I"0<p>The Apache Wicket PMC is proud to announce Apache Wicket 8.0.0-M7!</p>

<p>Apache Wicket is an open source Java component oriented web application
framework that powers thousands of web applications and web sites for
governments, stores, universities, cities, banks, email providers, and
more. You can find more about Apache Wicket at https://wicket.apache.org</p>

<p>This release marks another minor release of Wicket 8. We
use semantic versioning for the development of Wicket, and as such no
API breaks are present breaks are present in this release compared to
8.0.0.</p>

<h2 id="using-this-release">Using this release</h2>

<p>With Apache Maven update your dependency to (and don’t forget to
update any other dependencies on Wicket projects to the same version):</p>

<figure class="highlight"><pre><code class="language-xml" data-lang="xml"><span class="nt">&lt;dependency&gt;</span>
    <span class="nt">&lt;groupId&gt;</span>org.apache.wicket<span class="nt">&lt;/groupId&gt;</span>
    <span class="nt">&lt;artifactId&gt;</span>wicket-core<span class="nt">&lt;/artifactId&gt;</span>
    <span class="nt">&lt;version&gt;</span>8.0.0-M7<span class="nt">&lt;/version&gt;</span>
<span class="nt">&lt;/dependency&gt;</span></code></pre></figure>

<p>Or download and build the distribution yourself, or use our
convenience binary package</p>

<ul>
  <li>Source: <a href="http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/wicket/8.0.0-M7">8.0.0-M7 source download</a></li>
  <li>Binary: <a href="http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/wicket/8.0.0-M7/binaries">8.0.0-M7 binary download</a></li>
</ul>

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<h2 id="upgrading-from-earlier-versions">Upgrading from earlier versions</h2>

<p>If you upgrade from 8.y.z this release is a drop in replacement. If
you come from a version prior to 8.0.0, please read our Wicket 8
migration guide found at</p>

<ul>
  <li>http://s.apache.org/wicket8migrate</li>
</ul>

<p>Have fun!</p>

<p>— The Wicket team</p>

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<h3 id="this-release">This Release</h3>

<h4 id="changelog-for-800-m7">CHANGELOG for 8.0.0-M7:</h4>

<h5 id="bug">Bug</h5>

<ul>
  <li>[WICKET-4324] - [wicket-ioc] LazyInitProxyFactory CGLIB proxies naming strategy may cause java.lang.IllegalAccessError</li>
  <li>[WICKET-6366] - Autocomplete race condition makes page unresponsive</li>
  <li>[WICKET-6373] - Edge not recognized in UserAgent</li>
  <li>[WICKET-6374] - Exception caused by border extending another border with <wicket:extend></wicket:extend></li>
  <li>[WICKET-6376] - Ajax redirects to non http(s)-urls are interpreted as relative</li>
  <li>[WICKET-6377] - Autolinking breaks hierarchy for nested elements</li>
  <li>[WICKET-6379] - IModel’s default models should detach the target model</li>
  <li>[WICKET-6386] - Simplification of the code in WICKET-3347 is not consistent with previous behavior</li>
  <li>[WICKET-6387] - ModalWindow PageReference broken</li>
  <li>[WICKET-6393] - NestedStringResourceLoader ignores hard-coded default values and throws MissingResourceException</li>
  <li>[WICKET-6398] - WICKET-6204 breaks jQuery.noConflict()</li>
  <li>[WICKET-6399] - Dequeuing of Border component with nested body fails</li>
  <li>[WICKET-6400] - Object with array property fails on NPE when construction JSON object</li>
  <li>[WICKET-6402] - OSGi-Manifest: wicket does not declare BSN</li>
  <li>[WICKET-6406] - Each path has to be pushed directly</li>
  <li>[WICKET-6419] -  Localization of PageParameters</li>
  <li>[WICKET-6428] - PageProvider#getPageInstance() may return null</li>
  <li>[WICKET-6429] - AbstractRequestLogger should not create new Sessions</li>
  <li>[WICKET-6434] - Fixed WicketTester to detect components in enclosure when doing isComponentOnAjaxResponse.</li>
</ul>

<h5 id="improvement">Improvement</h5>

<ul>
  <li>[WICKET-6372] - Consider to switch to a sans-serif typeface in the Wicket guide</li>
  <li>[WICKET-6385] - Allow using custom port for web socket connections</li>
  <li>[WICKET-6388] - MockServletContext should define non-null session tracking modes</li>
  <li>[WICKET-6389] - Introduce CsrfPreventionRequestCycleListener that is aware of Web Socket requests</li>
  <li>[WICKET-6401] - OSGi-Manifest: wicket-util should decalre its dependency to ‘commons-io’ and ‘commons-fileupload’</li>
  <li>[WICKET-6412] - Model#orElse behavior is inconsistent!</li>
  <li>[WICKET-6421] - WicketTester should provide assertBehavior method</li>
  <li>[WICKET-6433] - Allow to set the rel attribute with CssHeaderItem</li>
  <li>[WICKET-6436] - Please add CompoundPropertyModel.of(T object) method</li>
  <li>[WICKET-6437] - Libraries should be updated to most recent versions</li>
</ul>

<h5 id="task">Task</h5>

<ul>
  <li>[WICKET-6390] - Update Tomcat to 8.5.15 to get the latest HTTP2 features and APIs</li>
</ul>

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