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For prior notes in this release series, see Version Notes 2.5.30

If you are a Maven user, you might want to get started using the Maven Archetype.

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.apache.struts</groupId>
  <artifactId>struts2-core</artifactId>
  <version>6.0.0-RC4<0</version>
</dependency>

You can also use Struts Archetype Catalog like below

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• [WW-4598] - async Actions
• [WW-4760] - Switch to Servlet API 2.5
• [WW-4874] - Asynchronous action method
• [WW-5005] - Struts2 convention plugin lacks Java 11 support
• [WW-5049] - Move Velocity support into a dedicated plugin
• [WW-5083] - Fetch Metadata support
• [WW-5084] - Content Security Policy support
• [WW-5085] - Add Cross-Origin Opener Policy and Cross-Origin Embedder Policy Support
• [WW-5101] - AbstractLocalizedTextProvider illegal reflective access operation has occurred[WW-5177] - Support testing with JUnit 5

Improvement

• [WW-685] - Generic error message - Type Conversion Error Handling
• [WW-2040] - Struts 1 vs. Struts 2 benchmarking application
• [WW-2411] - Add a maxlength attribute to the textarea tag
• [WW-2537] - Fix generics in all codebase
• [WW-3788] - Convert ServletActionContext to be more as ActionContext
• [WW-3877] - Remove altSyntax option
• [WW-4043] - Duplicated class TestUtils
• [WW-4069] - Upgrade DWR plugin to use the latest available version
• [WW-4348] - Remove access to static methods
• [WW-4713] - Drop "searchValueStack" attribute from tag <s:text/>
• [WW-4763] - Drop deprecated logging layer
• [WW-4779] - Remove profiling layer
• [WW-4789] - ActionContext should be immutable
• [WW-4792] - Removes deprecated XWork constants
• [WW-4796] - Rename Spring related flags to use the same pattern
• [WW-4799] - make DateConverter configurable
• [WW-4875] - Java configuration
• [WW-4889] - Implement REST content handlers using Apache Juneau
• [WW-4910] - Align OptGroup with Select
• [WW-4915] - Replace deprecated commons-lang3 classes
• [WW-4927] - Use immutable version of OGNL without access to #context
• [WW-4929] - Fallback i18n Locale
• [WW-4932] - Conversion fails when generic type is an interface
• [WW-4937] - Add SortedSet field support to JSON plugin
• [WW-4938] - ObjectFactory should use Container to instantiate actions and inject dependencies
• [WW-4952] - Upgrade to apache-master version 21
• [WW-4963] - Implement new Aware interfaces that are using withXxxx pattern instead of setters
• [WW-4972] - Switch to latest freemarker version when defining incompatible_improvements
• [WW-4995] - Enhancement for s:set tag to improve tag body whitespace control.
• [WW-4996] - Refactor DefaultTypeConverterCreator to use ObjectFactory#buildConverter
• [WW-5000] - Replace string literals with proper constants in @Inject
• [WW-5001] - Allow to define converters in "struts-conversion.properties" file
• [WW-5003] - Use StrutsException instead of XWorkException
• [WW-5012] - Make a public state check the first acceptance check in SecurityMemberAccess
• [WW-5017] - Drop @Validation annotation as not needed
• [WW-5018] - Add maven enforce plugin to control certain environmental constraints
• [WW-5023] - Upgrade SLF4J to latest 1.7.x version
• [WW-5034] - Minor enhancement/fix to AbstractLocalizedTextProvider
• [WW-5035] - Provide mechanism to clear OgnlUtil caches
• [WW-5036] - update JFreeChart plugin for compatibility with JFreeChart 1.5
• [WW-5052] - Use TypeConversionException instead of StrutsException
• [WW-5056] - Standard Accepted Patterns in DefaultAcceptedPatternsChecker
• [WW-5057] - Cleanup and/or improvements to Showcase Applications
• [WW-5062] - Use downloads.a.o instead of archive
• [WW-5063] - Use null check of passed in invocation in all the results
• [WW-5064] - Move XWork Spring support into struts2-spring-plugin
• [WW-5069] - Improve build behaviour on JDK9+
• [WW-5070] - JSONResult default root object should be set explicitly, rather than from result of ValueStack.peek()
• [WW-5073] - Use TextParser in AbstractMatcher
• [WW-5078] - Remove support for <xwork> DTD
• [WW-5080] - Allow write directly to a response - define a new result
• [WW-5099] - Upgrade JFreeChart plugin to use version 1.5.1 of JFreeChart
• [WW-5112] - Add ability (control flag) for TextProviders to prioritize reads from the default resource bundlest.
• [WW-5113] - Drop deprecated constant "struts.xworkTextProvider"
• [WW-5114] - Drop deprecated constant "struts.localeProvider"
• [WW-5115] - Reduce logging for DMI excluded parameters
• [WW-5126] - inconsistancy between Model Driven and Model Driven Interceptor documentations
• [WW-5136] - Make class attribute deprecated
• [WW-5152] - Make OVal plugin deprecated
• [WW-5153] - Make Portlet, Portlet Mocks and Portlet Tiles plugins deprecated
• [WW-5154] - Make GXP plugin deprecated
• [WW-5155] - Make OSGi plugin deprecated
• [WW-5156] - Make Plexus plugin deprecated
• [WW-5157] - Make Sitemesh plugin deprecated
• [WW-5164] - Remove deprecated ConversionDescription class
• [WW-5168] - Fix missing submitUnchecked and broken disabled attributes in Javatemplates checkbox tag
• [WW-5175] - Add basic LocalDateTime support
• [WW-5179] - Set 'struts.ognl.expressionMaxLength' to 256 by default
• [WW-5181] - Stop supporting accessing static methods via OGNL expressions
• [WW-5182] - Upgrade to Servlet API 3.1

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