This page lists the tasks the Wicket team agreed to implement for Wicket 7.0.

Ideas for Wicket 7.0 list some more ideas but to add a task in the Roadmap it has to be discussed first in the dev mailing list. Ideas with attached patch in Jira ticket or Pull Request have a bigger chance to be included in the Roadmap.
the chance to get your idea in.

Java 7 as a minimum

Java 7 has nice support for generics, better annotations, and Java 6 is reaching its end of life pretty soon.

Assignee: mgrigorov
Status: Not started
Jira:

Generics for org.apache.wicket.Component

Using Java 7 will allow to use the "diamonds operator", i.e.

  Component<Entity> c = new SomeComponent<>("id", model);

Assignee: mgrigorov
Status: Not started
Jira:

Servlet 3 as a minimum

While we opted to not require servlet 3 for wicket 6, it has bitten us a couple of times solving issues in wicket 6. Servlet 3 has been out for ages, so we should move with the times.

Assignee: mgrigorov
Status: Not started
Jira:

Tickets in Jira with "Fix Version" = 7.0

PageParameters improvements

• read-only
• make it possible to differentiate between named indexed parameters and query string ones.
  See WICKET-4594, http://markmail.org/thread/cc7yjwshqugj4wic, WICKET-4441

Assignee: mgrigorov
Status: Not started

Minor API cleanups

• Rename renderHead(HtmlHeaderContainer) https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WICKET-4964
  Assignee: mgrigorov
  Status: Not started
  Jira: WICKET-4964