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| 19 | +<document> |
| 20 | + <properties> |
| 21 | + <title>Apache Commons JEXL 3.4 Release Notes</title> |
| 22 | + </properties> |
| 23 | + |
| 24 | + <body> |
| 25 | + <section name="Compatibility with previous release"> |
| 26 | + <p> |
| 27 | + Version 3.4 is source and binary compatible with 3.3. |
| 28 | + </p> |
| 29 | + </section> |
| 30 | + <section name="Compatibility with older releases (< 3.3, 2.x)"> |
| 31 | + <p> |
| 32 | + Since 3.3 release, the default setting for permissions that determine which packages, classes and methods are |
| 33 | + accessible to scripts has been reduced to a very narrow set. When migrating from previous version of JEXL, |
| 34 | + this may result in breaking your application behavior ; this breaking change requires remediation in your code. |
| 35 | + </p> |
| 36 | + <p> |
| 37 | + Despite the obvious inconvenience - our sincere apologies on the matter -, how much functional and semantic |
| 38 | + power is accessible through scripts has a real impact on your application security and stability ; |
| 39 | + that potential risk requires an informed review and conscious choice on your end. |
| 40 | + </p> |
| 41 | + <p> |
| 42 | + To mitigate the change, you can revert to the previous behavior with one line of code |
| 43 | + (see <a href="apidocs/org/apache/commons/jexl3/introspection/JexlPermissions.html">JexlPermissions</a>, |
| 44 | + <a href="apidocs/org/apache/commons/jexl3/JexlBuilder.html">JexlBuilder</a> |
| 45 | + and |
| 46 | + <a href="apidocs/org/apache/commons/jexl3/scripting/JexlScriptEngine.html">JexlScriptEngine</a> |
| 47 | + ) or use this |
| 48 | + opportunity to reduce exposure. Whether Files, URLs, networking, processes, class-loaders or reflection classes |
| 49 | + or whether loops or side effects are accessible are part of your choice to make. |
| 50 | + </p> |
| 51 | + </section> |
| 52 | + <section name="What's new in 3.4:"> |
| 53 | + <p> |
| 54 | + Features and permissions are easier to define through new methods. |
| 55 | + </p> |
| 56 | + <p> |
| 57 | + Some new syntaxes are introduced ; try/catch/finally (including with resources), |
| 58 | + an array-access safe navigation ((x?[y]), strict equality/inequality operators (===, !==), |
| 59 | + instanceof/!instanceof operators and more permissive structured literals. |
| 60 | + </p> |
| 61 | + </section> |
| 62 | + |
| 63 | + <section name="New Features in 3.4:"> |
| 64 | + <p> |
| 65 | + <table> |
| 66 | + <tr> |
| 67 | + <td><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JEXL-423>">JEXL-423:</a></td> |
| 68 | + <td>Add support for instanceof / !instanceof</td> |
| 69 | + </tr> |
| 70 | + <tr> |
| 71 | + <td><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JEXL-422>">JEXL-422:</a></td> |
| 72 | + <td>Add strict equality (===) and inequality (!==) operators</td> |
| 73 | + </tr> |
| 74 | + <tr> |
| 75 | + <td><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JEXL-421>">JEXL-421:</a></td> |
| 76 | + <td>ArrayBuilder: array type should reflect common class of its entries</td> |
| 77 | + </tr> |
| 78 | + <tr> |
| 79 | + <td><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JEXL-419>">JEXL-419:</a></td> |
| 80 | + <td>Add permission syntax to allow class/method/field</td> |
| 81 | + </tr> |
| 82 | + <tr> |
| 83 | + <td><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JEXL-418>">JEXL-418:</a></td> |
| 84 | + <td>Add try-catch-finally support</td> |
| 85 | + </tr> |
| 86 | + <tr> |
| 87 | + <td><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JEXL-408>">JEXL-408:</a></td> |
| 88 | + <td>Using JexlFeatures is tedious</td> |
| 89 | + </tr> |
| 90 | + <tr> |
| 91 | + <td><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JEXL-404>">JEXL-404:</a></td> |
| 92 | + <td>Support array-access safe navigation (x?[y])</td> |
| 93 | + </tr> |
| 94 | + <tr> |
| 95 | + <td><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JEXL-401>">JEXL-401:</a></td> |
| 96 | + <td>Captured variables should be read-only</td> |
| 97 | + </tr> |
| 98 | + <tr> |
| 99 | + <td><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JEXL-398>">JEXL-398:</a></td> |
| 100 | + <td>Allow 'trailing commas' or ellipsis while defining array, map and set literals</td> |
| 101 | + </tr> |
| 102 | + </table> |
| 103 | + </p> |
| 104 | + </section> |
| 105 | + |
| 106 | + <section name="Bugs Fixed in 3.4:"> |
| 107 | + <p> |
| 108 | + <table> |
| 109 | + <tr> |
| 110 | + <td><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JEXL-420>">JEXL-420:</a></td> |
| 111 | + <td>Error while comparing float and string value</td> |
| 112 | + </tr> |
| 113 | + <tr> |
| 114 | + <td><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JEXL-417>">JEXL-417:</a></td> |
| 115 | + <td>JexlArithmetic looses precision during arithmetic operator execution</td> |
| 116 | + </tr> |
| 117 | + <tr> |
| 118 | + <td><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JEXL-416>">JEXL-416:</a></td> |
| 119 | + <td>Null-valued pragma throws NPE in 3.3</td> |
| 120 | + </tr> |
| 121 | + <tr> |
| 122 | + <td><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JEXL-415>">JEXL-415:</a></td> |
| 123 | + <td>Incorrect template eval result</td> |
| 124 | + </tr> |
| 125 | + <tr> |
| 126 | + <td><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JEXL-414>">JEXL-414:</a></td> |
| 127 | + <td>SoftCache may suffer from race conditions</td> |
| 128 | + </tr> |
| 129 | + <tr> |
| 130 | + <td><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JEXL-412>">JEXL-412:</a></td> |
| 131 | + <td>Ambiguous syntax between namespace function call and map object definition.</td> |
| 132 | + </tr> |
| 133 | + <tr> |
| 134 | + <td><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JEXL-410>">JEXL-410:</a></td> |
| 135 | + <td>JexlFeatures: ctor does not enable all features</td> |
| 136 | + </tr> |
| 137 | + <tr> |
| 138 | + <td><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JEXL-409>">JEXL-409:</a></td> |
| 139 | + <td>Disable LEXICAL should disable LEXICAL_SHADE</td> |
| 140 | + </tr> |
| 141 | + <tr> |
| 142 | + <td><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JEXL-405>">JEXL-405:</a></td> |
| 143 | + <td>Recursive functions corrupt evaluation frame if reassigned</td> |
| 144 | + </tr> |
| 145 | + <tr> |
| 146 | + <td><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JEXL-403>">JEXL-403:</a></td> |
| 147 | + <td>Exception while evaluating template literal used in array assignment in loop.</td> |
| 148 | + </tr> |
| 149 | + <tr> |
| 150 | + <td><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JEXL-423>">JEXL-402:</a></td> |
| 151 | + <td>parse failed with empty return value.</td> |
| 152 | + </tr> |
| 153 | + </table> |
| 154 | + </p> |
| 155 | + </section> |
| 156 | + </body> |
| 157 | +</document> |
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