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@maartenkroon maartenkroon released this 17 Sep 15:07
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v4.0.0-RC1
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New in this release:

  • Ready-to-run distributions are now available for Linux, macOS and Windows 64-bits platforms, containing a Jetty Application Server, OpenJDK 13 and startup scripts. The .war distribution is still available; the tomcat-7-runner "uber-jar" distribution has been removed.
  • The former "XSLWeb Quick Start Guide" in PDF format has been converted and extended to the "XSLWeb Developer Manual" in HTML format (using Asciidoctor). The Developer Manual is available through Github Pages.
  • The EXPath HTTP Client implementation has been completely rewritten and is now a native XSLWeb implementation (based on the OkHttp library)  .
  • XSLWeb's Security is vastly improved and is now based on the Apache Shiro security framework. Apache Shiro is a powerful, easy-to-use and "battle-tested" Java security framework that performs authentication (Basic, Token based, LDAP, JDBC, ActiveDirectory, etc), authorization (subject/role/permission based), cryptography, and session management. The functionality of Apache Shiro is available within XSLWeb through a library of XPath extension functions.
  • Dynamic (scripted) extension functions. XSLWeb now offers a completely new way of writing XPath extension functions in Java within the XSLT stylesheet.
  • A Cache busting mechanism was added.
  • WebDAV support: all webapp's resources (XSLT stylesheets, CSS stylesheets, Javascripts, images) are now available through WebDAV.
  • Dependency library upgrades:
    • The Saxon XSLT and XQuery Processor library is upgraded to the version 10.2. This means (among other things) that higher order functions and the xsl:evaluate instruction are available in the Saxon-HE (Open Source) version.
    • The Saxon-JS integration now implements version 2.
    • The Apache Commons Upload, Text, IO, Lang, Collections, E-mail, Exec libraries are all upgraded to their latest versions.
    • The Quartz Scheduler framework is upgraded to version 2.3.2.
    • The Apache FOP (Formatting Objects Processor) is upgraded to version 2.5
    • The c3p0 connection pooling library is upgraded to version 0.9.5.5.
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