v5.1.0

• automatic hot reload after code changes,
• lambdas as handlers - with named and type-safe parameters,
• URI path patterns (simple and regex-based),
• Admin Center for convenient management of the deployed app,
• JVM and OS metrics in the Admin Center,
• info about the web app routes in the Admin Center,
• role-based web security with out-of-the-box login / logout,
• configuration info in the Admin Center,
• configuration profiles,
• improved dependency injection (with profile support),
• easy JPA bootstrap with TX management and nice utils like JPA.insert(new Foo()),
• redesigned and enhanced JDBC utils,
• scaffolding of JPA entities (RESTful services and management GUI),
• new templating language and engine - similar to Mustache, but more practical,
• highly customizable setup (serialization, security, error handling, template engine...),
• many GUI enhancements...

v5.0.0

• Major reorganization of the modules
• Introduced clean API for the HTTP server
• Introduced the Fluent module/framework
• Improved the GUI components
• Improved the API for the classpath scanner
• Many bug fixes

v4.4.0

[maven-release-plugin] copy for tag 4.4.0

v4.3.0

[maven-release-plugin] copy for tag 4.3.0

v4.2.0

[maven-release-plugin] copy for tag 4.2.0

v4.1.0

• Replaced the Java-based page construction with Mustache templates
• Added Cassandra-based implementation of the DB plugin (using the Datastax driver)
• Included C3P0 for JDBC connection pooling for Hibernate and the simple SQL API
• Added Micro-services support
• Implemented caching of file resources, with reloading and change notifications
• Added Jackson-based YAML parser utils
• Added support for multi-threaded context spanning
• Switched to async HTTP client
• Implemented simple Watch service, notifying about file system changes (a simplification on top of Java NIO's watch service)
• Introduced multi-app request routing
• Improved transaction management
• Simplified GUI pages (now defined by methods instead of classes)
• Introduced more plugins Email, SMS, Templates etc
• Added simple utils for scripting with JavaScript (Rhino or Nashorn)
• Defined project resources layout ("dynamic", "static" and "templates" folders)
• Added support for JavaScript-based RESTful services or dynamic pages using scripting
• Simplified app configuration (App details, OAuth config etc.) using "app.yaml" configuration file
• Simplified app menu construction using "menu.yaml" configuration file
• Added even more cool utils in U (dynamic, mapOfMaps, mapOfLists, etc.)
• Added support for multi-path resource trac
• Improved the default CSS theme
• Enhanced the error page
• Improved the snippet widget
• Simplified logging, re-based it on top of SLF4j, and included Logback by default
• Introduced new context-aware job executor service with reference-counting clean-up

v4.0.1

• Fixed classpath scanning bug appearing on Windows,
• Fixed HSQLDB connecting string bug.

v4.0.0

• Major changes in HTTP API (simplified and improved),
• Added new small modules with utils for finer granularity,
• Introduced "cookiepack" scope - stateless cookie-persisted session,
• Introduced "local" scope - stateless page-local data persisted across ajax requests,
• Refactored GUI widgets and state - using "local" view state,
• Implemented more powerful classpath scanner (super-simple, no config required),
• Replaced name-based with annotation-based component discovery mechanism,
• Separated per-request transaction management through configurable AOP-style method interceptors,
• Introduced JS and CSS library packs,
• Many bug fixes.

v3.0.0

• Major redesign of many modules and components.
• Separated the experimental X-modules from the main distribution.
• De-coupled subsystems through plugin architecture (e.g DB plugin).
• Introduced SQL module with a simple JDBC abstraction DSL.
• Added built-in support for JPA (the default implementation of the DB plugin).
• Replaced convention-based with annotation-based RESTful services.
• Added module "Quick" for quick development (including JPA/Hibernate and H2 in-mem database).
• Added new CSS utils and components.
• Enhanced the default application look&feel.
• Many bug fixes.

v2.4.0

• Added support for clean, empty pages (without navbar etc.)
• Added simple debug widget
• Improved AngularJS support
• Introduced a card widget
• Added multi-column support in stream widget
• Introduced Dict data structure
• Many bug fixes