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Vaadin 6.5.0 Released

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Joonas Lehtinen
Joonas Lehtinen
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On Jan 24, 2011 12:50:00 PM
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The next stable version of Vaadin Framework - code named "St. Petersburg" is released today at the first Russian Vaadin Meetup - in St. Petersburg.

The focus of this release is quality and the release includes only few new features. Instead we have put a lot of effort in building numerous regression tests - including over 8500 pixel level regression tests - and corrected many annoying bugs to make this the best Vaadin release so far.

Some of the features in the release include:

  • Logging - You can now configure logging level with java.util.logging for Vaadin to get rid of unnecessary messages.
  • GWT 2.1.0 - Update to the latest version of Google Web Toolkit gives you numerous features, optimizations and fixes.
  • Windows (within a browser window) can now be ordered and their focus can be controlled programmatically.
  • Chrome frame is now officially a supported browser. Hopefully this helps speeding up old installations of IE6.
  • Text components can finally be configured to send key-presses immeately back to server

We urge everyone developing Vaadin 6 -based applications to upgrade to 6.5.0. You can download it today from the Download Page or from the Maven central repository.

Joonas Lehtinen
Joonas Lehtinen
Joonas is the CPO and co-founder of Vaadin. He has been working with web app development tools and technologies for over 20 years and speaks frequently in Java conferences around the world. Joonas lives is San Jose, CA, with his wife and 10 year old son. You can follow him on Twitter – @joonaslehtinen
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