This page lists ideas what can be improved for Wicket 8.0.

These are only ideas. Some of them may not be implemented though. There will be a separate Roadmap page that will have only the ideas on which we agreed.
To be approved an idea has to be discussed first in dev@ mailing list. A patch and/or Pull Request increases the chance to get your idea in.

Depend on Java 8

Make use of Java 8 features wherever it makes sense.

• java.util.Optional for AjaxFallback**
• new DateTime APIs for wicket-datetime

Better monitoring

Expose hooks for better monitoring.

For example an integration with something like https://dropwizard.github.io/metrics/3.1.0/

Better SEO for stateful pages

Think of a way of encoding the page id so that it doesn't "pollute" the url.

Some applications currently need to use NoVersionMapper (e.g. Apache OpenMeetings) to avoid it.