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diff --git a/WebContent/release-notes.html b/WebContent/release-notes.html index 0f49e819b0..dad440dfae 100644 --- a/WebContent/release-notes.html +++ b/WebContent/release-notes.html @@ -38,8 +38,8 @@ <h2 id="tableofcontents">Release Notes for Vaadin Framework @version@</h2> <ul> <li><a href="#overview">Overview of Vaadin @version@ Release</a></li> - <li><a href="#changelog">Complete change log for Vaadin @version@</a></li> <li><a href="#enhancements">Enhancements in Vaadin @version-minor@</a></li> + <li><a href="#changelog">Complete change log for Vaadin @version@</a></li> <li><a href="#limitations">Limitations in @version-minor@</a></li> <li><a href="#vaadin">Vaadin Installation</a></li> <li><a href="#package">Package Contents</a></li> @@ -53,20 +53,59 @@ <h2 id="overview">Overview of Vaadin @version@ Release</h2> <p> - Vaadin @version@ is a maintenance release that includes a number of important bug - fixes, as listed in the <a href="#changelog">change log</a> below. You can also - view the <a + Vaadin @version@ is a feature release that includes a number of enhancements as + well as important bug fixes, as listed in the <a href="#changelog">change log</a> + below. You can also view the <a href="http://dev.vaadin.com/query?status=closed&resolution=fixed&milestone=Vaadin+@version@&order=priority">list of the closed issues</a> at the Vaadin developer's site. </p> + <h2 id="enhancements">Enhancements in Vaadin @version-minor@</h2> + + <p> + The @version-minor@ includes many major and minor enhancements. Below is a list of + the most notable changes: + </p> + + <ul> + <li>Server push based on Atmosphere</li> + <li>CSS injection through a <b>Styles</b> object from <tt>Page.getCurrent().getStyles()</tt></li> + <li>Enhanced Debug Window</li> + <li><b>Calendar</b> is now included in the core framework</li> + <li>The <b>VaadinServlet</b>/-<b>Portlet</b> and <b>-Service</b> have been refactored</li> + <li><b>DateField</b> can now have a range</li> + <li><b>Window</b> has Maximize/Restore controls</li> + <li>WAI-ARIA support for form fields, <b>Button</b>, and <b>Tree</b></li> + <li>The page can be reloaded programmatically with <tt>Page.reload()</tt></li> + <li><tt>Property.toString()</tt> no longer returns the property value!</li> + <li>Sass compiler now supports arithmetics</li> + <li>Sass compiler now supports <tt>@content</tt></li> + <li>Tooltip delays can be configured</li> + <li>Loading indicator delays can be configured</li> + <li>Layout components have a default alignment</li> + <li><b>DefaultFieldGroupFieldFactory</b> supports date fields</li> + + <li>Add-ons containing a theme should specify it with a <tt>Vaadin-Stylesheet</tt> + attribute in the manifest</li> + + <li>Native support for Internet Explorer 10</li> + <li>Many locking fixes</li> + </ul> + <p> - For a list of enhancements in the last feature release, see <a - href="#enhancements">Enhancements in Vaadin @version-minor@</a> and the <a - href="http://vaadin.com/download/release/@version-minor@/@version-minor@.0/release-notes.html">Release - Notes for Vaadin @version-minor@.0</a>. + For enchancements introduced in Vaadin 7, see the <a + href="http://vaadin.com/download/release/7.0/7.0.0/release-notes.html">Release + Notes for Vaadin 7.0.0</a>. </p> + <h3 id="limitations">Limitations</h3> + + <ul> + <li>It is currently not possible to specify <tt>font-size</tt> as <tt>em</tt> or + <tt>%</tt>, or layout component sizes with <tt>em</tt> (<a + href="http://dev.vaadin.com/ticket/10634">#10634</a>)</li> + </ul> + <h3 id="changelog">ChangeLog</h3> <p> @@ -83,283 +122,6 @@ list of the closed issues</a> can also be found at <tt>dev.vaadin.com</tt>. </p> - <h2 id="enhancements">Enhancements in Vaadin @version-minor@</h2> - - <p> - The @version-minor@ includes many major and minor enhancements and changes first - introduced in Vaadin @version-minor@.0. Below is a list of the most notable changes: - </p> - - <ul> - <li>UI replaces Application as the main entry point - <ul> - <li>Heartbeat to reliably detect closed UI</li> - <li>Supports multiple browser tabs by default</li> - <li>Browser and request details available in UI init</li> - <li>Direct access to request and session in UI init</li> - <li>Access detected browser details in UI init</li> - <li>Default UI class chosen based on a servlet parameter</li> - <li>Custom UIProvider allows providing different UIs based on request parameters</li> - <li>UI is by default reinitialized when the page is reloaded</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li>Redesigned layouts - <ul> - <li>Minimal or no layout calculations to maximize layout speed</li> - <li>Full control of layouts with CSS including borders and margins</li> - <li>Redesigned lighter DOM for vertical, horizontal and css layout</li> - <li>Client-side ComputedStyle API available</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li>Split to seven jars to allow deploying only what you need</li> - <li>Adding multiple components with varargs in addComponents and appropriate constructors</li> - <li>Support for mixing multiple themes on the same page</li> - - <li>RPC for communication between the server and the browser - <ul> - <li>Static typing allows compile time checking</li> - <li>Supports Java's primitive and boxed types, String, enums, arrays, List, Set, Map and Java beans</li> - <li>Supports references to external or self served resources and references to other