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File Release Notes and Changelog

Release Name: 1.8 rc1

Notes:


Changes:
Since 1.8 beta 1:

* Added a new template caching policy to FileTemplateCache. Added ability to
  expire templates from a FileTemplateCache for certain caching policies.
  Updated the FreeMarkerServlet class to use the new caching policy.
* Templates can now be serialized, although in practise it is better to
  recompile a template from scratch where possible, due to the fact that a
  serialized template ends up much larger than its original text format.
* Many constant expressions are now evaluated at compile time rather than
  run time. This simplifies the expression tree, and avoids runtime overhead
  in re-evaluating constants each time a template is processed.
* Added a Perl 5 transformation model to the freemarker.ext.misc package.
  One or more Perl 5 substitutions can be passed in, and are evaluated in turn
  on a line-per-line basis on the data.
* Added method models to freemarker.ext.misc to allow testing of model
  capabilities from within a template. See IsScalar, IsNumber, IsHash, etc.