All security patches from prior versions were merged into this version
XWork source was merged into Struts Core source, it means that there be no more xwork artifact nor dedicated jar
Spring dependency for tests and spring plugin was upgraded to version 4.1.6, see WW-4510.
Struts2 internal logging api was marked as deprecated and was replaced with new Log4j2 api as logging layer, see WW-4504.
Struts2 is now build with JDK7, see WW-4503.
New plugin to support bean validation is now part of the distribution, see WW-4505.
Deprecated plugins are now removed from the distribution and are not longer supported anymore.
Dojo Plugin
Codebehind Plugin
JSF Plugin
Struts1 Plugin
New security option was added - Strict Method Invocation (also known as Strict DMI), see WW-4540
Added support for latest stable AngularJS in Maven archetype, see WW-4522
Dropped support for id and name - replaced with var, see WW-2069
Dedicated archive with a minimal set of dependencies was introduced, see WW-4570
It is possible to use multiple names when defining a result, see WW-4590
Rest plugin honors Accept header, see WW-4588
New result 'JSONActionRedirectResult' in json-plugin was defined, see WW-4591
Tiles plugin was upgrade to the latest Tiles 3 and tiles3-plugin was dropped, see WW-4584
JasperReports plugins was upgraded to JasperReport 6.0, see WW-4381
OGNL was upgraded to version 3.1.4 and it breaks access to properties as it follows Java Bean Specification, see WW-4207 and WW-3909
Annotations to configure Tiles, see WW-4594 and Tiles Plugin
