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layout: post title: Wicket 1.5-RC1 released

The Wicket Team is proud to introduce the first Release Candidate in Wicket 1.5 series. The 1.5 series provides the following major improvements:

• A more powerful and flexible request processing pipeline
• Intercomponent event mechanism
• Improved configuration
• More flexible markup loading
• Better proxy support (x-forwarded-for header)

More detailed migration notes are available on our Migrate to 1.5 Wiki Page

Release Artifacts:

• Subversion tag
• Changelog
• To use in Maven: {% highlight xml %} org.apache.wicket wicket 1.5-RC1 {% endhighlight %}
• Download the full distribution (including source)