Performance improvements to Spawner™ spawn.js and $.spawn.js with new methods - spawn.element() and spawn.plus(); Chainable element generator - XNAT.element().div().p('Content'); Specific methods for individual elements - XNAT.element.tag('Content'); These need more testing before widespread usage.

Downgraded Jackson version to 2.6.5 to address compatibility issue with Spring 4.2.4.RELEASE (Jackson 2.7 is not supported until Spring 4.3).

Added session timeout back to web.xml, removed from session event publisher. Added back in missing Spring Security filter chain from move to initializer. Added missing Xalan dependency for security. Added @PreDestroy method for DICOM SCP manager.

Moved initializer and root config classes to initialization package to remove change of double-scanning. Fixed a few other items.

Fixed issue where initializing templatized DICOM file namer broke Turbine/Velocity initialization. Added initial delay to prearchive rebuild task.

XNAT-3863 - Develop support for Interface Themes, XNAT-3940 - Develop a themes subdirectories helper utility, XNAT-3941 - Store theme parameter in application context for all other pages to access

HTML updates for style changes; added menu where stored searches will eventually end up; consolidated includes for the footer into a single location; re-enabled left-hand tree code to use the JavaScript; removed references to jQuery UI since we're no longer using it.

Fixed URL processing *for real*; fixed 'Save Search' dialog rendering and validation; adjusted width of wrangled tabs; other styling tweaks; tiny change to randomID() output.

Added initialization SQL to bootstrap user info. Updated InstanceSettings.xml. Changed ${applicationRoot} to ${xnat.home} in log4j.properties. Removed my email address from services.properties. Added explicit references to 4.2.4.RELEASE versions of Spring dependencies.

XNAT-3910, XNAT-3918, XNAT-4030: MAJOR UI CHANGES! NEW topBar nav menu and user bar; many, many tweaks to styling; removed a bunch of <table> elements that were used for layout; tweaked CSS to account for that; updates to 3rd-party JavaScript libraries (but rolled back jQuery to 1.12.0).

Removed attempted fix at handling empty properties. Renamed plugin to xnat. Added mavenLocal() to repositories for plugins.

properties explicitly.

properties for deploy properties to use deploy rather than manager.