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        <section name="6.1 Release Notes - Version 1.2.8"
                 href="release_notes">
            <subsection name="Introduction" href="Introduction">
                <p>
                    The main motivation for releasing Struts 1.2.8 is to fix a
                    <i>Cross Site Scripting</i>
                    (XSS) vulnerability which has
                    been identified by Hacktics.com. More details available on
                    the
                    <a href="http://wiki.apache.org/struts/StrutsXssVulnerability">
                        Wiki</a>
                    .
                </p>
                <p>
                    This section contains release notes for changes that have
                    taken
                    place since
                    <a href="release-notes-1_2_7.html">Version 1.2.7</a>
                    .
                    To keep up-to-date on all changes to Struts, subscribe to
                    the
                    dev@ list.
                </p>
                <p>
                    <b>Notes on upgrading</b>
                    are maintained in the
                    <a href="http://wiki.apache.org/struts/StrutsUpgrade">Wiki
                        Upgrade pages</a>
                    .
                    The wiki is a community maintained resource - please feel
                    free to add your
                    input so that everyone can benefit from the collective
                    experience.
                </p>
                <p>
                    For the version requirements of each library, see the
                    <a href="installation.html">Installation chapter</a>
                    .
                </p>


                <h3 id="STRUTS_1_2_8">Version 1.2.8</h3>

                <p>
                    After
                    <a href="http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/struts/core/tags/STRUTS_1_2_6/">
                        Version 1.2.6 was tagged</a>
                    the
                    <a href="http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/struts/core/branches/STRUTS_1_2_BRANCH/">
                        1.2 Branch</a>
                    was created and work started on the next version (
                    <i>1.3.x series</i>
                    ). Work has continued on
                    both versions and
                    <i>Revision</i>
                    numbers shown in brackets are where a change has been
                    ported
                    from the current development version into the
                    <i>1.2 Branch</i>
                    .
                </p>

