Apache Wicket 7.4.0 released

1 New and noteworthy
2 Using this release
3 Upgrading from earlier versions
- 3.1 This Release

21 Jul 2016

The Apache Wicket PMC is proud to announce Apache Wicket 7.4.0!

Apache Wicket is an open source Java component oriented web application framework that powers thousands of web applications and web sites for governments, stores, universities, cities, banks, email providers, and more. You can find more about Apache Wicket at https://wicket.apache.org

This release marks another minor release of Wicket 7. We use semantic versioning for the development of Wicket, and as such no API breaks are present breaks are present in this release compared to 7.0.0.

New and noteworthy

improves stateless AJAX support by integrating the Wicket Stuff wicket-stateless module (WICKET-6183)
improves compatibility for playing videos on iOS devices due to missing media type in MediaComponent
upgrades provided JQuery to 1.12.4 and 2.2.4
improves compatibility with CGLIB when using wicket-jmx

Using this release

With Apache Maven update your dependency to (and don’t forget to update any other dependencies on Wicket projects to the same version):

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.wicket</groupId>
    <artifactId>wicket-core</artifactId>
    <version>7.4.0</version>
</dependency>

Or download and build the distribution yourself, or use our convenience binary package

Source: 7.4.0 source download
Binary: 7.4.0 binary download

Upgrading from earlier versions

If you upgrade from 7.y.z this release is a drop in replacement. If you come from a version prior to 7.0.0, please read our Wicket 7 migration guide found at

http://s.apache.org/wicket7migrate

Have fun!

— The Wicket team

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The signatures for the source release artefacts:

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Signature for apache-wicket-7.4.0.tar.gz:

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This Release

CHANGELOG for 7.4.0:

Bug

[WICKET-6154] - Performance bottleneck when using KeyInSessionSunJceCryptFactory
[WICKET-6155] - Newline in ModalWindow title
[WICKET-6157] - WicketTester and application servers are destroying app differently
[WICKET-6160] - Missing type for MediaComponent causing iOS devices not to be able to play videos
[WICKET-6162] - Reload leads to unexpected RuntimeException ‘Unable to find component with id’
[WICKET-6169] - NullPointerException accessing AbstractRequestLogger.getLiveSessions
[WICKET-6170] - Wrong requestmapper used for cache decorated resources
[WICKET-6172] - Inconsistent results from getTag[s]ByWicketId
[WICKET-6173] - WICKET-6172 makes TagTester.createTagsByAttribute stop working
[WICKET-6174] - Browser/Client info navigatorJavaEnabled property returns undefined
[WICKET-6175] - Aautocomplete suggestion window is not closing in IE11
[WICKET-6180] - JMX Initializer’s usage of CGLIB makes it impossible to upgrade to CGLIB 3.2.3
[WICKET-6185] - Border body not reachable for visitors
[WICKET-6187] - Enclosures rendered twice in derived component
[WICKET-6191] - AjaxTimerBehavior will stop after ajax update of component it is attached to
[WICKET-6196] - CheckingObjectOutputStream broken in Wicket 7
[WICKET-6198] - Unable to disable a MultiFileUploadField
[WICKET-6202] - Guide: 26.1 Page storing, section HttpSessionDataStore - example code is not correct
[WICKET-6204] - Copy only the provided attributes for Ajax link inclusion

Improvement

[WICKET-6153] - WicketTester’s MockHttpServletRequest doesn’t expose setLocale(aLocale) method
[WICKET-6178] - MetaDataHeaderItem # generateString() should return specials characters escaped like StringEscapeUtils.escapeHtml(s) does
[WICKET-6182] - Remove recreateBookmarkablePagesAfterExpiry check in Component#createRequestHandler
[WICKET-6183] - Improve stateless support for AJAX
[WICKET-6186] - Upgrade JQuery to 1.12.4/2.2.4

New Feature

[WICKET-6193] - NestedStringResourceLoader - replaces nested keys within property files

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