Announcing Lift 2.5-M1

[Diego Medina]

The Lift team proudly announces the availability of the Milestone 1 release of Lift version 2.5.

Lift is the most powerful, secure and mature web framework available
today. There are Seven Things that distinguish Lift from other web
frameworks.

Lift applications are:

• Secure -- Lift apps are resistant to common vulnerabilities including many of the OWASP Top 10
• Developer centric -- Lift apps are fast to build, concise and easy to maintain
• Scalable -- Lift apps are high performance and scale in the real world to handle insane traffic levels
• Interactive like a desktop app -- Lift's Comet support is unparalleled and Lift's ajax support is super-easy and very secure

Read an overview of how Lift achieves these important goals.

Lift open source software licensed under an Apache 2.0 license.

Lift 2.5 includes the following new features and enhancements:

• Improved jsonCall methods. Based on the powerful lift-json library
  
• Upgraded Squeryl to version 0.9.5
  
• Unified resource lookup (i18n), giving you the option to override Lift's core messages
• Lots of improvements to the Comet support
  
• LiftScreen now supports very flexible CSS styling
  
• Lift now uses specs2
  
• The Lift modules were moved to a new repository and organization, allowing external contributions
• Updated Lift templates
  
• jar files built against Scala 2.9.2

A complete list of changes that made it into 2.5-M1 can be found at:

Tickets on github
Please join the Lift Community and enjoy building awesome apps with Lift.


  The Lift Team