Lift Web Framework 2.0 Milestone 1 released

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Indrajit Raychaudhuri

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Jan 14, 2010, 6:34:08 AM1/14/10

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The Lift Web Framework team is pleased to announce the framework-2.0-
M1 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:

Fixed Bugs:
o Changed LiftRules.getResourceAsStream() to doWithResource() to
ensure InputStream is always closed
Removed duplicate LiftRules.finder() Issue: 273.
o Added logging of bad prepared statements to help diagnose things.
Issue: 232.
o Fixed Mapper to properly deal with generated values Issue: 231.
o Lift explicitly closed streams rather than waiting for garbage
collection Issue: 267.
o Jetty restarts do not cause exceptions to be thrown Issue: 266.
o Fixed NPE problems in Mapper to Json Issue: 248.
o Fixed misc Textile bugs Issue: 244.
o 304 responses no longer contain content type Issue: 239.
o Fixed some null exceptions with DB queries Issue: 234.
o Fixed problems with the JNDI context Issue: 223.
o Fixed synchronization issues with Vars Issue: 222.
o File handles released correctly in Jetty Issue: 275.

Changes:
o Misc sitemap enhancements Issue: 268.
o lift-json's Jsvalue may be used with JsonResponse Issue: 262.
o Better handling of flot widget in Comet Issue: 247.
o Enhanced stateful rewrite Issue: 243.
o Added post-commit hook to DB Issue: 242.
o Wizard supports file upload forms Issue: 241.
o Enhanced TestCond widget Issue: 240.
o Enhanced connection pool logic Issue: 236.
o OAuth support (thanks to the FourSquare guys) Issue: 276.
o Extracted "Screen" code from Wizard for stand-alone declarative
input screens Issue: 250.
o Restructure project (segregated into three logical projects:
framework, archetypes, examples)