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.
The roadmap with the major goals can be found at https://cwiki.apache.org/WICKET/wicket-60-roadmap.html. The migration guide with all major and some minor changes can be found at https://cwiki.apache.org/WICKET/migration-to-wicket-60.html. Git tag: release/wicket-6.0.0-beta1 Changelog: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310561&version=12315431 Many of the listed tickets are fixed both in 1.5.x and 6.0.x. Maven: <dependency> <groupId>org.apache.wicket</groupId> <artifactId>wicket-core</artifactId> <version>6.0.0-beta1</version> </dependency> Download the full distribution (including source): http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/wicket/6.0.0-beta1 We don't plan any more 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!
