New built-in: xhtml. See more here...

Bug fixed: Now you can use the values of parameters as the defaults of other parameters, for example [#macro section title label=title]. In earlier versions it was worked unreliably. There are no restriction regarding the order of parameters, like [#macro section label=title title] works too; the parameters will be evaluated in an order that the dependencies allow.

[1898300], [1818742], [1780882]: Reworked template caching mechanism for radically improved concurrent performance, with help from Azul Systems engineers. (Achieved 20x speedup with Struts2 webapps on a 128-CPU Azul device compared to 2.3.12.) Also, template loading (including parsing) errors are now cached, improving performance in applications that often try to get missing templates.

[1892546] Allow for custom TemplateLoader in FreemarkerServlet.

Bug fixed: [1725107] Using the FreeMarker JSP taglib support with Servlet 2.4 may generates XML validation warnings.

Bug fixed: [1939742] ConcurrentModificationException on accessing nonexistent SimpleHash entries in a loop

Bug fixed: [1902012] IteratorModel eats exception causes

Bug fixed: <#assign x></#assign> (empty nested content) has caused NullPointerException

Bug fixed: [1926150] CachedTemplate should be serializable