Lifecycle guide for Freemarker from Apache

All releases, patches, maintenance and support periods at a glance

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📅 Last update on 2026-03-06

What is Freemarker?

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FreeMarker is a "template engine"; a generic tool to generate text output (anything from HTML to auto generated source code) based on templates. It"s a Java package, a class library for Java programmers. It"s not an application for end-users in itself, but something that programmers can embed into their products. FreeMarker is designed to be practical for the generation of HTML Web pages, particularly by servlet-based applications following the MVC (Model View Controller) pattern.

The entire lifecycle of Freemarker

The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of Freemarker. You can see all releases with the latest patch version, the long-term support characteristics (orange flag in the green circle, the periods for version provision, maintenance and support.