Roadmap

Vaadin Framework

  • Version 7.2 beta to be released in 2014Q1
    • Grid is designed and built to eventually replace Table and TreeTable. The old components continue to be supported
    • Customizable theme based on SASS
    • Responsive layout support is integrated
  • Major version 7 is supported with regular maintenance releases every 2-3 weeks
  • Major version 6 is supported until 29.5.2014

Vaadin TouchKit

  • Version 4.0 beta to be released on 2014Q1
    • Windows phone support
    • New theme

Vaadin TestBench

  • Version 4.0 beta to be released on 2014Q1
    • Vaadin Driver with more effective support for selecting UI components

Vaadin CDI

  • Version 1.0 beta to be released on 2014Q1

Vaadin Charts

  • Version 2.0 to be released on 2014Q1
    • New 3D chart types included

For more information on the roadmap, read the latest roadmap blog post.

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:

  • Implement it yourself. Really! Just get the the sources, compile and start implementing. It is not that hard.
  • Vote for a ticket of your favourite feature (requires a Pro Account subscription).
  • Sponsor the development of the feature.

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 5 years after the initial public stable release of the major version. 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 to the end of May 2014)
  • Vaadin Framework 7 (maintained at least to the end of Feb 2018)