🎉 Working perfectly on my project. Thank you all! On Thursday, 12 February 2026 at 6:54:10 am UTC+11 Colin Alworth wrote:
> GWT 2.13 has been released! It is available from our releases page as a > SDK zip, or from Maven Central in the usual manner. > > Highlights from the release notes: > > - Removed more old polyfills and IE-specific workarounds > - Samples updated to use Maven, usually as multi-module projects > - 2.13 is likely to be the last release where the compiler and dev > tools run on Java 11. Java 8 server support is not explicitly tested any > more, we no longer seem to have any interest in this (or at least no one > volunteering for the release testing or other maintenance work) > - DevMode server defaults to only serving static files - projects that > wish to use the old Jetty 9 launcher may specify -server > com.google.gwt.dev.shell.JettyLauncher, but this is due to be removed. > Projects should either split their server/client classpath, or switch to a > ServletContainerLauncher that runs another server ( > https://github.com/niloc132/gwt-devmode-server-sample is an example > project that can provide this) > - Support -strict in test arguments, to more easily find compile > issues in GWT libraries > - JFR events added to replace SpeedTracer, support observability into > compiler steps, permutation and fragment counts, and output size. > Additionally, the gwt.jjs.dumpAst system property has been tweaked to > support filtering, and generate more readable output > - jaxb and xml-apis are now optional when using GWT's javax.validation > support, set the gwt.validation.ignoreXml system property to avoid needing > these > - Improved JRE emulation tracking, listing not only supported APIs, > but also document unsupported APIs with links to issues > > > See https://github.com/gwtproject/gwt/releases/tag/2.13.0 or > https://www.gwtproject.org/release-notes.html#Release_Notes_2_13_0 for > the complete release notes. > > This has been a longer release cycle than we are happy with, so thank you > for everyone's patience with this. Much of my own work that delayed the > release will hopefully pay off for the next one - there are better tools to > track what work the compiler is changing and how it is working, and more > unused classes have been deprecated or removed as appropriate to enable > future work to change our build system away from Ant. Other contributors > made excellent use of this extra time - the list of JRE enhancements is > especially impressive, the most classes updated since 2.9.0, which took far > longer to produce. > > There is a known issue that may impact Windows users when running DevMode > or CodeServer, tracked as https://github.com/gwtproject/gwt/issues/10272. > If you experience this, please do leave a note with any details about your > environment - we have a candidate fix, but as most Windows testers are > _not_ impacted by it, there is concern that the problem might not be fully > understood or the fix incomplete. > > Special thanks to our testers over the last week for validating the > release on a variety of OSes, Java versions, browsers, and IDEs. > -- 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 visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-web-toolkit/fda3574a-8eef-4ab8-b14f-80985e4e92b8n%40googlegroups.com.
