Congratulations! On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 8:40 PM Colin Alworth <[email protected]> wrote:
> Today we are pleased to announce the next release of GWT, version 2.9.0. > Some highlights of this release: > * GWT supports Java 9, 10, 11 language features. > * The elemental2 1.0.0 release is supported, along with > jsinterop-annotations 2.0.0 (except @JsAsync, which requires dropping > support for older browsers, and @JsEnum, which assumes closure-compiler > semantics, so isn't appropriate for GWT2), bringing GWT2 in line with J2CL. > Since this is now an official stable release of elemental2, the JSNI-based > elemental that is included with GWT is deprecated, and will be removed in a > future release. > * The release was tested on a variety of operating systems, on Java 8, > 11, and 14. Java 7 is no longer officially supported, and future builds > will be compiled for Java 8 as the minimum required version. > > > Starting shortly after this release, we're going to be changing the > release process slightly - there will be more frequent dated releases > (something like 2.9-20200701) that occur every few months, and minor/bug > fix releases that happen intermittently to signify that a more lengthy > manual testing and acceptance process has taken place. The idea is that > with more frequent releases, changes will make their way faster to the > developers that want them, while for others, more heavily tested releases > for maintenance-mode projects will still be available. > > We'll also be talking soon on the contributors list about the upcoming > releases of individual projects that represent the various modules found in > gwt-user.jar, updated and tested for use in either GWT2 or J2CL. > > We're experiencing some issues in updating the gwtproject.org website, > but to get this release out while that is managed, find the zip download > and the release notes below. Maven/Gradle/Ivy users, just update the GWT > SDK versions to 2.9.0 - the various plugins will be updated as needed in > the coming days. > > GWT SDK zip download: > https://storage.googleapis.com/gwt-releases/gwt-2.9.0.zip > > ---- > > Release Notes for 2.9.0: > > Highlights > > - Able to compile projects with jsinterop-base 1.0.0, elemental2 > 1.0.0, and jsinterop-annotations 2.0.0. With the exception of @JsAsync and > @JsEnum, this brings GWT2 to be compatible across these tools with J2CL. > - Added support for Java language levels 9, 10, and 11. > - Officially, support is dropped for running the GWT compiler or > server-side tooling on Java 7. The GWT distribution is still compiled to > run on Java 7 for this release, but no guarantees are made about whether or > not this will work. Future versions will compile bytecode for Java 8+. The > release was tested and found to work cross platform when run with Java 8, > 11, and 14. > > > Deprecations > > - Elemental has been officially deprecated - it is still included in > this release, but may not appear in future releases. Instead, we encourage > the use of the Elemental2 libraries, which are compatible with both GWT2 > and J2CL. > - Removed NoSuchMethodException emulation. > > > Bug fixes > > - Fixes Arrays.binarySearch semantics for float[] and double[] > - Adds Support multi-line messages in errors/exceptions > - Adds shutdown hook in DiskCache to clean up temp files > - Cache Gecko version to lower CPU usage on FireFox > - Do not assume that "this" is always non null. > - Updates globals for Firefox version 60.0.2, Chrome 66.0.3359.45 > - Fixes String.regionMatches. > - Native JsMethods allowed to coexist with implementations with the > same name. > - Make sure lambdas box, unbox and insert erasure casts when necessary. > - Negative zero treated properly in Double/Float.compare() > > > Miscellaneous > > - Updates CLDR to version 34. > - Arrays now implement Cloneable > - Link backing errors together with a cause attribute, start tracking > suppressed errors in addition to the cause in underlying error object. > - Add AtomicReference to gwt/emul. > - Propagate script nonces via ScriptInjector > - Add partial emulation for ExecutorService and > ScheduledExecutorService > - Emulate java.util.concurrent.Flow > - Emulate javax.annotation{,.processing}.Generated > - Make sure "goog.global" is $wnd if not defined. > - Add when-linker-added element definition > - Add Reader and StringReader emulation. > - Remove GWT version check. > - Do not show "unusable-by-js" warning for synthetic methods. > - Update unmodifiableList to throw on Java8 methods. > - Disable DataflowOptimizer by default and emit a warning when used > > For more detail, see the commit log > <https://gwt.googlesource.com/gwt/+log/2.8.2..release/2.9.0>. > > > ---- > > Finally, if you haven't already done so, please join the very active GWT > discussions happening at https://gitter.im/gwtproject/gwt! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "GWT Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-web-toolkit/b4e6124f-1981-48c1-b390-2115a371df08%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-web-toolkit/b4e6124f-1981-48c1-b390-2115a371df08%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- -- A. Stevko =========== "If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough." M. Andretti -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GWT Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-web-toolkit/CANKsVV%3DbeyZtD5_aaH1JQYGyuKKDUSVxqHyh2iJ82daYVFK2Dw%40mail.gmail.com.
