Ronin 0.8.5 released

[Gus Prevas]

Hi all,

I've released version 0.8.5 of the Ronin web framework.

Download here: https://github.com/kprevas/ronin/downloads

Documentation here: https://github.com/kprevas/ronin/wiki/

Tutorial here: https://github.com/kprevas/ronin/wiki/Tutorial

Note that Ronin 0.8.5 requires Aardvark version 0.3.1 or later.  If you're using an older version of Aardvark, download a new one here: https://github.com/vark/Aardvark/downloads

New features since 0.8.1:

AUTHENTICATION

- A dead-simple API for user authentication and authorization.  Initialize it with a single method call; easily adaptable to any credential storage mechanism.  (User Authentication)

REQUEST TYPES

- Easy file upload support.  (File Uploads)

- Annotation-based JSONP support.  (JSONP Support)

SECURITY

- An annotation for controller methods which restricts the HTTP method of an incoming request.

- Support for automatic protection against cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks. (CSRF Protection)

OTHER

- Integration with the SLF4J logging API, allowing you to drop in an alternate logging back-end like log4j.

- Automated dependency management with Ivy, meaning a much smaller initial download and support for easily adding your own third-party dependencies.

- Improved error reporting in development mode.

- A configuration point for custom URL mapping.

I'm currently soliciting feature requests for the next version.  If you're using Ronin and have a feature you'd like to see, or you're interested in Ronin but it's missing something you need, file a request at https://github.com/kprevas/ronin/issues.

For updates and discussion, join the mailing list at https://groups.google.com/group/ronin-gosu, or "watch" the repository at https://github.com/kprevas/ronin.

Enjoy,

-Gus