v2.3.0

• [new] Full compatibility with Java 8.
• [new] Interface LifecycleListener provides the ability to execute code upon application startup and shutdown.
• [new] Global facade (class Seed) for kernel creation and disposal.
• [new] Auto-configuration of Logback when it is in use and no logback.xml file exists.
• [new] Best-effort to detect console color output in various runtime environments.
• [new] Ability to print a custom banner upon startup by providing a banner.txt file in the default package.
• [chg] Update to official Guice 4.0 (not using Sisu-Guice anymore).
• [chg] Improve log traces on startup errors.
• [chg] Better default log format.
• [chg] Update parent pom to 2.4.0
• [chg] Update commons-configuration to 1.10.
• [chg] Update commons-cli to 1.3.1.
• [chg] Update shiro to 1.2.4.
• [chg] Update undertow to 1.3.19.Final.
• [chg] Update jodd to 3.6.6.
• [chg] Update metrics to 3.1.2.
• [chg] Update jersey1 to 1.19.1.
• [chg] Update jersey2 to 2.22.2.
• [fix] Correctly injects @Logging-annotated inherited loggers.

Web

• [new] Fully-injectable and interceptable servlets, filters and listeners.
• [new] Full compatibility with asynchronous servlets and filters.
• [new] Ability to programatically register servlets, filters and listeners.
• [chg] WebSocket support, previously in seed-web-websocket module is merged into seed-web-core module.
• [brk] Compatibility with Servlet 2.5 is dropped.
• [brk] Custom Servlet annotations (@WebServlet, @WebFilter and @WebListener) are dropped in favor or standard ones.

Rest

• [new] Full support for JAX-RS 2 asynchronous resources.
• [new] Detection of BeanParam classes in HAL scanner.
• [chg] Automatically prepends the servlet context path to generated HAL links.

EL

• [new] Add support for Expression Language 3

Testing

• [fix] Correctly take inheritance into account in expected IT exceptions
• [chg] Update Tomcat version to 8.0.32 for Arquillian tests.

v2.2.1

Rest

• [new] Support configuration of Jersey 2 features. Automatically enable multipart and JSP features if detected on the classpath.
• [new] Add multipart feature as a dependency of Jersey 2 module, enabling it by default.

v2.2.0

Core

• [fix] Fix the @Ignore annotation which was not working anymore in version 2.1.0.

Web

• [new] JAX-RS 2 support through Jersey 2.
• [new] Applications can launch in a Servlet 3+ environment without web.xml file.
• [brk] Remove the org.seedstack.seed.web.DelegateServletContextListener interface which can be replaced by native servlet listeners.

Security

• [chg] Disable storage of security sessions by default (can be re-enabled by setting org.seedstack.seed.security.sessions.enabled to true)
• [chg] Sets the default security session timeout to 15 minutes (instead of 30 minutes before) when sessions are enabled
• [new] Security session timeout can be changed with the org.seedstack.seed.security.sessions.timeout property (in seconds).
• [new] Add an anti-XSRF security filter (named xsrf) which can be used in Web security filter chains to prevent XSRF attacks.

v2.1.0

New cryptography module
Various modules have been extracted as add-ons

v2.0.0

Initial Open-Source release.