Common
- Desktop, Web, and Android artifacts publish at the same time with the same version
Desktop
Features
- Context menu support in selectable text
- Cursor change behavior in text and pointer icon API
- Mouse Clickable modifier
- Tab navigation between text fields by default
- Resource packing to native distribution
- Support @Preview annotation in desktopMain sourceSet's (when the Compose MPP plugin is installed in IDEA)
- New features for Composable menu (icons, shortcuts, mnemonics, radiob buttons, checkboxes
- Adaptive window size
- Support Linux on ARM64
- Support hidpi on some Linux distros
- Support resizing of undecorated resizable windows (Window(undecorated=true, resizable=true, ...))
API changes
- new Window API is no longer experimental
- old Window API is deprecated
- classes from
android.compose.desktop.*moved toandroidx.compose.ui.awt.*(ComposeWindow, ComposePanel, etc) svgResource/vectorXmlResource/imageResourcereplaced by painterResource
API breaking changes:
- Window level keyboard API for the old Window API removed
- Window(icon: BufferedImage) replaced by Window(icon: Painter)
- ContextMenu renamed to CursorDropdownMenu
Web
API changes
- classes behave cumulatively
- removed content builder for empty elements
- Introduce CSS arithmetic operations
- Improved the types of Inputs and input events
- All event types expose native properties
- Added a complete list of HTML color aliases
- Introduce support for CSS Grid API
- Deprecate Color.RGB, Color.HSL etc. functions in favor of top-level rgb, hsl an so on
- negate CSSNumeric value directly
API breaking changes
- boolean like attributes don't have any parameters anymore
- removed input type specific event listeners
- replaced maxWidth/minWidth media queries with prefixed names
- Remove CSSVariables context and introduce specialized methods for adding String- and Number-valued CSS variables
- inline style builder was moved into AttributeBuilder scope