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04 September 2003 - Jakarta Turbine 2.3 released

The Jakarta Turbine team is pleased to announce the release of the next version of the Turbine Web Application Framework:

Jakarta Turbine 2.3
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The CVS tag for this version is TURBINE_2_3
The branch tag for maintenance versions is TURBINE_2_3_BRANCH

You can find a list of changes here:
http://jakarta.apache.org/turbine/turbine-2.3/changes.html

Source and binary distributions for JDK 1.3.1 and JDK 1.4.2 are available from the apache mirror system or from
http://www.apache.org/dist/jakarta/turbine/

Some Notes

Turbine 2.3 no longer supports WebMacro, Freemarker or Castor
Turbine 2.3 is the first release to consequently use commons-logging and commons-configuration to remove the need for its own logging and resource services
Turbine 2.3 can load and use Avalon Components with the Avalon Service
The Templating engine at the core of Turbine has been completely overhauled and is now much more flexible and stable. However, this comes at the price that using "/" for template separators is no longer possible (This is a major change from our previous versions).
Turbine 2.3 uses maven as its primary build tool. Building with Eclipse is possible but not officially supported. Building with ant only is no longer supported.

The Turbine team really would like to thank all the contributors, users and members of the development and user list that helped with comments, patches and critisism to make this the best Turbine release yet. The announcement author would also like to thank the Torque team because I stole the layout of the announcement from you. ;-)

For more information on Jakarta Turbine, see the Turbine web site.