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Below you will find the news items that have been published on the front page of our web site.

Apache Wicket 1.3.1 is released!

Feb 5, 2007

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The Apache Wicket team is proud to announce the availability of the first maintenance release: Apache Wicket 1.3.1. A lot of bugs have been squashed and several improvements implemented. The most notable improvement is the addition of out-of-the-box, transparent clustering support (WICKET-1272).

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• WICKET-1020 - expose configuration of CompoundValidator, NumberValidator
• WICKET-1193 - i18n: Translation of resource files in Korean
• WICKET-1252 - Default start week day based on locale
• WICKET-1272 - Better clustering support for DiskPageStore
• WICKET-1283 - Allow to query component markup id without creating one
• WICKET-1284 - Report last focused element id on ajax request
• WICKET-1293 - Improve SelectOptions: allow customization of created SelectOption objects
• WICKET-1299 - HybridUrlCodingStrategy should throw a PageExpiredException if a RequestListenerInterface is targeted on a non-existent page-id/version
• WICKET-1309 - Properties files translation (_es)
• WICKET-1313 - Created Norwegian translation of Application.properties
• WICKET-1318 - NavigatorLabel should be localizable

Apache Wicket 1.3 is released!

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• last JDK-1.4 release (next release will be Java 5 based)
• first Apache release: renamed packages to org.apache.wicket
• simplified models API
• simplified converter API
• simplified validator API
• now works with zero-config behind a proxy server using relative URLs
• added Google Guice support
• use your Wicket pages directly in a portal without changing a line of code (JSR-168/JSR-286 support)
• switched logging API from commons-logging to slf4j
• use velocity templates as panels in your pages with wicket-velocity
• YUI-calendar and Joda time based date picker (wicket-datetime)
• improved Ajax support
• improved, more robust header contributions
• filters duplicate javascript references
• supports onload/ondomready events
• javascript resources are gzipped by default
• stateless pages and components for those parts of your application that needs to scale to extremely large numbers of users
• improved AjaxTree/AjaxTreeTable
• hybrid URL encoding makes search engines and your users happy
• nested form components—create components?create panels that contain forms and use them anywhere without worrying about the nesting of form tags
• minimized session use by storing component hierarchy in file system (DiskPageStore)

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Best wishes from the Wicket Team and a prosperous 2008!

Apache Wicket 1.3.0-rc2 is released!

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