Announcing Lift 2.5-M4

The Lift team proudly announces the availability of the Milestone 4 release of Lift version 2.5.

Lift is the most powerful, secure and mature web framework available today. There are Seven Things that distinguish Lift from other web frameworks.

Lift applications are:

• Secure -- Lift apps are resistant to common vulnerabilities including many of the OWASP Top 10
• Developer centric -- Lift apps are fast to build, concise and easy to maintain
• Scalable -- Lift apps are high performance and scale in the real world to handle insane traffic levels
• Interactive like a desktop app -- Lift's Comet support is unparalleled and Lift's ajax support is super-easy and very secure

Read an overview of how Lift achieves these important goals.

Lift open source software licensed under an Apache 2.0 license.

Highlights of this release

• Lift version 2.5-M4 has been built for Scala 2.10!
• Couchdb-record is now a separate module.
• Memoize the value of a resource lookup for the duration of the request.
• LiftResponses now preserve all the headers.
• Upgraded Squeryl to version 0.9.5-6.
• Upgraded mongo-java-driver to version 2.10.0.
• Reprocess failed ajax requests.

There are a lot more changes that went into 2.5-M4. A complete list of changes can be found at:

• Tickets on github

Breaking changes

               GroupId: net.liftmodules
            ArtifactId: lift-couchdb
               version: 2.5-M4-1.1 //Note that the 2.5-M4 means the version of Lift that the module was built for.
          

import net.liftweb.couchdb

import net.liftmodules.couchdb

override def optional_? = true

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