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    <name>ASF Nexus Staging</name>
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Internal Changes

•  All security patches from prior versions were merged into this version
• XWork source was merged into Struts Core source, it means that there be no more xwork artifact nor dedicated jar
• Spring dependency for tests and spring plugin was upgraded to version 4.1.6, see WW-4510.
• Struts2 internal logging api was marked as deprecated and was replaced with new Log4j2 api as logging layer, see WW-4504.
• Struts2 is now build with JDK7, see WW-4503.
• New plugin to support bean validation is now part of the distribution, see WW-4505.
• Deprecated plugins are now removed from the distribution and are not longer supported anymore.
  • Dojo Plugin
  • Codebehind Plugin
  • JSF Plugin
  • Struts1 Plugin
• New security option was added - Strict Method Invocation (also known as Strict DMI), see WW-4540
• Added support for latest stable AngularJS in Maven archetype, see WW-4522
• Dropped support for id and name - replaced with var, see WW-2069
• Dedicated archive with a minimal set of dependencies was introduced, see WW-4570
• It is possible to use multiple names when defining a result, see WW-4590
• Rest plugin honors Accept header, see WW-4588

• New result 'JSONActionRedirectResult' in json-plugin was defined, see WW-4591

• Tiles plugin was upgrade to the latest Tiles 3 and tiles3-plugin was dropped, see WW-4584
• JasperReports plugins was upgraded to JasperReport 6.0, see WW-4381
• OGNL was upgraded to version 3.1.4 and it breaks access to properties as it follows Java Bean Specification, see WW-4207 and WW-3909
• Annotations to configure Tiles, see WW-4594 and Tiles Plugin

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