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 <section name="6.1 Release Notes - Version 1.2.9" href="release_notes">
      <subsection name="Introduction" href="Introduction">
          <p>
              The main motivation for releasing Struts 1.2.9 is to fix three
              security issues which have been identified:
          </p>
          <ul>
              <li><a href="http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=38374">Bug 38374</a> - 
                  Validation always skipped with Globals.CANCEL_KEY.</li>
              <li><a href="http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=38534">Bug 38534</a> - 
                  DOS attack, application hack.</li>
              <li><a href="http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=38749">Bug 38749</a> - 
                  XSS vulnerability in LookupDispatchAction.</li>
          </ul>
          <p>
              This section contains release notes for changes that have taken
              place since
              <a href="release-notes-1_2_8.html">Version 1.2.8</a>.
              To keep up-to-date on all changes to Struts, subscribe to the
              dev@ list.
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          <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_9">Version 1.2.9</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>

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                 <th>Modification</th><th>Revision</th><th>Bugzilla</th><th>Description</th>
             </tr></thead>
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                 <td align="center">2006-03-08</td>
                 <td align="center"><a href="http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi?rev=384234&amp;view=rev">384234</a>
                     (<a href="http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=384235&amp;view=rev">384235</a>)</td>
                 <td align="center"><a href="http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37817">37817</a></td>
                 <td>TagUtils doesn't create XHTML compliant URLs using forwards defined with redirect="true".</td>
             </tr>
             <tr>
                 <td align="center">2006-03-08</td>
                 <td align="center"><a href="http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi?rev=384090&amp;view=rev">384090</a>
                     (<a href="http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=384092&amp;view=rev">384092</a>)</td>
                 <td align="center"><a href="http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=38343">38343</a></td>
                 <td>Add EventDispatchAction and EventActionDispatcher.</td>
             </tr>
             <tr>
                 <td align="center">2006-03-07</td>
                 <td align="center"><a href="http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi?rev=383907&amp;view=rev">383907</a>
                     (<a href="http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=383908&amp;view=rev">383908</a>)</td>
                 <td align="center"><a href="http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37685">37685</a></td>
                 <td>Javascript tag does not work on Mozilla.</td>
             </tr>
             <tr>
                 <td align="center">2006-03-07</td>
                 <td align="center"><a href="http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi?rev=383718&amp;view=rev">383718</a>
                     (<a href="http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=383720&amp;view=rev">383720</a>)</td>
                 <td align="center"><a href="http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=38749">38749</a></td>
                 <td>XSS vulnerability in LookupDispatchAction.</td>
             </tr>
             <tr>
                 <td align="center">2006-02-15</td>
                 <td align="center"><a href="http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi?rev=379661&amp;view=rev">379661</a>
                     (<a href="http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=377929&amp;view=rev">377929</a>)</td>
                 <td align="center"><a href="http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=38534">38534</a></td>
                 <td>DOS attack, application hack.</td>
             </tr>
             <tr>
                 <td align="center">2006-02-14</td>
                 <td align="center"><a href="http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi?rev=377562&amp;view=rev">377562</a>
                     (<a href="http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=377805&amp;view=rev">377805</a>)</td>
                 <td align="center"><a href="http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=38374">38374</a></td>
                 <td>Validation always skipped with Globals.CANCEL_KEY.</td>
             </tr>
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                 <td align="center">2006-01-31</td>
                 <td align="center"><a href="http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi?rev=373798&amp;view=rev">373798</a>
                     (<a href="http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=373801&amp;view=rev">373801</a>)</td>
                 <td align="center"><a href="http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=38461">38461</a></td>
                 <td>struts-el html tag library errorKey not using documented default value.</td>
             </tr>
         </table>

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