                <table>
                    <thead>
                        <tr>
                            <th>Modification</th>
                            <th>Revision</th>
                            <th>Bugzilla</th>
                            <th>Description</th>
                        </tr>
                    </thead>
                    <tr>
                        <td align="center">2005-11-07</td>
                        <td align="center">
                            <a href="http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=331261&amp;view=rev">
                                331261</a>
                            (
                            <a href="http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi?rev=331265&amp;view=rev">
                                331265</a>
                            )
                        </td>
                        <td align="center">
                            <a href="http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37131">
                                37131</a>
                        </td>
                        <td>Escape newlines in Validator variables.</td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr>
                        <td align="center">2005-11-05</td>
                        <td align="center">
                            <a href="http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=191272&amp;view=rev">
                                191272</a>
                            and
                            <a href="http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=192949&amp;view=rev">
                                192949</a>
                            (
                            <a href="http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi?rev=331056&amp;view=rev">
                                331056</a>
                            )
                        </td>
                        <td align="center">
                            <a href="http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=35127">
                                35127</a>
                        </td>
                        <td>Changing rendering of the form name to use the
                            'id' attribute when in XHTML strict mode.</td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr>
                        <td align="center">2005-11-05</td>
                        <td align="center">
                            <a href="http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=331060&amp;view=rev">
                                331060</a>
                            (
                            <a href="http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi?rev=331055&amp;view=rev">
                                331055</a>
                            )
                        </td>
                        <td align="center">
                            <i>n/a</i>
                        </td>
                        <td>Fix for Struts XSS Vulnerability - remove uri from
                            error messages.</td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr>
                        <td align="center">2005-08-31</td>
                        <td align="center">
                            <a href="http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=265661&amp;view=rev">
                                265661</a>
                            (
                            <a href="http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi?rev=265658&amp;view=rev">
                                265658</a>
                            )
                        </td>
                        <td align="center">
                            <i>n/a</i>
                        </td>
                        <td>Remove I18nFactorySet copied code.</td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr>
                        <td align="center">2005-08-29</td>
                        <td align="center">
                            <a href="http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=264694&amp;view=rev">
                                264694</a>
                            (
                            <a href="http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi?rev=264684&amp;view=rev">
                                264684</a>
                            )
                        </td>
                        <td align="center">
                            <a href="http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32584">
                                32584</a>
                        </td>
                        <td>Provide config option to turn off MessageResources
                            escape processing.</td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr>
                        <td align="center">2005-08-29</td>
                        <td align="center">
                            <a href="http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=226545&amp;view=rev">
                                226545</a>
                            (
                            <a href="http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi?rev=264662&amp;view=rev">
                                264662</a>
                            )
                        </td>
                        <td align="center">
                            <a href="http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=35833">
                                35833</a>
                        </td>
                        <td>Fix bug where non-resource action messages only
                            work for the first message in the messages
                            list.</td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr>
                        <td align="center">2005-06-20</td>
                        <td align="center">
                            <a href="http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=191474&amp;view=rev">
                                191474</a>
                            (
                            <a href="http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi?rev=191475&amp;view=rev">
                                191475</a>
                            )
                        </td>
                        <td align="center">
                            <a href="http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=35421">
                                35421</a>
                        </td>
                        <td>Correct link on the acquiring page to the maven
                            generated nightly builds.</td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr>
                        <td align="center">2005-06-17</td>
                        <td align="center">
                            <a href="http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=190794&amp;view=rev">
                                190794</a>
                            (
                            <a href="http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi?rev=191170&amp;view=rev">
                                191170</a>
                            )
                        </td>
                        <td align="center">
                            <i>n/a</i>
                        </td>
                        <td>Update TagUtils to provide a more specific error
                            message where properties on a formbean are not
                            found.</td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr>
                        <td align="center">2005-06-16</td>
                        <td align="center">
                            <a href="http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi?rev=191011&amp;view=rev">
                                191011</a>
                        </td>
                        <td align="center">
                            <a href="http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34460">
                                34460</a>
                        </td>
                        <td>Update to the HTML tag library docs.</td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr>
                        <td align="center">2005-06-16</td>
                        <td align="center">
                            <a href="http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=191001&amp;view=rev">
                                191001</a>
                            (
                            <a href="http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi?rev=191002&amp;view=rev">
                                191002</a>
                            )
                        </td>
                        <td align="center">
                            <a href="http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32313">
                                32313</a>
                        </td>
                        <td>Update tag library configuration docs for Servlet
                            2.4.</td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr>
                        <td align="center">2005-06-15</td>
                        <td align="center">
                            <a href="http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=190634&amp;view=rev">
                                190634</a>
                            (
                            <a href="http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi?rev=190779&amp;view=rev">
                                190779</a>
                            )
                        </td>
                        <td align="center">
                            <a href="http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23864">
                                23864</a>
                        </td>
                        <td>Filter html sensitive characters in the &lt;html:radio&gt;
                            tag's value.</td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr>
                        <td align="center">2005-06-15</td>
                        <td align="center">
                            <a href="http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=190804&amp;view=rev">
                                190804</a>
                            (
                            <a href="http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi?rev=190807&amp;view=rev">
                                190807</a>
                            )
                        </td>
                        <td align="center">
                            <a href="http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3202">
                                3202</a>
                        </td>
                        <td>&lt;html:options&gt; tag logic updated to be more
                            efficient with use of iterators.</td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr>
                        <td align="center">2005-06-15</td>
                        <td align="center">
                            <a href="http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=190631&amp;view=rev">
                                190631</a>
                            (
                            <a href="http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi?rev=190780&amp;view=rev">
                                190780</a>
                            )
                        </td>
                        <td align="center">
                            <a href="http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27861">
                                27861</a>
                        </td>
                        <td>Add better error reporting to &lt;bean:define&gt;
                            tag.</td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr>
                        <td align="center">2005-06-04</td>
                        <td align="center">
                            <a href="http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=180002&amp;view=rev">
                                180002</a>
                            (
                            <a href="http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi?rev=180001&amp;view=rev">
                                180001</a>
                            )
                        </td>
                        <td align="center">
                            <i>n/a</i>
                        </td>
                        <td>Add warning to ActionMapping.findForward() method
                            if not found.</td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr>
                        <td align="center">2005-05-27</td>
                        <td align="center">
                            <a href="http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi?rev=178799&amp;view=rev">
                                178799</a>
                        </td>
                        <td align="center">
                            <a href="http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=35108">
                                35108</a>
                        </td>
                        <td>Add comment regarding jdbc20ext.jar and JDK to
                            build.properties.sample.</td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr>
                        <td align="center">2005-05-18</td>
                        <td align="center">
                            <a href="http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=170859&amp;view=rev">
                                170859</a>
                            (
                            <a href="http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi?rev=170858&amp;view=rev">
                                170858</a>
                            )
                        </td>
                        <td align="center">
                            <a href="http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34949">
                                34949</a>
                        </td>
                        <td>Add no-arg constructor to ModuleConfigImpl.</td>
                    </tr>
                </table>

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