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<h1>Announcements - 2009</h1> | |
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<h4 id="a20091116">16 November 2009 - Struts 2.1.8.1 General Availability Release</h4> | |
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The Apache Struts group is pleased to announce that Struts 2.1.8.1 is | |
available as a "General Availability" release. The GA designation is our | |
highest quality grade. | |
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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. | |
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This release is a significant upgrade. We have worked hard to improve | |
some of the trouble spots from 2.0. In particular, we are releasing a | |
new plugin for XML-free configuration called the Conventions Plugin. This | |
release also features the new REST and Javatemplates plugins. The | |
AJAX functionality has been moved to a plugin to improve maintainability. | |
Many bugs have been fixed for this release, see release notes for more | |
details. | |
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Struts 2.0 will continue to be supported, but for new projects, we | |
suggest moving to Struts 2.1. | |
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Struts 2.1.8.1 is available in a full distribution, or as separate | |
library, source, example and documentation distributions, from the | |
releases page. The release is also available through the central Maven | |
repository under Group ID "org.apache.struts". The release notes are | |
available online. | |
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The 2.1.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 5. | |
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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. | |
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