The Tapestry Project released Tapestry 5.1 on May 6. Tapestry 5.1 is a new stable release for the Tapestry 5 code base; this was a significant upgrade of Tapestry 5 in terms of functionality and performance. This was also a chance to demonstrate Tapestry's new commitment to backwards compatibility, with most users seeing a very easy upgrade from 5.0 to 5.1.
Bug fixing has started for a forthcoming 5.2 release with some effort underway to ensure that Tapestry 5 can be deployed inside Google Application Engine. We are also considering a dot release for 5.1 to make it compatible for Google Application Engine. The newest commiters, Thiago and Robert, are also the most active (after Howard). In addition, a new initiative to fill the documentation gap for Tapestry is underway. This has long been identified as the primary limitation of Tapestry: there is no good, comprehensive tutorial and cookbook for new users (free or otherwise), just detailed reference documentation. Howard is committed to working on documentation before switching gears to 5.2 coding. Tapestry 3 and Tapestry 4 are unofficially dead; there is limited support available on the mailing lists, but none of the committers have bandwidth for maintaining or evolving the code. -- Howard M. Lewis Ship Creator of Apache Tapestry Director of Open Source Technology at Formos --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
