Play 1.4.2 -- Release notes

Play 1.4.2 has been released of the 1.4.x maintenance branch.

The changes in this release are listed in the Play 1.4.2 milestone on Lighthouse, including 27 resolved tickets.

What's new in Play 1.4.2

Fix vulnerabilty : Escape flash message in the secure module (login page)
#2008 Error while binding an EnumSet
#2011 Support [double semicolon[ escaping in evolution scripts
#2007 JPA classloader issues with precompiled app
#2014 Message not appear corretly in secure module
#1939 chore(lib): Update to groovy from 2.3.9 to 2.4.5
#1934 feat(controller): Support for non-static controller methods - they are easier to mock/unit-test
#2009 Field name detection in 'attachment'
#2017 Use StringBuilder instead of StringBuffer
#2016 default value of [XForwardedOverwriteDomainAndPort[ setting should be false
#1979 Improve performance of Play!
#2021 Optimize usage of StringBuilder
#2022 Add missing @OverRide annotations
#2020 Avoid multiple creation of new arrays/maps
#2015 i18n tag only restore the first % character
#2034 add hibernate-ehcache jar to be able to use ehcache as second level cache
#2026 Blob: missing methods implemented to support (2nd level) caching
#1947 Job::withinFilter Only Calls First PlayPlugin Filter It Finds. (Invoker Calls All Filters)
#1948 Invoker.Invocation::run executes action once per plugin
#2035 MakeWS.getString() returning same result on every call
#2019 Make method Cache.clear() null-safe
#2018 Class caches added
#2036 Force secure reverse routes config
#2039 Update some libraires