WebWork 2.2.6 Release Notes

Key Changes

The most import fixes is in the XWork bundled with this WebWork release that address a critical security issue where users could execute arbitarily any OGNL expression
(See http://forums.opensymphony.com/ann.jspa?annID=54 for more details).
The remaining changes are pretty trivial, including a few issues backported from Struts2, configurable start up and shut down listener and some trivial bug fixes.

See below for the complete list of changes.

Migration Notes

This 2.2.6 release, is basically a maintaintance release, in accordance to the security issue found in XWork.

It is fully backwords compatible with WebWork 2.2.5 and is a drop in replacement for it.

As usual, we'd like to thank both users and contributors for helping out, submitting patches, testing, providing feedback and participating in various discussion related to webwork

Changelog

For a complete list of all the changes, please refer to the complete changelog

OpenSymphony JIRA (5 issues)
T Key Summary Assignee Reporter Pr Status Res Created Updated Due
Bug WW-1457 WebWork should read theme.properties in the same way as it read templates tm_jee tm_jee Major ResolvedResolved FIXED Apr 29, 2007 Apr 29, 2007
Bug WW-1458 Support Freemarker template_exception_handler=rethrow tm_jee Martin Gilday Major ResolvedResolved FIXED May 05, 2007 May 06, 2007
Task WW-1462 Backport MessageStoreInterceptor from Struts2 tm_jee tm_jee Major ResolvedResolved FIXED Jun 02, 2007 Jun 02, 2007
Task WW-1464 Provides callback that gets informed when WebWork started up and shuts down tm_jee tm_jee Major ResolvedResolved FIXED Jun 11, 2007 Jun 11, 2007
Bug WW-1455 Use logger to print exception stack trace in UIBean class tm_jee Vlad Kravchenko Minor ResolvedResolved FIXED Apr 25, 2007 Jul 18, 2007