Velocity Engine 2.0 Release Notes

The Velocity team is pleased to announce the availability of Velocity Engine 2.0.

Main new features and enhancements:

• Switched to the SLF4J logging facade.
• Configurable whitespace gobbling.
• Method arguments and array subscripts can now be arithmetic expressions.
• Configurable method arguments conversion handler, which by default handles automatic conversions between booleans, numbers, strings and enums.
• Significanctly reduced memory consumption.
• JSR-223 Scripting Engine implementation.

For a full list of changes, consult Velocity Engine 2.0 Changes section and JIRA changelog.

For notes on upgrading from Velocity 1.x, see Velocity Engine 2.0 Upgrading section.

Note for Velocity Tools users: Velocity Tools 3.0 shall soon be released. Meanwhile, you are encouraged to use the Velocity Tools 3.x snapshot (see Velocity Tools 3.x Upgrading notes).