FYI: I found a minor problem in Tapestry 5.2-rc-1 and am building/uploading Tapestry 5.2-rc-2 right now.
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Howard Lewis Ship <hls...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > -- 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
