11 April 2013 - Struts 2.3.14 General Availability Release

The Apache Struts group is pleased to announce that Struts 2.3.14 is available as a "General Availability" release. The GA designation is our highest quality grade.

Apache Struts 2 is an elegant, extensible framework for creating enterprise-ready Java web applications. The framework is designed to streamline the full development cycle, from building, to deploying, to maintaining applications over time.

It's a mostly maintenance release but few important improvements were added as well:

• All the annotations related to validators were updated to match the implementing classes
• The JUnit plugin supports now the Convention plugin configuration (check StrutsJUnit4ConventionTestCaseTest)
• Logging support was improved and extended to allow use user custom implementation of LoggingFactory

Please check the Version Notes to see more details.

All developers are recommended to update existing Struts 2 applications to Struts 2.3.14.

Struts 2.3.14 is available in a full distribution or as separate library, source, example and documentation distributions, from the releases page. The release is also available through the central Maven repository under Group ID "org.apache.struts". The release notes are available online.

The 2.3.x series of the Apache Struts framework has a minimum requirement of the following specification versions: Servlet API 2.4, JSP API 2.0, and Java 5.

Should any issues arise with your use of any version of the Struts framework, please post your comments to the user list, and, if appropriate, file a tracking ticket.

5 April 2013 - Apache Struts 1 End-Of-Life (EOL) Announcement

The Apache Struts Project Team would like to inform you that the Struts 1.x web framework has reached its end of life and is no longer officially supported.

Please check the following readings to find more details.

• Apache Struts 1 EOL Announcement, including a detailed Q/A section
• Apache Struts 1 EOL Press Release

6 March 2013 - Struts 2.3.12 General Availability Release

The Apache Struts group is pleased to announce that Struts 2.3.12 is available as a "General Availability" release. The GA designation is our highest quality grade.

Apache Struts 2 is an elegant, extensible framework for creating enterprise-ready Java web applications. The framework is designed to streamline the full development cycle, from building, to deploying, to maintaining applications over time.

It's a mostly maintenance release but few important improvements were added as well:

• All validators were refactored and right now parameters can be set via OGNL also parameter parse was removed
• Tag's required attribute was renamed to requiredLabel to allow support of Html5 required attribute in the tags
• New Tiles 3 plugin was added to support Tiles 3 result type
• Support for JBoss 5 to work with the Convention Plugin was improved

Please check the Version Notes to see more details.

All developers are recommended to update existing Struts 2 applications to Struts 2.3.12.

Struts 2.3.12 is available in a full distribution or as separate library, source, example and documentation distributions, from the releases page. The release is also available through the central Maven repository under Group ID "org.apache.struts". The release notes are available online.

The 2.3.x series of the Apache Struts framework has a minimum requirement of the following specification versions: Servlet API 2.4, JSP API 2.0, and Java 5.

Should any issues arise with your use of any version of the Struts framework, please post your comments to the user list, and, if appropriate, file a tracking ticket.