Wicket 6.0.0-beta1 released

26 Mar 2012

The Wicket team is proud to announce the first beta release of the Wicket 6.x series. This release brings over many improvements over the 1.5.x series.

Check the roadmap with a list of the major goals. And the migration guide with all major and some minor changes between 1.5.x and 6.x series.

The Jira changelog of all closed ticket at Jira

To use it in Maven:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.wicket</groupId>
    <artifactId>wicket-core</artifactId>
    <version>6.0.0-beta1</version>
</dependency>

If you don’t use dependencies management build tool then you can download the full distribution (including source).

There are no more planned API breaks but if you find something that can be made better now it the time to discuss it! We will try to avoid making any API changes in the Release Candidates that will follow this beta release.

Any feedback about the new features, their implementation and their documentation is very welcome!

The Wicket team!