We are very pleased to announce the first release candidate preview of Tapestry 5.3.
Tapestry 5.3 is significantly faster than Tapestry 5.2, and is more memory efficient ... a long with tons of significant new features, improvements, and bug fixes. Details here: http://tapestry.apache.org/2011/10/31/tapestry-53-release-candidate.html This is still a preview release, but we encourage the Tapestry community to upgrade to this release. With positive feedback (and no show-stopping negative feedback) we should progress to a final release of 5.3 in a few weeks. For most users, the upgrade path is simply changing the version number, and performing a clean compile. Note that with each new release, we get a slew of panicked messages that Tapestry is broken in bizarre ways. These ALMOST ALWAYS turn out to be prior-release JARs still on the classpath, either in the developer's working directory, or in a servlet container deployment directory. Please carefully clean up your environment as part of the upgrade! There are some cases where Tapestry 5.3 performs more rigorous checks than Tapestry 5.2; for example, 5.3 ensures that event handler methods that reference a component id ("onSuccessFromLogin") correspond to an actual component ("login"); in Tapestry 5.2, this was not checked for, and the event handler method would never fire ... it likely has a typo in its name, or is related to a component that was removed from the template. This particular check can be disabled: http://tapestry.apache.org/configuration.html#Configuration-tapestry.compatibility.unknowncomponentidcheck... It would be wise to start up your application under 5.3, then use the new PageCatalog page (http://localhost:8080/pagecatalog) and click the "load all" link, to force all pages to be loaded. This will quickly identify any coding problems in your application. -- Howard M. Lewis Ship Creator of Apache Tapestry The source for Tapestry training, mentoring and support. Contact me to learn how I can get you up and productive in Tapestry fast! (971) 678-5210 http://howardlewisship.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org
