[forge-dev] [announcement] Forge 2.5.0.Final (Coal) is released!

*JBoss Forge 2.5.0.Final* is now available! The Forge Team is proud to announce that JBoss Forge 2.5.0.Final is now available! This is the best release so far. What's new and noteworthy? * *Performance*: We have introduced more 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! * *Templates addon refactoring*: We refactored the templates addon with a cleaner and leaner API, check it out! * *Component Upgrades*: We've upgraded to Weld 2.0.5.Final, Aesh 0.53 and Roaster 2.3.0.Final. More stability and new features available out-of-the-box! And that's not all! Check out the issues below for more info. Please let us know if you encounter any issues, or have any feedback on usability, at http://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE. Contributors A huge thank you to the following contributors of this release. You are awesome: * Matej Briskar <https://github.com/mbriskar> o FORGE-1603: AbstractJavaSourceCommand should have an overwrite flag o FORGE-1755: NewFurnaceTestCommand should add test dependencies to POM file as 'test' scope, and avoid putting addon versions in the test case itself * Ivan St. Ivanov <https://github.com/ivannov> o Add a SetVersionCommand for the Java Compiled Projects o FORGE-1746 Make sure that scaffolded ManyToOne relationships without one part do not throw NullPointerException upon rendering * Robert Balent <https://github.com/rbalent> o FORGE-1450 -- Forge will correctly create enum attribute on entity. * Adam Wy?uda <https://github.com/adamwy> o Fix ProjectFactoryImpl.findProject() bug Download Forge * Try out Forge 2 in Eclipse via our Update Site <http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/builds/staging/jbosstools-forge_mast... * Use Forge 2 in your CLI / Terminal by downloading and installing the Final release <https://repository.jboss.org/nexus/service/local/artifact/maven/redirect?...;. You can learn how to run the downloaded installation <https://github.com/forge/core#get-started-with-the-command-line-tools> via our docs. Release Notes -- 23 issues were resolved since the last release. Check out all the new stuff! Bug * [FORGE-1738 <https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-1738>] -- addon-git-install fails to install projects from git if the project is not available in any configured maven repository * [FORGE-1745 <https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-1745>] -- Cannot handle Freemaker templates from a main * [FORGE-1746 <https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-1746>] -- NullPointerException when running scaffolded app in Wildfly * [FORGE-1748 <https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-1748>] -- Furnace CLAC Whitelist throws NPE if accessed after removing an addon * [FORGE-1754 <https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-1754>] -- Configuration subsets are not writable * [FORGE-1769 <https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-1769>] -- API version is not being set in the addon registry file when an addon is installed Component Upgrade * [FORGE-1759 <https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-1759>] -- Upgrade Furnace-CDI to Weld 2.0.5.Final * [FORGE-1765 <https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-1765>] -- Upgrade to Roaster 2.3.0.Final * [FORGE-1766 <https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-1766>] -- Upgrade to Aesh 0.53 Enhancement * [FORGE-1015 <https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-1015>] -- Java source/target versions should be configurable in JavaCompilerFacet * [FORGE-1729 <https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-1729>] -- Test harness should set the Configuration directory to use the test temp dir by default * [FORGE-1752 <https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-1752>] -- JavaEE dependencies from facets are not in the provided scope * [FORGE-1755 <https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-1755>] -- NewFurnaceTestCommand should add test dependencies to POM file as 'test' scope, and avoid putting addon versions in the test case itself * [FORGE-1767 <https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-1767>] -- Addon: new command improvements Feature Request * [FORGE-1603 <https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-1603>] -- AbstractJavaSourceCommand should have an overwrite flag * [FORGE-1753 <https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-1753>] -- Support InputTypes.TEXTAREA rendering in Eclipse * [FORGE-1756 <https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-1756>] -- Furnace.startAsync() should return a Future that can be used to block until the container has started. * [FORGE-1760 <https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-1760>] -- CDI Commands do not follow naming guidelines for GUI * [FORGE-1761 <https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-1761>] -- Allow @WithAttributes to configure the command line parameter name for a UICommand * [FORGE-1762 <https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-1762>] -- Generated REST resources reference a 'Customer' class * [FORGE-1763 <https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-1763>] -- Support setup of WebSockets dependencies * [FORGE-1768 <https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-1768>] -- Create "Addon: New Annotated UI Command" command Sub-task * [FORGE-1450 <https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-1450>] -- Cannot create an enum attribute on an Entity -- *George Gastaldi | Senior Software Engineer* JBoss Forge Team T: +55 11 3524-6169 M: +55 47 9711-1000 Red Hat Better technology. 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