Author: rombert
Date: Fri Oct 16 10:10:58 2015
New Revision: 1708946
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1708946&view=rev
Log:
SLING-5099 - Create 'New and Noteworthy' page for Sling 8
Added:
sling/site/trunk/content/news/
sling/site/trunk/content/news/sling-launchpad-8-released.mdtext
Modified:
sling/site/.project
Modified: sling/site/.project
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/sling/site/.project?rev=1708946&r1=1708945&r2=1708946&view=diff
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--- sling/site/.project (original)
+++ sling/site/.project Fri Oct 16 10:10:58 2015
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<projectDescription>
- <name>site</name>
+ <name>sling-site</name>
<comment></comment>
<projects>
</projects>
Added: sling/site/trunk/content/news/sling-launchpad-8-released.mdtext
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/sling/site/trunk/content/news/sling-launchpad-8-released.mdtext?rev=1708946&view=auto
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--- sling/site/trunk/content/news/sling-launchpad-8-released.mdtext (added)
+++ sling/site/trunk/content/news/sling-launchpad-8-released.mdtext Fri Oct 16
10:10:58 2015
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+Title: Apache Sling Launchpad 8 released
+
+Here are some of the more noteworthy things available in this release.
+
+Switched to Apache Jackrabbit Oak
+---
+
+The Sling launchpad has switched from Apache Jackrabbit 2.7.5 to Apache
Jackrabbit Oak 1.3.7 as a persistence engine. Apache Jackrabbit Oak is now
supported in Sling with two persistence modes: SegmentNodeStore ( file-based )
and DocumentNodeStore ( MongoDB-based ). See [the Oak
documentation](http://jackrabbit.apache.org/oak/docs/index.html) for more
details about the Oak persistence modes and [the Sling Launchpad
documentation](https://sling.apache.org/documentation/the-sling-engine/the-sling-launchpad.html#launchpad-app-and-launchpad-webapp)
for details about configuring the persistence mode.
+
+Provisioning model
+---
+
+Sling is now provisioned using a simple, text-based, model. See See [the Sling
Provisioning Model
documentation](http://sling.apache.org/documentation/development/slingstart.html)
for details.
+
+Sightly
+---
+
+Sightly is an HTML templating language, similar to JSP (Java Server Pages) and
ESP (ECMAScript Server Pages). The name âSightlyâ (meaning âpleasing to
the eyeâ) highlights its focus on keeping your markup beautiful, and thus
maintainable, once made dynamic.
+
+The cornerstones of Sightly are:
+
+- Secure by default: Sightly automatically filters and escapes all variables
being output to the presentation layer to prevent cross-site-scripting (XSS)
vulnerabilities
+- Supports separation of concerns: The expressiveness of the Sightly template
language is purposely limited, in order to make sure that a real programming
language is used to express the corresponding presentation logic
+- Built on HTML 5: A Sightly file is itself a valid HTML5 file. All
Sightly-specific syntax is expressed either within a data attribute, or within
HTML text.
+
+See [the Sightly HTML Templating Language
Specification](https://github.com/Adobe-Marketing-Cloud/sightly-spec/blob/master/SPECIFICATION.md)
for details.
+
+Versioning support in the Resource API
+---
+
+The Java Resource API and the HTTP API are now able to work with versioned
resources. See [SLING-848 - Support getting versioned resources by using uri
path parameters](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SLING-848) for more
details.
+
+Improved testing tools
+---
+
+The Sling testing tools have seen numerous additions since the last release,
including a family of Mock libraries known as the Sling Mocks and a Teleporter
JUnit module for running Sling tests in provisioned Sling instances. For more
details, see the documentation on [JUnit server-side testing support
bundles](https://sling.apache.org/documentation/bundles/org-apache-sling-junit-bundles.html)
and [Sling
Mocks](https://sling.apache.org/documentation/development/sling-mock.html) .
+
+Servlet API 3.0
+---
+
+Sling now uses and requires Servlet API 3.0. See [JSR 315: JavaTM Servlet 3.0
Specification](https://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=315) for details.
+
+Performance
+---
+
+Various performance and concurrency improvements were added to the Engine and
JCR Resource bundles.
+
+Dependency updates
+---
+
+Some of the notable dependency updates are:
+
+* Apache Felix has been upgraded to version 5.2.0
+* Apache Tika has been updated to version 1.10
+* Apache HttpClient 4.4 has been added
+
