Tapestry 5.1 final release now available

The stable release for Tapestry 5.1, release 5.1.0.5, is now available for download.

Tapestry 5.1 includes a large number of improvements to the speed and scalability of Tapestry without sacrificing backwards compatibility. However, you should still consult the upgrade notes, which identify a couple of minor "gotchas".

Major improvements from Tapestry 5.0 to Tapestry 5.1:

• Performance optimizations that speed rendering of very complex pages, and reduce memory usage
• Static JavaScript libraries will now be dynamically combined into a single request
• Automatic GZIP compression of static and dynamic content, for clients that support it
• Significant improvements to Tapestry's property expression language
• Partial page updates (via Ajax) may now update multiple client-side Zones
• Many new features and improvements to Tapestry template files
• Improved client- and server-side validation of numeric input values
• User's preferred locale is now encoded into the URL, rather than stored in a cookie
• A new ProgressiveDisplay component for incremental page loading
• Vastly improved Maven Quickstart Archetype
• New Tapestry IoC features to make it easier to override services and contributions to service configurations
• Many new localizations of validation messages
• Component reference documentation now identifies events triggered by components
• Really slick new client-side logging facility (based on Blackbird)
• New API for URL rewriting (to provide improved control over Tapestry URLs)

... and many, many more bug fixes and improvements; full details are available in the release notes.

Download Tapestry 5.1.0.5