Version Notes 7.0.0-M3

These are the notes for the Struts version 7.0.0-M3 distribution.

For prior notes in this release series, see Version Notes 6.3.0

Maven users

If you are a Maven user, you might want to get started using the Maven Archetype.

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.apache.struts</groupId>
  <artifactId>struts2-core</artifactId>
  <version>7.0.0-M3</version>
</dependency>

You can also use Struts Archetype Catalog like below

mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeCatalog=http://struts.apache.org/

<repositories>
  <repository>
    <id>apache.nexus</id>
    <name>ASF Nexus Staging</name>
    <url>https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/</url>
  </repository>
</repositories>

Internal Changes

• Java 17 is used as minimal supported version
• Migrated to JakartaEE

Improvement

• [WW-5391] Add interface for VelocityManager extension point
• [WW-5390] Fixes generating assemblies during release process
• [WW-5384] Update log4j2 to 2.22.1
• [WW-5393] caffeine to 3.1.8 including error_prone_annotations > 2.10.0 which depends on Java 11
• [WW-5395] Bump commons-logging:commons-logging from 1.2 to 1.3.0
• [WW-5394] Use request encoding
• [WW-5388] Fixes a few issues in Servlet 6 file upload usage
• [WW-5396] s:file shows server/file location

Other resources

• Commit Logs
• Source Code Repository