- tag i18n now accepts the key in the body as well as through the key attribute.
That's to allow dynamic keys, something like:

<mtw:i18n>
   <mtw:out value="something" />
</mtw:i18n>

- method LocaleManager.setDir to change the default location of the i18n files. (Default = "/i18n")

So to set it to be inside the WEB-INF directory, you can do: LocaleManager.setDir("WEB-INF/i18n");

- New I18nListData, now you can select what elements from i18n file you wanna show.

- The ListManager is now able to convert a java 5 enumeration into a ListData.

- Now you can add a filter specific to an action (ActionConfig) that will be executed BEFORE any global filter.

action("/Foo", FooAction.class)
    .filterFirst(new ValidatorFilter(VAL_ERROR))
    .on(SUCCESS, fwd("/cool.jsp")
    .on(ERROR, fws("/nocool.jsp");
    

- Improvement in the exceptions, in other words, now you will see the correct exception in your browser even when it happened through a reflection call 
(and not the InvocationTargetException that does not tell you anything!)

- Debug logs throughout the code, specially on DIFilter, so that you can turn on DEBUG and see how the filter is operating.

Debug.enable(true);

- Paginator Tag improvements: http://paginator.mentaframework.org/

- CollectionFilter to turn a list of html parameters into a collection.

Ex:

<input name="name1">
<input name="name2">
<input name="name3">
...
<input name="name10">

You can add:

filter(new CollectionFilter("name"));

and get a collection from the action input:

Collection coll = (Collection) input.getValue("name");

Note: They will be in order and if there is a gap in the sequence, the value of the gap will be null in the collection.


- MultiApplicationManager to load different application managers for the same application.

public class ApplicationManager extends MultiApplicationManager {
  
  	public void registerManagers() {
  		register(ModuleOneApplicationManager.class);
  		register(ModuleTwoApplicationManager.class);
  		register(ModuleThreeApplicationManager.class);
  	}
}


- New Ajaxtags inside the org.mentawai.ajaxtag package.


- LocaleManager.setDefaultDateMask("dd/MM/yyyy") and LocaleManager.setDateMask(Locale loc, String mask) so that you can set the default date mask 
and a date mask specific of that locale. Date mask will be used with a SimpleDateFormat to convert a date.


- ApplicationManager.setViewDir to set up a directory where all JSPs will reside.

Ex:

setViewDir("/WEB-INF/jsp");

so a new Forward("/hello.jsp") will go to:

/WEB-INF/jsp/hello.jsp


!!!! - Now inner actions can also be defined as Java inner classes (static or non-static) !!! Check the HelloInnerActions example below:

package examples.inneractions;

import java.util.*;

import org.mentawai.core.*;

public class HelloInnerActions extends BaseAction {
	
	public String execute() throws Exception {
		output.setValue("speak", "Hello there!");
		return SUCCESS;
	}
	
	public String sayBye() throws Exception {
		output.setValue("speak", "Bye for now...");
		return SUCCESS;
	}
	
	public class SayBye2 extends BaseAction {
		
		public String execute() throws Exception {
			
			output.setValue("speak", "Bye for now from SayBye2 inner action class!");
			
			return SUCCESS;
			
		}
		
	}
	
	public static class SayBye3 extends BaseAction {
		
		public String execute() throws Exception {
			
			output.setValue("speak", "Bye for now from SayBye3 static inner action class!");
			
			return SUCCESS;
			
		}
	}
}
	
		
- min and max for DateRule (validation)

- add support to JPA through the JpaFilter and JpaTrasaction

- new LocalizedListData (similar to SimpleListData but with support to internationalization)

- new DBListData if you want to load your lists from your database easily

- improvements in the ExceptionFilter + FAQ (http://forum.mentaframework.org/posts/list/1096.page)

- FormatterManager.setFixedDateFormatter(Formatter f) so you can fix a date formatter to be used for all dates throughout your application (mtw:out and mtw:inputDate)