The Apache Struts group is pleased to announce that Struts 2.3.28 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. This release addresses three potential security vulnerabilities: S2-028 Possible XSS vulnerability in pages not using UTF-8 was fixed. S2-029 Forced double OGNL evaluation, when evaluated on raw user input in tag attributes, may lead to remote code execution. S2-030 I18NInterceptor narrows selected locale to those available in JVM to reduce possibility of another XSS vulnerability. All developers are strongly advised to perform this action. This release contains several changes and improvements just to mention few of them: - New Configurationprovider type was introduced - ServletContextAwareConfigurationProvider, see WW-4410 - Setting status code in HttpHeaders isn’t ignored anymore, see WW-4545 - Spring BeanPostProcessor(s) are called only once to constructed objects., see WW-4554 - OGNL was upgraded to version 3.0.13, see WW-4562 - Tiles 2 Plugin was upgraded to latest available Tiles 2 version, see WW-4568 - A dedicated assembly with minimal set of jars was defined, see WW-4570 - Struts2 Rest plugin properly handles JSESSIONID with DMI, see WW-4585 - Improved the Struts2 Rest plugin to honor Accept header, see WW-4588 - MessageStoreInterceptor was refactored to use PreResultListener to store messages, see WW-4605 - A new annotation was added to support configuring Tiles - @TilesDefinition, see WW-4606 and many other improvements, please check the version notes 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 6. Struts 2.3.28 is available in a full distribution, or as separate library, source, example and documentation distributions, from the releases page * http://struts.apache.org/download.cgi#struts2328 The release is also available from the central Maven repository under Group ID "org.apache.struts". The 2.3.28 version of the Apache Struts framework has a minimum requirement of the following specification versions: * Java Servlet 2.4 and JavaServer Pages (JSP) 2.0 * Java 2 Standard Platform Edition (J2SE) 6 The release notes are available online at: * http://struts.apache.org/docs/version-notes-2328.html 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.appropriate, file a tracking ticket: * https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WW Regards -- Łukasz + 48 606 323 122 http://www.lenart.org.pl/