| Title: Apache Velocity Engine - Upgrading |
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| ## Upgrading from earlier versions |
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| Release with the same major number (1.x) are intended to be drop-in replacements. However, in most cases the versions of dependency jars must be adjusted because newer versions of Velocity might require updates. |
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| ### Upgrading from Velocity 1.6 |
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| There are no changes in the dependencies since Velocity 1.6 |
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| + Deprecated $velocityCount; please use $foreach.count or $foreach.index |
| + Deprecated $velocityHasNext; please use $foreach.hasNext, $foreach.first or $foreach.last |
| + Deprecated velocimacro.context.localscope setting; please get/set local #macro references as members of the provided $macro scope control instead. (e.g. #set( $macro.foo = 'bar' ) and $macro.foo ) |
| + Deprecated directive.evaluate.context.class setting; please get/set local #evaluate references as members of the provided $evaluate scope control instead. (e.g. #set( $evaluate.foo = 'bar' ) and $evaluate.foo ) |
| + Deprecated #literal directive; please use #[[this syntax]]# instead. |
| + Changed #stop to end template rendering rather than template parsing. |
| + Removed obsolete Veltag (use VelocityViewTag in VelocityTools project) |
| + Removed obsolete WebMacro conversion code. |
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| ### Upgrading from Velocity 1.5 |
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| + [Commons Collections](http://commons.apache.org/collections/) has been upgraded to version 3.2.1. |
| + [Commons Lang](http://commons.apache.org/lang/) has been upgraded to version 2.4. |
| + [Commons Logging](http://commons.apache.org/logging/) is required for compiling and using CommonsLogLogChute. |
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| ### Upgrading from Velocity 1.4 or earlier |
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| + [JDOM](http://www.jdom.org) has been upgraded to version 1.0. |
| + [Commons Collections](http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/collections/) has been upgraded to version 3.1. |
| + [Commons Lang](http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/lang/) 2.1 has been added.</li> |
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| Optional: |
| + [Apache Ant](http://ant.apache.org) 1.6 or better is required for rebuilding. |
| + [JavaCC](http://javacc.dev.java.net) 3.2 is recommended to compile the parser files. |
| + [HSQLDB](http://www.hsqldb.org) 1.7.1 is required for running unit tests. |
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