<html><body><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><strong style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 38.5px; line-height: 40px;">JBoss Forge 2.4.1.Final</strong><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 38.5px; line-height: 40px;"> is now available!</span></div><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><p style="margin: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; background-color: #ffffff;">The Forge Team is proud to announce that JBoss Forge 2.4.1.Final is now available! This is the best release so far.</p><h1 style="margin: 10px 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 40px; color: #333333; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font-size: 38.5px; background-color: #ffffff;">What’s new and noteworthy?</h1><ul style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 25px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; background-color: #ffffff;"><li><strong>Performance</strong>: We have introduced some major performance enhancements in the Furnace runtime, so the shell and other features should feel quite a bit snappier. Try it out and tell us your thoughts!</li><li><strong>Component Upgrades</strong>: We’ve upgraded to Arquillian 1.1.4.Final, Aesh 0.52 and Roaster 2.1.0.Final. More stability and new features available out-of-the-box</li><li><strong>Introducing Roaster (definitely)</strong>: Our first-gen Java parser has been replaced by <a href="https://github.com/forge/roaster" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Roaster</a>, which has been refactored and enhanced to support lots of new features such as Nested Types, Java Properties, and more.</li></ul><p style="margin: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; background-color: #ffffff;">And that’s not all! Check out the issues below for more info.</p><p style="margin: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; background-color: #ffffff;">Please let us know if you encounter any issues, or have any feedback on usability, at <a href="http://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE" target="_blank">http://issues.jboss.org/browse/<span class="caps">FORGE</span></a>.</p><h2 style="margin: 10px 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 40px; color: #333333; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font-size: 31.5px; background-color: #ffffff;">Download Forge</h2><ul style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 25px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; background-color: #ffffff;"><li>Try out Forge 2 in Eclipse via our <a href="http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/builds/staging/jbosstools-forge_master/all/repo/" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Update Site</a></li><li>Use Forge 2 in your <span class="caps">CLI</span> / Terminal by downloading and installing the <a href="https://repository.jboss.org/nexus/service/local/artifact/maven/redirect?r=releases&g=org.jboss.forge&a=forge-distribution&v=2.4.1.Final&e=zip&c=offline" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Final release</a>. You can <a href="https://github.com/forge/core#get-started-with-the-command-line-tools" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">learn how to run the downloaded installation</a> via our docs.</li></ul><h2 style="margin: 10px 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 40px; color: #333333; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font-size: 31.5px; background-color: #ffffff;">Release Notes – 32 issues were resolved since the last release. Check out all the new stuff!</h2><h2 style="margin: 10px 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 40px; color: #333333; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font-size: 31.5px; background-color: #ffffff;">Bug</h2><ul style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 25px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; background-color: #ffffff;"><li>[<a href="https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-1674" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="caps">FORGE</span>-1674</a>] – Forge should add <span class="caps">EJB</span> 3.1 dependency</li><li>[<a href="https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-1692" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="caps">FORGE</span>-1692</a>] – Freemarker includes present in the classpath are not resolved.</li><li>[<a href="https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-1701" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="caps">FORGE</span>-1701</a>] – <span class="caps">REST</span> resource generation fails when DTOs are generated</li><li>[<a href="https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-1706" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="caps">FORGE</span>-1706</a>] – Adding constraint with regular expression throws an Error</li><li>[<a href="https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-1714" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="caps">FORGE</span>-1714</a>] – JavaClass.getProperties() returns wrong number of items</li><li>[<a href="https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-1724" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="caps">FORGE</span>-1724</a>] – Errors in PlexusContainer inutilizes shell</li><li>[<a href="https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-1728" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="caps">FORGE</span>-1728</a>] – ClassCastException when a wizard is invoked in Eclipse plugin</li><li>[<a href="https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-1734" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="caps">FORGE</span>-1734</a>] – <span class="caps">CCE</span> when starting up the integrated Forge console in <span class="caps">JBT</span></li><li>[<a href="https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-1735" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="caps">FORGE</span>-1735</a>] – No commands are displayed sporadically</li></ul><h2 style="margin: 10px 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 40px; color: #333333; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font-size: 31.5px; background-color: #ffffff;">Component Upgrade</h2><ul style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 25px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; background-color: #ffffff;"><li>[<a href="https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-1584" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="caps">FORGE</span>-1584</a>] – Upgrade