Milestone 7 released

[Charles F. Munat]

The Lift Web Framework team is pleased to announce the lift-1.1-M7 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 Enhanced the documentation for an type signatures for Actors
o Revised Lift to use LiftActors and be compatible with Akka Actors
o DB.runQuery isn't ConnectionIdentifier-aware Issue: 125.
o JSON diff and merge
o Add parameterized ?? to S Issue: 82.

Fixed Bugs:
o Textile parser outputs non-valid output. Changed some null to Null.
Issue: 94. Thanks to vdichev.
o S.deleteCookie broken in M6 Issue: 126.
o Misspelling in field name in ProtoExtendedSession Issue: 119.
o net.liftweb.widgets.autocomplete in version 1.1-M6
changed return type from NodeSeq to Elem Issue: 120.
o StatefulSnippets generate invalid markup Issue: 122.
o Stacked URL Rewriting correctly deals with params Issue: 143.
o Simplified Factory signatures in LiftRules Issue: 141.
o Use paranamer to find out case class constructor argument names
o Enhance CRUDify i18n Issue: 84.
o Inaccurate ranges for previous and next (page) in CRUDify Issue: 87.
o No i18n for "Sign Up" in MetaMegaProtoUser.signupXhtm Issue: 81.
o Lost password submit button is not rendered correctly Issue: 111.
o Signup mail body not i18ned Issue: 113.
o Misspelled Key "pasword.changed" in ProtoUser.scala Issue: 114.
o Enhance Msgs snippet to optionally show all messages Issue: 123.
o MappedPassword contains misspelled key for unset password Issue: 157.

Changes:
o Improve error message if database is not supported Issue: 57.
o Change net.liftweb.mapper.ByList to take a Seq[T] instead of a List[T]
Issue: 77.
o Boxed payment status so that IPN cancelations appear as
Empty. Breaking API change for implementors. Issue: 88.
o Updated Lift to use Scala 2.7.7 Issue: 142.
o Restructured Lift codebase (now categorized into lift-base,
lift-persistence, lift-modules, lift-archetypes and lift-examples).
Issue: 127.
o Project build models are more enriched and streamlined. Issue: 128.
o Generalized JSON serialization

Have fun!
-Lift Web Framework team

[jlist9]

Congrats on the new release!

Just curious - what are the differences between Lift Actor and Akka Actor when
used locally?

[David Pollak]

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 10:53 AM, jlist9 <jli...@gmail.com> wrote:

Congrats on the new release!

Just curious - what are the differences between Lift Actor and Akka Actor when
used locally?

Akka actors have a whole monitor hierarchy and other goodies (Jonas can tell us about these).  Lift Actors have different exception handling and never stop.
 

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[harryh]

Huzzah! Thx for all the hard work on the release guys.

Any idea when the scala docs will show up on scala-tools.org?

-harryh

[harryh]

> Any idea when the scala docs will show up on scala-tools.org?

Oh nevermind. It appears with some of the packages moving around the
locations of the scaladocs changed as well.
Found them.

-harryh