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authorLeif Åstrand <leif@vaadin.com>2015-03-24 10:36:28 +0200
committerLeif Åstrand <leif@vaadin.com>2015-03-24 10:36:28 +0200
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Update release notes for 7.5.0.alpha1
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<h2 id="overview">Overview of Vaadin @version@ Release</h2>
<p>
- Vaadin @version@ is a feature release that includes a
- number of new features and bug fixes, as listed in the <a
+ Vaadin @version@ is a
+<!-- feature release that includes -->
+ pre-release for evaluating
+ a number of new features and bug fixes, as listed in the <a
href="#enhancements">list of enhancements</a> and <a
href="#changelog">change log</a> below.
</p>
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enhancements. Below is a list of the most notable changes:</p>
<ul>
- <li>Grid is a new component for showing tabular data. It has been
- designed from the ground up to eventually replace the Table
- and TreeTable components.<br />
- The most notable Grid features in @version-minor@ are:
- <ul>
- <li>Support for multiple rows in the header and footer sections.</li>
- <li>Renderer concept for customizing how the data in a given column is represented in the browser.</li>
- <li>Support for frozen columns.</li>
- <li>Support for inline editing of one row at a time.</li>
- <li>Support for components in header and footer cells.</li>
- <li>Hardware accelerated, touch optimized scrolling.</li>
- </ul></li>
- <li>Declarative layout support for initializing a component hierarchy from an HTML file.</li>
- <li>Uses GWT 2.7 for improved compilation times when using Super Dev Mode.</li>
- <li>@Viewport annotation for declaratively defining a mobile viewport definition for a UI.</li>
- <li>Component captions, TabSheet/Accordion tab captions and Calendar event captions can be configured to be displayed as HTML.</li>
- <li>Selects use converters when presenting itemids.</li>
- <li>Improved performance when server response contains no visual changes (e.g. empty polling responses).</li>
- <li>Development time on-the-fly scss compilation cache may now be preserved when redeploying or restarting the server.</li>
- <li>Unified JSON library for using the same API in both server-side and client-side code.</li>
- <li>Range validators and converters for additional numerical types.</li>
- <li>Support for fine grained add/remove item events in in-memory containers.</li>
+ <li>Column reordering using drag and drop in Grid</li>
+ <li>Column hiding in Grid</li>
+ <li>Row details support in Grid</li>
</ul>
<p>
- For enhancements introduced in Vaadin 7.3, see the <a
- href="http://vaadin.com/download/release/7.3/7.3.0/release-notes.html">Release
- Notes for Vaadin 7.3.0</a>.
+ For enhancements introduced in Vaadin 7.4, see the <a
+ href="http://vaadin.com/download/release/7.4/7.4.0/release-notes.html">Release
+ Notes for Vaadin 7.4.0</a>.
</p>
<h3 id="incompatible">Incompatible or Behavior-altering Changes in @version-minor@</h3>
<ul>
- <li>
- <p>The org.json and com.google.gwt.json libraries have been replaced by elemental.json.</p>
- <p>JavascriptFunction.call parameter type has been changed to elemental.json.JsonArray, affecting JavaScript.addFunction, AbstractJavaScriptComponent.addFunction and AbstractJavaScriptExtension.addFunction</p>
- <p>Raw JSON values passed to AbstractJavaScriptComponent.callFunction and AbstractJavaScriptExtension.callFunction should be changed to use elemental.json types.</p>
- </li>
- <li>The semantics of empty and required for Field classes has been made more consistent. This mainly affects Checkbox which is now considered to be empty when it is not checked.</li>
- <li>The previously inconsistent behavior in HTML vs plain text rendering of Calendar event captions has been made consistent.</li>
- <li>Support for Opera 12 has been dropped. Newer versions based on the Blink rendering engine are still supported.</li>
- <li>Window's accessibility shortcut was moved to server-side. Now setCloseShortcut overrides the default value, while addCloseShortcut can be used to add more than one shortcut key for closing the window.
- The protected value closeShortcut in Window was removed.</li>
+
</ul>
<h3 id="knownissues">Known Issues and Limitations</h3>
<ul>
+ <li>The user interface for hiding and unhiding Grid columns is not yet finalized.</li>
<li>Drag'n'drop in a Table doesn't work on touch devices running
Internet Explorer (Windows Phone, Surface)
(<a href="http://dev.vaadin.com/ticket/13737">#13737</a>)