to Arquillian 1.1.4.Final</li><li>[<a href="https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-1736" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="caps">FORGE</span>-1736</a>] – Upgrade to Aesh 0.52</li><li>[<a href="https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-1737" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="caps">FORGE</span>-1737</a>] – Upgrade to Roaster 2.1.0.Final</li></ul><h2 style="margin: 10px 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 40px; color: #333333; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font-size: 31.5px; background-color: #ffffff;">Enhancement</h2><ul style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 25px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; background-color: #ffffff;"><li>[<a href="https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-1471" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="caps">FORGE</span>-1471</a>] – Selection of page template is both unclear, and too prominently displayed in Scaffold Setup in Eclipse</li><li>[<a href="https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-1682" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="caps">FORGE</span>-1682</a>] – Highlighter Scanners should be more extensible</li><li>[<a href="https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-1685" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="caps">FORGE</span>-1685</a>] – Move the utility classes from the scaffold-api project to a scaffold-spi project</li><li>[<a href="https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-1698" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="caps">FORGE</span>-1698</a>] – MavenJavaCompilerFacet should use user properties instead of declaring the compiler plugin</li><li>[<a href="https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-1715" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="caps">FORGE</span>-1715</a>] – Migrate Property used in Validation/constraint support in JavaEE to Roaster</li><li>[<a href="https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-1720" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="caps">FORGE</span>-1720</a>] – Property should extend AnnotationTarget</li><li>[<a href="https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-1721" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="caps">FORGE</span>-1721</a>] – Use Roaster in the JavaEE addon instead of java-parser</li></ul><h2 style="margin: 10px 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 40px; color: #333333; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font-size: 31.5px; background-color: #ffffff;">Feature Request</h2><ul style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 25px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; background-color: #ffffff;"><li>[<a href="https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-833" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="caps">FORGE</span>-833</a>] – java new-field improvements</li><li>[<a href="https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-1626" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="caps">FORGE</span>-1626</a>] – Install addon from git repository</li><li>[<a href="https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-1681" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="caps">FORGE</span>-1681</a>] – Extend the Highlighter for Properties files</li><li>[<a href="https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-1684" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="caps">FORGE</span>-1684</a>] – Port the MetawidgetInspectorFacade <span class="caps">API</span> from the Forge 1 scaffold-x <span class="caps">API</span></li><li>[<a href="https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-1695" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="caps">FORGE</span>-1695</a>] – Add highlighter for <span class="caps">SQL</span></li><li>[<a href="https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-1696" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="caps">FORGE</span>-1696</a>] – Add Highlighter for Groovy</li><li>[<a href="https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-1697" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="caps">FORGE</span>-1697</a>] – Add Highlighter for <span class="caps">YAML</span></li><li>[<a href="https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-1700" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="caps">FORGE</span>-1700</a>] – Create a ProjectType for a <span class="caps">POM</span> packaging type project</li><li>[<a href="https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-1702" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="caps">FORGE</span>-1702</a>] – Implement possibility to add CommandExecutionHandler to ShellHandle</li><li>[<a href="https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-1726" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="caps">FORGE</span>-1726</a>] – Remove java-parser in favor of Roaster</li><li>[<a href="https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-1732" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="caps">FORGE</span>-1732</a>] – Shell does not display execution progress through UIProgressMonitor</li></ul><h2 style="margin: 10px 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 40px; color: #333333; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font-size: 31.5px; background-color: #ffffff;">Quality Risk</h2><ul style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 25px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; background-color: #ffffff;"><li>[<a href="https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-1699" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="caps">FORGE</span>-1699</a>] – High <span class="caps">CPU</span> consumption on Windows and Linux</li></ul><h2 style="margin: 10px 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 40px; color: #333333; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font-size: 31.5px; background-color: #ffffff;">Task</h2><ul style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 25px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; background-color: #ffffff;"><li>[<a href="https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-1730" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="caps">FORGE</span>-1730</a>] – Move git addon to core</li></ul></div></div></div><br></div></body></html>