components</li> - <li>Call from browser to server can be delayed to piggyback on the next XHR, optionally folding similar calls to only send the last value</li> - <li>Calls to disabled or invisible components are ignored for security reasons</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li>Server-client shared state - <ul> - <li>Java objects can be shared between client and server for easy component development</li> - <li>State is automatically mirrored from server to client</li> - <li>Support both public fields and bean properties</li> - <li>Supports the same types as with RPC</li> - <li>Only parts of the state that are modified are sent over the wire</li> - <li>Allow calculating state on the fly just before state is sent to client</li> - <li>Client-side can listen to shared state changes to simplify connectors</li> - <li>State class can be annotated to automatically delegate state changes to corresponding properties in widgets</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li>Google Web Toolkit included - <ul> - <li>A full copy of GWT is included in Vaadin Framework</li> - <li>Vaadin team maintains a branch of GWT to include bug fixes and new features independent of official GWT release schedules</li> - <li>All functionality of GWT is included to enable writing of client side UI:s, stateless applications, offline functionality and custom widgets</li> - <li>Included Elemental library gives direct access to all cutting edge browser features</li> - <li>Both browser plug-in based dev mode debugging as well as super dev mode are supported</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li>No more need to call requestRepaint() in components</li> - <li>High level view navigation - <ul> - <li>Support for URI fragment based view management</li> - <li>Support for registering both pre-initialized view instances as well as view classes</li> - <li>Programmatic navigation with navigateTo()</li> - <li>Supports saving bookmarks to views</li> - <li>Supports parameterized views</li> - <li>Views can block navigation</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li>Connectors - <ul> - <li>Connectors provide a flexible communication channel between client and server</li> - <li>Separating communication code from widgets promotes reusability</li> - <li>An explicit Connector hierarchy is maintained</li> - <li>Mapping between server-side and client-side defined in client-side code to avoid server-side classpath issues</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li>JavaScript Connectors - <ul> - <li>Implement connector logic using JavaScript instead of Java for easier integration with JavaScript libraries</li> - <li>Wrap around any existing JavaScript based widget to adapt it for use in Vaadin</li> - <li>No widgetset compilation needed</li> - <li>Support for shared state and RPC as well as JSON-based communication based on simple JavaScript functions</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li>ColorPicker component - <ul> - <li>Easy to use interface with clickable color gradients</li> - <li>RGB, HSV and swatches color modes</li> - <li>Color history</li> - <li>Color preview</li> - <li>CSS color code representation and handling</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li>Add listeners without method overloads - <ul> - <li>Write addClickListener() instead of generic addListener()</li> - <li>Supports code completion in IDE:s better</li> - <li>Enables using Java 8 Lambda</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li>Renewed Vaadin Maven Plugin including features from GWT Maven Plugin - <ul> - <li>New Maven architype eases creation of Vaadin 7 applications</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li>Renewed Eclipse Plugin adding Apache Ivy based dependency management</li> - <li>Page bootstrapping renewed - <ul> - <li>Simpler inclusion of Vaadin UIs to custom web pages</li> - <li>Add-ons and applications can dynamically modify bootstrap page HTML</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li>VaadinSession - <ul> - <li>Full control over session lifecycle</li> - <li>Abstract away from servlets and portlets</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li>VaadinService - <ul> - <li>Easily access deployment information and HTTP requests</li> - <li>Abstract away from servlets and portlets</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li>Component extension API - <ul> - <li>Allow adding functionality and customizations to any component</li> - <li>Modify DOM and hook event listeners</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li>JavaScript callbacks - <ul> - <li>Declare client-side JavaScript API from server</li> - <li>Eases integration with parts of the page not controlled with Vaadin</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li>Relative paths used for all requests - <ul> - <li>More flexible deployment</li> - <li>Adds support for Apache ProxyPass and other similar proxies</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li>HTML5 - <ul> - <li>Vaadin 7 uses HTML5 doctype</li> - <li>Use any parts of HTML5 in your application</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li>Page - <ul> - <li>Abstraction for one browser window</li> - <li>Run JavaScript</li> - <li>Listen to page resizes</li> - <li>Control navigation</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li>Loading custom JavaScript - <ul> - <li>Annotate server-side classes with @JavaScript to request loading of