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blog_post: false
title: Scalate 1.4.0 Released
author: Hiram Chirino
author_url: http://hiramchirino.com/blog
created_at: 2011-02-10 12:06:40 -0000
layout: /WEB-INF/scalate/layouts/blog-post.jade
--- 

The [Scalate team](http://scalate.fusesource.org) is pleased to announce the
availability of Scalate 1.4.0

Scalate is a [Scala 2.8.1](http://www.scala-lang.org) based <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_engine_(web)">template
engine</a> which can be used stand alone, with servlets or web frameworks
like [JAXRS](http://scalate.fusesource.org/documentation/jog.html),
[Lift](http://scalate.fusesource.org/documentation/lift.html) or
[Play](http://github.com/pk11/play-scalate) or in integration frameworks
like [Apache Camel](http://camel.apache.org/scalate.html).

The following template languages are supported through the same common API:

* [Ssp](http://scalate.fusesource.org/documentation/ssp-reference.html#syntax)
  which is like a Scala version of [Velocity](http://velocity.apache.org/),
  JSP or Erb from Rails
* [Scaml](http://scalate.fusesource.org/documentation/scaml-reference.html)
  which is a Scala dialect of [Haml](http://haml-lang.com/) for very DRY
  markup along with the
  [Jade](http://scalate.fusesource.org/documentation/jade.html) syntax
* [Mustache](http://scalate.fusesource.org/documentation/mustache.html)
  which is a Scala dialect of [Mustache](http://mustache.github.com/) for
  logic-less templates which also work inside the browser using
  [mustache.js](http://github.com/janl/mustache.js)

All expressions inside
[Ssp](http://scalate.fusesource.org/documentation/ssp-reference.html#syntax),
[Scaml](http://scalate.fusesource.org/documentation/scaml-reference.html)
and [Jade](http://scalate.fusesource.org/documentation/jade.html) benefit
from the full power and expressiveness of Scala plus they are typesafe and
checked at edit/compile time to ensure you don't leave any mistakes in your
templates.


**Scalate 1.4.0 Highlights**

* Upgraded to Scala 2.8.1
* [Added](http://www.assembla.com/spaces/scalate/tickets/211) new SBT plugins for precompiling templates and [site generation](http://scalate.fusesource.org/documentation/siteGen.html)
* [Site generation](http://scalate.fusesource.org/documentation/siteGen.html) is [now](http://www.assembla.com/spaces/scalate/tickets/196) available in the [scalate command line tool and shell](http://scalate.fusesource.org/documentation/tool.html) and it also [now](http://www.assembla.com/spaces/scalate/tickets/195) supports a simpler directory layout.
* Added pygmentize, css, and cdata filters
* Added [Textile](http://textile.thresholdstate.com/) support and filters
* [Mustache](http://scalate.fusesource.org/documentation/mustache.html) can
  [now](http://www.assembla.com/spaces/scalate/tickets/122) be used for
  creating layouts and refer to parts of the generated template by
  [navigating the **html**
  section](http://scalate.fusesource.org/documentation/mustache.html#Layouts).
* [Mustache](http://scalate.fusesource.org/documentation/mustache.html) [automatically](http://www.assembla.com/spaces/scalate/tickets/198) [unwraps Option](http://www.assembla.com/spaces/scalate/tickets/197) types.
* Improved OSGi support

For more detail see the [Full Change
Log](http://www.assembla.com/spaces/scalate/milestones/315531-1-4)

[Feedback](http://scalate.fusesource.org/community.html) is always welcome!