Roadmap

The following roadmap represents Vaadin team's current expectations of its product development schedules and future directions. This is intended for informational purposes only and should not be interpreted as a commitment. It is more likely than not that the schedules and roadmap targets change in the future. These changes are updated on this web page regularly.

Vaadin Framework 7.5

  • Features
    • Grid - new features
      • Column reordering by the user
      • Column hiding and showing (column collapse in Table)
      • Details row - click a row to show more information about it
  • Estimated release
    • June

Major version 7 is supported with regular maintenance releases every 2-3 weeks. Major focus is on continuously increasing the quality of the framework. Covered by the bug fix priority service.

Major version 6 is covered by the bug fix priority service. In addition to prioritized bugs, only security and other major issues are addressed.

Vaadin Spring 1.0

  • Features
    • Provides an officially supported way of using Spring with Vaadin
    • UI, View and Session scopes
    • Injection and automatic mapping of UIs and Views
    • Spring Boot support
  • Estimated schedule
    • April

Vaadin Designer 1.0

  • Design your layouts visually instead of with Java code - see the results immediately
  • Features
    • Read/write of the Vaadin declarative format
    • Visually design UIs, views, custom components
    • See live preview on multiple connected devices
    • Integrated into Eclipse
  • Estimated schedule
    • April

Vaadin Designer will be released under the CVALv3 license.

Vaadin Spreadsheet 1.0

  • Features
    • View and edit spreadsheets
    • Read/write of XLSX format
    • Lazy loading from server
    • 200 Excel-compatible formulas
    • Keyboard navigation
    • Cell, range, column and row selection
  • Estimated schedule
    • March

Vaadin Spreadsheet will be released under the CVALv3 license.

Vaadin Components

  • A high quality set of Web Components
    • Usable on any web page
    • Valo theme engine
    • Declarative and JavaScript API for Polymer, AngularJS and generic HTML5
    • Java API for GWT 
  • Estimated schedule
    • Before end of 2015

 

Milestones

What Happens Right Now?

Up-to-the-minute list of things that the Vaadin development team is working on is maintained on the timeline.

What Happens Next?

All of the planned future development can be viewed in the milestones on this page. Milestones with a date are mostly implemented in a timely manner. Ideas on the backlogs with no date set might never get implemented.

How To Get Feature X Implemented?

There are three ways of ensuring that your favourite feature will get implemented:

We value all suggestions for new features and will try to accomodate as much as possible. Vaadin UserVoice also contains feature suggestions which you can vote for.

How To Get the Feature In Vaadin?

Implementing a feature for yourself is one thing, implementing and documenting it in a way everyone can enjoy it is a totally different story. For the feature to get in the main release, it must be ready for everyone and the development team must feel comfortable maintaining the feature for years.

If you have implemented a feature that you consider worthy to be integrated, please post your development as a new ticket (with patch). We try to evaluate all patches in a timely fashion and will respect your contribution and try really hard to make it happen.

Version numbers

All version numbers for Vaadin products are of form major.minor.maintenance.postfix. Major releases are released, when new features require breaking backwards compatibility. Minor releases are released for adding new features that maintain backwards compatibility. Maintenance releases fix bugs and contain no new features. The postfix is optional indication of stability. For more info on version numbers, read this blog post.

Maintenance

Each major release of Vaadin Framework is maintained for at least 5 years after the initial public stable release of the major version. A major version is maintained with minor and maintenance releases. Only the latest minor release for each major release will receive maintenance releases.

Currently supported major versions are:

  • Vaadin Framework 6 (maintained until the release of Vaadin 8)
  • Vaadin Framework 7 (maintained at least to the end of Feb 2018)