News from Oct 01, 2007

Right on schedule, we are releasing Trails 1.1! It feels it's been so long, even though it was less than six months ago we hit 1.0. I almost keep forgetting because I've been using 1.1 for months, but the single biggest difference between 1.0 and 1.1 is the modularized architecture. The documentation gives you an Overview of the new modules, but the important thing about it is that it allows Trails to be used in more heterogenous use cases, independent of whether your project is using Hibernate or Acegi. Definitely cool stuff. As usual, Alejandro has done a lot of the heavy lifting in the modularization and various other areas. One of the other more visible changes he made is the new default user interface and layout that's designed to be compatible with AppFuse so users of that project should feel right at home trying out our examples. One more super-exciting feature he worked on is our first draft of full-text search based on Trails-Compass integration that we have a whole section about in the User Guide. The Release history gives you a brief overview of the major features and a summary of the 30 bugs that were fixed in this release.

While the initial plan for 1.1 was to integrate with Tapestry 4.1.2, 4.1.3 contained important bug fixes for us and since it was released just recently, we decided to go with it for 1.1. Earlier unannounced and technically not part of the release, we've also quietly merged our Confluence-based site with a custom Maven site style, transparently blending Maven site reports with the Codehaus project wiki. For example and to see what other dependencies we've upgraded, check out the dependency report. Just as when I'm writing this, I can see Trails 1.1 is already available in repo1.maven.org. Enjoy and let us know how we can improve!