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• Check the feature list
• Read some Wicket buzz, some Wicket blogs or Planet Wicket
• Find out why you should use Wicket
• Check out some selected examples in detail or see them and many more in live action
• Take a look at our live component reference
• Go and download Wicket.
• See what extras are available

Wicket is released under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

Apache Wicket 1.4.

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9 Released

The Apache Wicket project is proud to announce the first ninth maintenance release of Apache Wicket 1.4. This releases brings over 15 improvements and bug fixes.

Download Apache Wicket 1.4

You can download the release here: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/wicket/1.4.19

Or use this in your Maven pom's to upgrade to the new version:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.apache.wicket</groupId>
  <artifactId>wicket</artifactId>
  <version>1.4.1<9</version>
</dependency>

Changes

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A complete list of changes can be found in our Jira instance here.

It is worth noting that WICKET-2846 will almost definitely be reverted in the next release because the community has shown a preference for this. So, it would be wise not to take advantage of the InheritableThreadLocal that was put into version 1.4.9.

We thank you for your patience and support.

The Wicket Team

Apache Wicket 1.4

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.8 Released

The Apache Wicket project is proud to announce the eighth maintenance release of Apache Wicket 1.4. Apache Wicket is an open source, component oriented Java web application framework. With overwhelming support from the user community, this release marks a departure from the past where we leave Java 1.4 behind and we require Java 5 as the minimum JDK version. By moving to Java 5 as the required minimum platform, we were able to utilize Java 5 idioms and increase the type safety of our APIs. Using Java generics you can now write typesafe web applications and create typesafe, self documenting, reusable custom componentsThis releases brings over 20 improvements and bug fixes.

Download Apache Wicket 1.4

You can download the release here: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/wicket/1.4.08

Or use this in your Maven pom's to upgrade to the new version:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.apache.wicket</groupId>
  <artifactId>wicket</artifactId>
  <version>1.4.0<8</version>
</dependency>

You will need to upgrade all modules (i.e. wicket, wicket-extensions) to their 1.4 counterparts. It is not possible to mix Wicket 1.3 libraries with 1.4 libraries due to API changes.

Most notable changes

From all the changes that went into this release, the following are the most important ones:

• Generified IModel interface and implementations increases type safety in your Wicket applications
• Component#getModel() and Component#setModel() have been renamed to getDefaultModel() and setDefaultModel() to better support generified models
• The Spring modules have been merged (wicket-spring-annot is now obsolete, all you need is wicket-spring)
• Many API's have been altered to better work with Java 5's idioms
• Wicket jars are now packaged with metadata that makes them OSGI bundles

Apart from these changes, the release is mostly compatible with Wicket 1.3 and upgrading shouldn't take too long. Early adopters report about a days work to upgrade medium to large applications to Wicket 1.4. Read the migration guide to learn more about the changes in our APIs. To learn more about all the improvements and new features that went into this release, check the solved issue list in our JIRA instance.

Learn more about this release

If you want to learn more about this release, read the full announcement.

Apache Wicket 1.3.7 marks end of life for Wicket 1.3!

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July 30, 2009

The Apache Wicket team is proud to present the release of Apache Wicket 1.3.7. This will be the last feature release for the 1.3.x branch. Going forward, only security fixes will be released in the 1.3.x branch - meaning that 1.3.7 may be the last release in this branch. All users are encouraged to upgrade to 1.4.0 as soon as possible. As work begins on 1.5 in the near future, we will be supporting 1.4.x and 1.5.x.

Eager people click here to download the distribution, others can read further:

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Changes

A complete list of changes can be found here.

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We thank you for your patience and support.

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