JavaScript files</li> - <li>Automated control of loading order and ensuring that files are loaded only once</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li>API cleanup - <ul> - <li>API deprecated in Vaadin 6 or before removed</li> - <li>Use enums instead of integer constants</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li>Embedded split up to different components for different purposes - <ul> - <li>Image for showing images</li> - <li>BrowserFrame for embedding web pages with iframes</li> - <li>Flash for embedding Flash content</li> - <li>Embedded now only intended for embedding using <object> - </ul> - </li> - <li>Support for Firefox 17 extended support release in addition to latest stable Firefox release</li> - <li>Sass Compiler - <ul> - <li>Allows modularization of themes for better reuse and easier maintenance</li> - <li>Support the most important features of SCSS</li> - <li>Pure Java implementation without Ruby dependency</li> - <li>Supports all of CSS</li> - <li>On the fly conversion of SCSS to CSS during development</li> - <li>Built in themes are now based on Sass</li> - <li>Can be used in client-side projects as well</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li>@StyleSheet for automatic injection of css files</li> - <li>ConnectorResource replaces ApplicationResource to reduce memory consumption</li> - <li>Hierarchical error handling</li> - <li>Open popups and start downloads in a way not stopped by popup blockers</li> - <li>ThreadLocal access to VaadinService, VaadinRequest, VaadinResponse, VaadinSession and the current UI instance</li> - <li>Component id replaces debug ids to allow wider use possibilities for identifying corresponding widget elements in DOM</li> - <li>Range retrieval for indexed containers to enable optimize performance</li> - <li>Native support for percent sizes to let the browser do the percent to pixel calculation speeds up rendering</li> - <li>Custom class loader - <ul> - <li>Allow specifying custom class loaders to better support Java EE, CDI and Spring</li> - <li>Supports both servlets and portlets</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li>Updated data model - <ul> - <li>Property getValue() uses generics to return the expected type</li> - <li>Two phase commit support for commit/rollback</li> - <li>BeanItem supports nested properties to allow flattening complex datatypes</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li>Bean Validation - Annotate beans with JSR-303 standard annotations to automatically create validators for the fields</li> - <li>Field group - <ul> - <li>Allow data binding of multiple fields together to item data source</li> - <li>Supports buffering</li> - <li>Supports two phase commit</li> - <li>Annotation based and field name based property mapping</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li>Explicit data model converters - <ul> - <li>All fields support explicit conversion from presentation format to data source format</li> - <li>Conversions are bidirectional</li> - <li>Allow defining a default converter for a specific type and override for specific fields</li> - <li>Converters can be set per Table column to customize column formatting</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li>Built-in default converters - <ul> - <li>automated conversions beween String, Boolean, Long, Date, Double, Float, Integer and Number</li> - <li>Built in converters support internationalization</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li>Custom field component for building new fields as composition of existing components</li> - <li>Simplified validation API - <ul> - <li>No need to implement isValid() in validators any more</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li>Unsupported browser detection with customizable information page</li> - <li>Vaadin 6 compatibility layer to ease migration from Vaadin 6</li> - <li>Explicit layouts for Window and Panel</li> - <ul> - <li>Window and Panel components now require setting layout explicitly</li> - <li>Distinction between Window or Panel and it's layout</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li>Layout manager - <ul> - <li>Allows building custom layout calculations for widgets when browser based layouts are not powerful enough</li> - <li>Optimizes number of reflows by batching layout calculations from multiple widgets together</li> - </ul> - </li> - </ul> - - <p> - There are many other enhancements. Most of them are described in more detail in - the <a href="https://vaadin.com/wiki/-/wiki/Main/Vaadin+7">mini-tutorials</a> in - the Vaadin Wiki. Also see the <a - href="https://vaadin.com/wiki/-/wiki/Main/Migrating+from+Vaadin+6+to+Vaadin+7">Vaadin - 6 to 7 Migration Guide</a>. See also the <a - href="http://vaadin.com/download/release/@version-minor@/@version-minor@.0/release-notes.html">Release - Notes for Vaadin @version-minor@.0</a>. - </p> - - <h3 id="limitations">Limitations</h3> - - <ul> - <li>It is currently not possible to specify <tt>font-size</tt> as <tt>em</tt> or - <tt>%</tt>, or layout component sizes with <tt>em</tt> (<a - href="http://dev.vaadin.com/ticket/10634">#10634</a>)</li> - </ul> - <h2 id="vaadin">Vaadin Installation</h2> <p> @@ -658,12 +420,12 @@ </p> <ul> - <li>Mozilla Firefox 18-19</li> + <li>Mozilla Firefox 18-20</li> <li>Mozilla Firefox 17 ESR</li> <li>Internet Explorer 8-10</li> <li>Safari 6</li> <li>Opera 12</li> - <li>Google Chrome 23-25</li> + <li>Google Chrome 23-26</li> </ul> <p> |