These are the notes for the Struts 2.3.28 distribution.
For prior notes in this release series, see Version Notes 2.3.20
- If you are a Maven user, you might want to get started using the Maven Archetype.
- Another quick-start entry point is the blank application. Rename and deploy the WAR as a starting point for your own development.
- There is huge number of examples you can also use as a starting point for you application here
Maven Dependency
<dependency> <groupId>org.apache.struts</groupId> <artifactId>struts2-core</artifactId> <version>2.3.28</version> </dependency>
You can also use Struts Archetype Catalog like below
Struts Archetype Catalog
mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeCatalog=http://struts.apache.org/
Staging Repository
<repositories> <repository> <id>apache.nexus</id> <name>ASF Nexus Staging</name> <url>https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/</url> </repository> </repositories>
Internal Changes
- Possible XSS vulnerability in pages not using UTF-8 was fixed, read more details in S2-028
- Prevents possible RCE when reusing user input in tag's attributes, see more details in S2-029
-
I18NInterceptor
narrows selected locale to those available in JVM to reduce possibility of another XSS vulnerability, see more details in S2-030 - New
Configurationprovider
type was introduced - ServletContextAwareConfigurationProvider, see WW-4410 - Setting status code in
HttpHeaders
isn't ignored anymore, see WW-4545 - Spring
BeanPostProcessor(s)
are called only once to constructed objects., see WW-4554 - OGNL was upgraded to version 3.0.13, see WW-4562
- Tiles 2 Plugin was upgraded to latest available Tiles 2 version, see WW-4568
- A dedicated assembly with minimal set of jars was defined, see WW-4570
- Struts2 Rest plugin properly handles JSESSIONID with DMI, see WW-4585
- Improved the Struts2 Rest plugin to honor Accept header, see WW-4588
MessageStoreInterceptor
was refactored to usePreResultListener
to store messages, see WW-4605- A new annotation was added to support configuring Tiles -
@TilesDefinition
, see WW-4606 - and many other small improvements, please see the release notes