Date of release: 2004-March-13
Maintenance and bugfix release. Some of improvements are back-portings from FreeMarker 2.3rc1.
Changes on the FTL side
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New special variable:
.vars. This is useful to read top-level variables with square bracket syntax, for example.vars["name-with-hyphens"]and.vars[dynamicName]. -
New built-ins for Java and JavaScript string escaping: j_string and js_string
Changes on the Java side
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Bugfix: The template cache didn't reload the template when it was replaced with an older version.
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Bugfix:
freemarker.template.utility.DeepUnwrapunwrapped sequences to emptyArrayList-s. -
Bugfix: In error messages, when the quoted FTL directive had nested content, that was quoted as well, so the quotation could be very long and expose nested lines needlessly.
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freemarker.template.TemplateExceptionHandler.HTML_DEBUG_HANDLERnow prints more HTML-context-proof messages. -
You can query the FreeMarker version number with static method
Configuration.getVersionNumber(). Also, theManifest.mfincluded infreemarker.jarnow contains the FreeMarker version number, furthermore, executing it withjava -jar freemarker.jarwill print the version number to the stdout. -
Date support is now labeled as final. (It was experimental earlier.) There was no change since FreeMarker 2.2.1.
Other changes
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Fixes and improvements in the Manual and in the API JavaDoc. The documentation now works with the Eclipse help plugin (accessible in the "Editor/IDE plugins" section of the FreeMarker Web page).
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Minor site improvements.
