The Apache Wicket PMC is proud to announce Apache Wicket 8.0.0!
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
This is the next major release of Apache Wicket. Developers can write better, smaller code using Java8 lambdas.
Apache Wicket v8.0 reflects over 2 years of development, testing and feedback from hundreds of knowledgable users, bringing a highly stable, production ready release of the popular web framework. The release consist of almost 360 features, improvements and fixes. In accordance with Semantic Versioning, this major release contains several documented API breaks. Following the Semantic Versioning standard, future minor releases of Wicket v8.0 will remain API compatible.
With Apache Maven update your dependency to (and don't forget to update any other dependencies on Wicket projects to the same version):
{% highlight xml%} org.apache.wicket wicket-core 8.0.0 {% endhighlight%}
Or download and build the distribution yourself, or use our convenience binary package
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
Have fun!
— The Wicket team
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