Lift

Announcing Lift 2.4

January 12, 2012

The Lift team proudly announces the availability of the final release of Lift version 2.4.

Lift is a powerful, secure and most matured 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 centeric -- 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 unparalled 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.

Lift 2.4 includes the following new features and enhancements:

  • Lots of enhancements to JSON support
  • Record improvments
  • Squeryl/Record support for Crudify
  • Singificant enhancement to MongoDB support (including better support for reference records and binary fields)
  • Support for BsonDSL (BSON types to JsonDSL)
  • Significant enhancements to Mailer functionality
  • Significant enhancements to the CSS Selector transformers
  • Enhancements to Snippet resolution like sub-packages based resolution, Loc-based snippet resolution of Screen and Wizard, etc.
  • Significant improvement to REST support including stateless Async/Continuations on Jetty 7, Jetty 8 and Tomcat/Glassfish
  • Ability to get html5 compliant templates using data-lift attribute
  • Numerous localization modules

A complete list of changes for all the milestones leading up to 2.4 final:

  • http://www.assembla.com/spaces/liftweb/milestones/367456
  • http://www.assembla.com/spaces/liftweb/milestones/387120
  • http://www.assembla.com/spaces/liftweb/milestones/431058
  • http://www.assembla.com/spaces/liftweb/milestones/525891
  • http://www.assembla.com/spaces/liftweb/milestones/387136

Please join the Lift Community and enjoy building awesome apps with Lift.

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Simply Lift, by David Pollak is an open source book, available for free in both PDF and HTML versions at http://simply.liftweb.net/.

Exploring Lift, by Derek Chen-Becker, Tyler Weir, and Marius Danciu is an open source book, available for free in both PDF and HTML versions at http://exploring.liftweb.net/.

Lift In Action by Tim Perrett is available in print and eBook format.

Lift Cookbook A community question and answers book, free at cookbook.liftweb.net