Lift Web Framework 2.0 Milestone 2 released

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Indrajit Raychaudhuri

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Feb 11, 2010, 1:42:57 PM2/11/10

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The Lift Web Framework team is pleased to announce the framework-2.0-
M2 release!

Lift is an expressive and elegant framework for writing web
applications. Lift stresses the importance of security,
maintainability, scalability and performance while allowing for high
levels of developer productivity. Lift is a Scala web framework.

Changes in this version include:

New features:
o Multidimensional arrays supported in JSON serialization and
extraction Issue: 279.
o Enable jQuery version switching in LiftRules Issue: 311.
o New LRU Map that works better than Apache LRU map Issue: 293.
o Allow thread-local Connection Identerifer resolution Issue: 314.

Fixed Bugs:
o lift-Json doesn't appear to be correctly handling attributes Issue:
323.
o net.liftweb.json.JsonParser.extract fails with List[List[Int]]
Issue: 279.
o Streamline JDBC library dependencies Issue: 307.
o autocomplete widget - make options settable Issue: 46.
o Ajax form submission with multiple submit buttons Issue: 280.
o Ajax change from () => Any to () => JsCmd Issue: 295.
o Add field-by-field error notifications to CRUDified fields Issue:
254.
o MappedLongForeignKey::asJsonValue should generate JNull Issue:
282.
o Additional tag support for TextileParser Issue: 284.
o TextileParser molests divs Issue: 290.
o The order of fields is random in Mapper Issue: 308.
o How overriding of _showAllTemplate to show a limited number of
columns Issue: 315.
o Control characters in input can lead to Denial of Service attacks
Issue: 319.

Changes:
o JSON object can be extracted into scala.Map (and scala.Map can be
serialized as JSON object). Recursive types can be serialized. Issue:
303.
o JSON pull parser API Issue: 333.
o Make Lift both Scala 2.7 and 2.8 friendly Issue: 292.
o Upgrade jQuery to 1.4.1 Issue: 304.