Both the naming changes you cited are actually changes for the upcoming Version 0.7. The documentation isn't up-to-date yet (and is actually the main thing holding back the 0.7 release according to the mailing list).
The current release notes can be found in the master branch.
- Upgraded to Java 7.
- Moved to the
io.dropwizard
group ID and namespace. - Extracted out a number of reusable libraries:
dropwizard-configuration
,dropwizard-jackson
,dropwizard-jersey
,dropwizard-jetty
,dropwizard-lifecycle
,dropwizard-logging
,dropwizard-servlets
,dropwizard-util
,dropwizard-validation
. - Extracted out various elements of
Environment
to separate classes:JerseyEnvironment
,LifecycleEnvironment
, etc. - Extracted out
dropwizard-views-freemarker
anddropwizard-views-mustache
.dropwizard-views
just provides infrastructure now. - Renamed
Service
toApplication
. - Added
dropwizard-forms
, which provides support for multipart MIME entities. - Added
dropwizard-spdy
. - Added
AppenderFactory
, allowing for arbitrary logging appenders for application and request logs. - Added
ConnectorFactory
, allowing for arbitrary Jetty connectors. - Added
ServerFactory
, with multi- and single-connector implementations. - Added
ReporterFactory
, for metrics reporters, with Graphite and Ganglia implementations. - Added
ConfigurationSourceProvider
to allow loading configuration files from sources other than the filesystem. - Added setuid support. Configure the user/group to run as and soft/hard open file limits in the
ServerFactory
. To bind to privileged ports (e.g. 80), enablestartAsRoot
and setuser
andgroup
, then start your application as the root user. - Added builders for managed executors.
- Added a default
check
command, which loads and validates the service configuration. - Added support for the Jetty HTTP client to
dropwizard-client
. - Added Jackson Afterburner support.
- Added support for
deflate
-encoded requests and responses. - Added support for HTTP Sessions. Add the annotated parameter to your resource method:
@Session HttpSession session
to have the session context injected. - Added support for a "flash" message to be propagated across requests. Add the annotated parameter
to your resource method:
@Session Flash message
to have any existing flash message injected. - Added support for deserializing Java
enums
with fuzzy matching rules (i.e., whitespace stripping,-
/_
equivalence, case insensitivity, etc.). - Added
HibernateBundle#configure(Configuration)
for customization of Hibernate configuration. - Added support for Joda Time
DateTime
arguments and results when using JDBI. - Added configuration option to include Exception stack-traces when logging to syslog. Stack traces are now excluded by default.
- Added the application name and PID (if detectable) to the beginning of syslog messages, as is the convention.
- Added
--migrations-file
command-line option tomigrate
command to supply the migrations file explicitly. - Validation errors are now returned as
application/json
responses. - Simplified
AsyncRequestLog
; now standardized on Jetty 9 NCSA format. - Renamed
DatabaseConfiguration
toDataSourceFactory
, andConfigurationStrategy
toDatabaseConfiguration
. - Changed logging to be asynchronous. Messages are now buffered and batched in-memory before being delivered to the configured appender(s).
- Changed handling of runtime configuration errors. Will no longer display an Exception stack-trace and will present a more useful description of the problem, including suggestions when appropriate.
- Changed error handling to depend more heavily on Jersey exception mapping.
- Changed
dropwizard-db
to usetomcat-jdbc
instead oftomcat-dbcp
. - Changed default formatting when logging nested Exceptions to display the root-cause first.
- Replaced
ResourceTest
withResourceTestRule
, a JUnitTestRule
. - Dropped Scala support.
- Dropped
ManagedSessionFactory
. - Dropped
ObjectMapperFactory
; useObjectMapper
instead. - Dropped
Validator
; usejavax.validation.Validator
instead. - Fixed a shutdown bug in
dropwizard-migrations
. - Fixed formatting of "Caused by" lines not being prefixed when logging nested Exceptions.
- Fixed not all available Jersey endpoints were being logged at startup.
- Upgraded to argparse4j 0.4.1.
- Upgraded to Guava 15.
- Upgraded to Hibernate Validator 5.0.1.
- Upgraded to Jackson 2.2.3.
- Upgraded to JDBI 2.50.
- Upgraded to Jetty 9.0.5.
- Upgraded to Liquibase 3.0.4.
- Upgraded to Logback 1.0.13.
- Upgraded to Metrics 3.0.1.
- Upgraded to Mustache 0.8.13.
- Upgraded to SLF4J 1.7.5.