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Apache Wicket 1.3 is released!

Starting the new year with a bang the Wicket Team has released Apache Wicket 1.3. With this release comes a lot of great successes, but most of all the team wanted to express their wishes to everyone for a happy new year. Download Apache Wicket 1.3

Apache Wicket is one of the fastest growing Java open source component based frameworks. With a focus on producing valid html and a logical separation between design and code. Within minutes you can start to enjoy throwing out tag soup, complex components and high maintenance overhead for a simple POJO + html data model.

• 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 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)

Get started today by checking out the following examples or follow the download link directly at the bottom.

• Editable Ajax tree table
• All examples
• Download Apache Wicket 1.3

Best wishes from the Wicket Team and a prosperous 2008!

Apache Wicket 1.3.0-rc2 is released!

This is the second release candidate for Apache Wicket we have prepared for your pleasure. The number of issues fixed are decreasing as we are approaching the final release.

Migrating from 1.2

If you are coming from Wicket 1.2, you really want to read our migration guide, found on the wiki.

Downloading the release

You can download the release from the official Apache mirror system, and you can find it here

The release notes

The release notes for this release are here

Apache Wicket 1.3.0-rc1 is released!

This release is the first in a series of release candidates until we feel confident to finalize Wicket 1.3. This is called a release candidate because we strive for API freeze. This means only bug fixes will be done on the 1.3 release from now on.

Migrating from 1.2

If you are coming from Wicket 1.2, you really want to read our migration guide, found on the wiki.

Downloading the release

You can download the release from the official Apache mirror system, and you can find it here

The release notes

The release notes for this release are here

Apache Wicket 1.3.0-beta4 is released!

^{Oct 11, 2007}

This release is the fourth in a series of beta releases until we feel confident to finalize Wicket 1.3. This is called a beta because we haven't fixed all the bugs we intend to for 1.3, and probably haven't found them all either (can you ever be sure?). However, we are confident that most major API changes are in and therefore want to give you access to a more stable platform than depending on trunk.

Migrating from 1.2

If you are coming from Wicket 1.2, you really want to read our migration guide, found on the wiki.

Downloading the release

You can download the release from the official Apache mirror system, and you can find it here

Read more on downloading Wicket here.