Date of release: 2002-11-04

Changes in FTL (FreeMarker Template Language)

• Multi-type variables that are both string and number or string and date are now output using their number or date value instead of the string value when used in the ${...} interpolation. This practically makes the string part of a string/number or a string/date variables useless.

• Bugfix: operator ``or'' (||) worked wrongly when its left operand was a composite expression (e.g. the second || in false || true || false; this was evaluated to false, but it should be true)

• Bugfix: Less-than sign inside comments confused the FTL parser (e.g. <#-- blah < blah -->); it commented out everything after the problematic comment.

• Bugfix: Comparing two numerical constants (e.g. 3 == 3) caused internal error in the FTL parser, and aborted template processing with error.

• Experimental date/time type support was removed, since it seems that this initial implementation was misguided. FreeMarker 2.2 will certainly support data/time.

Changes on the Java side

• Bugfix: Numbers wrapped with BEANS_WRAPPER was displayed with the toString() method of wrapped object. Now they are rendered according to the number_format setting, because multi-type variables that are both string and number are now output using their number value instead of the string value.

• Experimental date/time type support was removed, since it seems that this initial implementation was misguided. FreeMarker 2.2 will certainly support data/time.