Velocity Engine 2.2 Release Notes

The Velocity team is pleased to announce the availability of Velocity Engine 2.2.

Main changes in this release:

• New backward compatibility flags to mimic 1.7.x event handlers behavior.
• New runtime.log.track_locations debugging configuration flag which displays the VTL stack trace in the logs in cases of errors, and populates slf4j MDC tags about position in VTL templates.
• New example of how to build a customized VTL parser where the '#', '$', '*' and '@' characters can be replaced by alternate character.
• New automatic conversions from and to BigInteger and BigDecimal methods arguments types.

For a full list of changes, consult Velocity Engine 2.2 Changes section and JIRA changelog.

For notes on upgrading from Velocity 1.x, see Velocity Engine 2.2 Upgrading section.

Note for Velocity Tools users: Velocity Tools 3.0 is fully compatible with Velocity Engine 2.2.