vaadin/flow 2.3.0

2.3.0 - Release for Vaadin 14.3

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Vaadin Flow 2.3.0 is a feature release of the Java Framework for Vaadin 14.3 that includes a number of new features and enhancements.

New features in 2.3

• Browser live-reload with Spring Boot Dev tools, JRebel 2020.2.1+ and Trava OpenJDK Dcevm-11.0.7+2+
  • There is a visual indicator in the UI in development mode showing the live reload status and notification for reloads.
  • Documentation can be found from the indicator - there is a redirect to correct version
  • Not included or enabled for production mode/build.
  • Servers using application classloaders (e.g. Wildfly) require HotswapAgent 1.4.2-SNAPSHOT.
  • Will not work in bower/webjars compatibility mode.
• New methods for modifying existing data bindings (#5030)
  • Enable / disable all validators on Binder level
  • Enable / disable validators on Binding level
  • add writeBeanAsDraft(BEAN bean,boolean forced) for writing draft bean with validators disabled
• Direction RTL/LTR can be set from the UI class with setDirection(Direction)
• Frontend development time dependencies are locked to prevent builds failing due to unwanted updates (#7958)
• The location & version where Node.js is installed automatically by the framework can be customized with the node.version and node.download.root parameters with both Maven and Gradle plugins.

Changes

All changes since 2.3.0.beta3
All changes since 2.2