The Griffon team is happy to announce the release of Griffon 2.4.0!
The following list summarizes the changes brought by this release:
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Upgraded to Groovy 2.4.4 and Guice 4.0.
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New GDSL for SwingBuilder nodes.
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Guice modules may be annotated with griffon.inject.DependsOn.
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Query for a key’s existence on a specific griffon.core.Context or its
hierarchy.
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Updates to MVCGroup relationship behavior.
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Support contextual injections via @Contextual.
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Java8 specific property editors added:
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java.time.LocalDate, java.time.LocalDateTime, java.time.LocalTime.
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extensions for java.util.Calendar and java.util.Date that can handle
java.time types.
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JavaFX support received lots up updates:
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new AST transformations: @ListChangeListener and @MapChangeListener.
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Automatically wrap listeners generated by @ChangeListener,
@InvalidationListener, @ListChangeListener and @MapChangeListener
with their Weak reference counterparts.
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JavaFXUtils can bind ToolBar buttons to actions.
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JavaFXUtils.findElement works with more containers.
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GraphicPropertyEditor can handle plain resources.
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New property editors:
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LinearGradientPropertyEditor, RadialGradientPropertyEditor and
PaintPropertyEditor.
A more detailed description of the changes and compatibility issues can be
found at the release notes
<http://griffon-framework.org/releasenotes/griffon_2.4.0.html>.
We look forward to your feedback. Please report any problems you find to
the Griffon User list, or better yet, file a bug at
http://github.com/griffon/griffon/issues
Remember you can also contact the team on Twitter: @theaviary
<http://twitter.com/theaviary>.
Many thanks to all who contributed to this release!
The Griffon Team
