Play 1.4.2 — Release notes

Play 1.4.2 has been released of the 1.4.x maintenance branch.

The changes in this release are listed in the Play 1.4.2 milestone on Lighthouse, including 27 resolved tickets.

What’s new in Play 1.4.2

Fix vulnerabilty : Escape flash message in the secure module (login page)
#2008) Error while binding an EnumSet
#2011) Support “double semicolon” escaping in evolution scripts
#2007) JPA classloader issues with precompiled app
#2014) Message not appear corretly in secure module
#1939) chore(lib): Update to groovy from 2.3.9 to 2.4.5
#1934) feat(controller): Support for non-static controller methods – they are easier to mock/unit-test
#2009) Field name detection in ‘attachment’
#2017) Use StringBuilder instead of StringBuffer
#2016) default value of “XForwardedOverwriteDomainAndPort” setting should be false
#1979) Improve performance of Play!
#2021) Optimize usage of StringBuilder
#2022) Add missing @Override annotations
#2020) Avoid multiple creation of new arrays/maps
#2015) i18n tag only restore the first % character
#2034) add hibernate-ehcache jar to be able to use ehcache as second level cache
#2026) Blob: missing methods implemented to support (2nd level) caching
#1947) Job::withinFilter Only Calls First PlayPlugin Filter It Finds. (Invoker Calls All Filters)
#1948) Invoker.Invocation::run executes action once per plugin
#2035) MakeWS.getString() returning same result on every call
#2019) Make method Cache.clear() null-safe
#2018) Class caches added
#2036) Force secure reverse routes config
#2039) Update some libraires