已经好久好久好久好久没有velocity的消息了，今天不经意点一下发现居然有新版本了，虽然还只是beta，great！另外有一则消息是： Velocity项目已经荣升apache组织的一级项目，牛啊。

Velocity 1.5 Beta 2 Released
(November 24, 2006)

The Velocity developers are pleased to announce the second beta release of Velocity 1.5. You may download it here.

This beta version is one of the final steps before the long-awaited version 1.5. Since Beta 1 we have added a new InvalidReferenceEventHandler (to catch invalid references), the SecureUberspector (to prevent introspection on "dangerous objects"), and a StringResourceLoader. We've also fixed some critical bugs, including a subtle synchronization problem causing page generation to fail under heavy loads.

Some of the other new features since Velocity 1.4 include:

• floating point number arithmetic
• new event handlers for altering #include/#parse behavior
• literal map syntax

A complete list of changes is available at our issue tracker. You may also want to check out the draft release notes on the Wiki. Please report any additional bugs in the issue tracker, especially those that need to be fixed before our final release. (use 1.5 beta 2 as the version).

Velocity Approved as Top Level Project
(October 26, 2006)

The Board of the Apache Software Foundation has passed a resolution to upgrade Jakarta Velocity into an Apache Top Level Project (TLP), to be renamed Apache Velocity. We are excited of the new prominence of the Velocity project.

Please stay tuned for our new website at http://velocity.apache.org/. In the meantime, note that our new mailing lists are user@velocity.apache.org (subscribe at user-subscribe@velocity.apache.org) for general questions, and dev@velocity.apache.org (subscribe at dev-subscribe@velocity.apache.org) for development-related activity.