Release Notes - Jersey 2.17

Release date: 11-Mar-2015 Release Notes - jersey - Version 2.17

Bug

[JERSEY-1883] - @PostConstruct method called twice on @Singleton
[JERSEY-2281] - Fix mispelled Function name WadlResource#geExternalGrammar
[JERSEY-2531] - Allow JAX-RS application subclass initialisation by Jersey's component provider
[JERSEY-2603] - MvcFeature implementations TEMPLATES_BASE_PATH vs TEMPLATE_BASE_PATH
[JERSEY-2625] - Declarative linking with mixed JAXB/JPA entities using EclipseLink leads to ValidationException
[JERSEY-2663] - Why two temp file is created during file upload with jersey 2?
[JERSEY-2677] - Leak for RequestScoped injectables if async server model is used
[JERSEY-2680] - Exception in jersey path mapper bubbles up until top
[JERSEY-2698] - ApacheConnector doesn't respect per-request timeouts
[JERSEY-2724] - The proxy client throws UnsupportedOperationException when calling toString
[JERSEY-2776] - Regression -Multipart/form-data POST having a quoted boundary parameter in the Content-Type header fails.
[JERSEY-2789] - Astral Unicode characters included in uri parts are not properly encoded
[JERSEY-2790] - jaxrs-ri transitively pulls in sources jars, wastes space and increases startup time
[JERSEY-2792] - NPE in JerseyTest.tearDown
[JERSEY-2796] - Calling getClasses() on ResourceConfig breaks example in some cases
[JERSEY-2800] - Memory Leak when using @BeanParam within HK2
[JERSEY-2801] - Bug in org.glassfish.jersey.internal.util.ReflectionHelper
[JERSEY-2813] - The RxObservableInvoker swallows errors such as 404 NotFound

Improvement

[JERSEY-2490] - Declarative linking recurses into too many things
[JERSEY-2771] - Hard to customize freemarker configuration
[JERSEY-2814] - Imporve JDK container to take custom SSLContext

Task

[JERSEY-2791] - Add support for micro-benchmarks in Jersey (JMH based)

Highlights

CDI integration in EAR packaged WARs

From version 2.17 onwards, it's possible to use CDI with multiple JAX-RS web-applications packaged in EAR. All supported HK2/CDI injections now work as expected for JAX-RS application deployed in the mentioned fashion. One need to make sure that modules jersey-cdi1x and jersey-cdi1x-servlet are present in Servlet container (that supports EARs).

Pull Requests

[Pull 146] - A fix for issue JERSEY-2625
[Pull 145] - Restore JarFileScanner support for parents with a trailing slash
[Pull 143] - JERSEY-2776: Unquoting boundary string for multipart Content-Type headers
[Pull 141] - easy configuration for freemarker
[Pull 140] - JerseyTest.tearDown to be more careful
[Pull 131] - JERSEY-2724 Added support for toString in proxy client
[Pull 121] - ApacheConnector: Set timeouts on per-request basis
[Pull 99] - Proposal to fix: #JERSEY-2490