This maintenance release of 2.4 has two bug fixes:

* The cacheFlushed method is not being invoked on the CacheEntryEventListener
* CacheFilter max-age parameter MAX_AGE_NO_INIT not set properly

This release can be downloaded now.

Furthermore this release enhances the CacheFilter and allows a better integration with the Spring Framework and JMX Monitoring.

* Setting CacheFilter parameters runtime
* Lazy initialization in CacheFilter in order to ease spring integration
* Allow disabling cacheing for special http methods (e.g. POST/DELETE/PUT) in CacheFilter
* CacheFilter allow reentrance over different filter configurations

* Hibernate 3.2 integration support
* JMX Monitoring/Administration via Spring
* Improve oscache.properties loading
* Performance improvment for large disk persistence usage

This release can be downloaded now.

• The removeEntry method in the cache removes the entry from its groups now

and bug fixes:

• Method addGroupMappings leads to inconsistent memory cache if a persistent cache group exists
• Cache group is updated if entry is removed (duplicate)

This release can be downloaded now.

• Default initialization of the Cache-Control max-age

and bug fixes:

• Cache.flushAll(Date flushDate) won't throw NeedsRefreshException when flush date is not yet reached anymore
• No NoSuchElementException at Cache.putInCache() anymore

This release can be downloaded now.

• CRON expressions to expire content at specific dates and/or times
• Pluggable EntryRefreshPolicy
• Reduced memory consumption

Disk persistence:

• Faster disk persistence
• Avoid DiskPersistenceListener deadlocks if process has no rights to delete cache file

Further changes are:

• new JSP tag addgroups
• interface to get a list of the cache event listeners
• commons collection dependency removed
• Java 1.3 support dropped

This release can be downloaded now.

• Default initialization of the last modified header which reduces transaction overhead and server load
• Preserving more http headers, e.g. the expires header
• Special handling for fragments of a page
• Custom cache key generation by subclassing CacheFilter or by implementing a special interface
• Custom cache groups generation by subclassing CacheFilter or by implementing a special interface
• Support of GZip filters in the filter chain
• Avoids session creation for application scope pages
• Multiple matching cache filters won't dead-lock the response anymore
• The cache won't be serve the same response twice before the client begins to cache it anymore

Furthermore

• Continuous Integration and Dependency Management with Ivy
• Update to JGroups 2.2.8

This release can be downloaded now.

• Default initialization of the last modified header which reduces transaction overhead and server load
• Support of GZip filters in the filter chain
• Custom key generation by subclassing CacheFilter or by implementing a special interface
• Preserving more http headers, e.g. the expires header
• Special handling for fragments of a page
• Avoids session creation for application scope pages
• Multiple matching cache filters won't dead-lock the response anymore

The release candidate is available at the download area now.

Click here for OSCache's official homepage.