some javadoc. (gmj) Fix for the much acclaimed and dreaded #$foo, $$foo #$#$foofoo, etc bug. (gmj) Added some autoconfigure support for the servlet example to hele users new to Servlets, and added a little README to help then find Tomcat and setup a webapp. (gmj) Removed the .close() of the output stream in VelocityServlet and symmetrized VelocityWriter recycle. (gmj) Converted from using the Velocity Configuration class (now deprecated) to the Jakarta Commons collections component's ExtendedProperties class. (Which came from Velocity and was renamed.) Should result in no changes other than deprecation of Configuration and one deprecated method in o.a.v.app.Velocity. (gmj) Removed build/build.sh and build/build.bat and build/lib/ant*.jar to move to explicit Ant-based build. (jss) Changed JarResourceLoader to use normal 'path' configuration key and added jar test to MultiLoaderTestCase. (gmj) Updated the regexp in the WM conversion tool. (dlr) Added EventHandler test case and example, and removed NullReferenceEventHandler as redundant. (gmj) Moved all event-realated things to o.a.v.app.event package, updated all things that depend upon it, and modified the context stuff to support a public event interface. Also renamed the null set method to something more appropos, and added arg to method. (gmj) Added switch to turn off 'resource found' messages in ResourceManager. Default is on. Key is 'resource.manager.logwhenfound'. (gmj)

1.0.1-dev

Released as v1.0.1-rc1 on April 10, 2001. No changes following rc1. Released as v1.0.1 on April 22, 2001. Small fix to ASTGENode.java to catch NPE if LHS or RHS is null or not int or Integer. (gmj) Added examples-clean-forumdemo target to build.xml for cleaning up after building the forumdemo. (JSS) Small fix to ASTAndNode.java to short circuit if LHS is false, and to log an error of LHS or RHS is null. (gmj) Small fix to ASTGTNode.jave to catch NPE if LHS or RHS is null. (gmj) Documentation : changed license instructions in coding-standards.xml (gmj) Added 'throws Exception' to handleRequest() in VelocityServlet.java (suggestion from Christoph Reck) (gmj) Updates to README.txt and examples/README.txt as suggested by Kent Johnson (gmj) Added Enumerator as a valid iteration type for #foreach() - added warnings to use of same to documentation. (gmj) Added panic sqawk in AvalonLogSystem() to also go to stderr. (gmj) Finished all comparison nodes (NPE prevention and good logging) and enhanced logical.vm test template to try them all. (gmj) Added xmlapp_example to examples, and added to examples build target. Was moved from whiteboard. (gmj)

1.0b3

Released as version 1.0 on April 2, 2001 Documentation: Fix the VTL Reference guide for the #if statement. Thanks to Joaquim Carvalho for the find. (JSS) Documentation: Fixed the html in the user guide that generates the TOC so that the numbers come out in proper order. (JSS) Added common base class for application-level exceptions in package org.apache.velocity.exception. Thanks to Kyle Downey for the suggestion. (gmj) Added javadoc to o.a.v.context.AbstractContext clarifying which of the internalXXX methods are required. Thanks to Joshua Levy for the suggestion. (gmj) Added license and javadoc to examples/context_example/DBContext.java to clarify why some internalXXX methods are stubbed out. (gmj) Documentation : Clarification of VM properties and added note on VM declaration / usage order in user guide. (gmj) Fixed HttpServletRequestWrap.java - getInputStream() wasn't calling the method on the wrapped HttpServletRequest. Thanks to Shahar Solomianik. (gmj) Removed build.compiler from the build.xml file. (JSS) Fixed problem found by jon where high concurrency would lead to a dry parser pool, which would lead to vast unpleasantness masked as resource access errors. All seems to be better now. Simple fix, so little risk. (gmj) Added parser.pool.size as a configuration parameter to help tune Velocity configurations for high concurrency loads. (gmj) Documentation : developers-guide - information/example on making a custom logger, and start of work on documenting resource loaders. (gmj) Removed some debugging gibberish from InternalContextAdapterImpl.java (gmj) Committed John McNally's Texen patch to texen's Generator.java to keep from accumulating introspection cache data in iterative calls to parse() with template caching off. (gmj) Documentation : added some special-case Context information and a secion on Vel and XML in the developers guide. (gmj)

1.0b2

Released as version 1.0 beta 2 on March 26, 2001 Make the distribution have CRLF for all of the text files (JSS). Fixed release packaging to create things in the right directory structure (JSS). Re-added 'include' support for Configuration. (JVZ) Fixed VMProxy bug when reference arg was null. (#1074) (gmj) Fixed nullpointer problem in cache refresh in ResourceManager (reported by Ilkka Priha) (gmj) VelocityServlet now respects the 'default.contentType' property again. That must have fallen out during the 'request process' rework in VelServlet. (reported by csterg@aias.gr) (gmj) Changed AnakiaTask and TexenTask to use the canonical template file path rather than the literal string specified. Motivated for ease of gump-tion. Also added failonerror to the testcases.xml for the same reason. (gmj) Added Sam's suggestion for normalizing \n[\r] when comparing results to expected results in the testbed via BaseTestCase (gmj) Qualified import statments in Generator.java. Added tests for automatic boolean mapping in TexenTestCase.java. Added default boolean mapping to texen for properties used with the contextProperties option. Allow variants on boolean values in Configuration.java, and changes to relevant templates in testbed. Added default objects to context in TexenTask.java. (JVZ) Documentation changes to Configuration.java (DLR) Augmented the MethodInvocationException message in ASTMethod to make the stacktraces more useful - noted from some traffic on Turbine list. (gmj) Added powered by logo. Look in xdocs/images/powered-by-logo.psd/.gif (JSS) Changed the internals of the Configuration class so that setProperty(K,V) will replace the value at K with V; addProperty(K,V) works the way setProperty(K,V) used to: if there is a value already stored at K then V is added to the vector. If nothing is being stored at K then the scalar V is simply added. setProperty(K,V) is basically a short form for clearProperty(K)/addProperty(K,V). Also added setConfiguration(C), so that an application using velocity could easily take a subset of the application configuration using C.subset(velocityProps) and set the whole velocity configuration at once. This is now how the velocity service works in Turbine. (JVZ) Added support to the Runtime/Velocity classes for addProperty(K,V). (JVZ) Added support to Runtime/Velocity classes for setConfiguration. (JVZ) Confirmed that the build.bat works on Win98 as well as made the classpath that the build.bat generates equal to the one that build.sh generates. (JSS)

1.0b1

Initial release.