Vaadin 18.0.4
Vaadin consists of a set of web components, a Java web framework, configurable themes, tools and a set of app templates.
This is a maintenance release of Vaadin.
See the full release notes for vaadin 18.0 in GitHub releases, including new features, getting started, supported browsers and other technologies, and migration notes.
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New and Noteworthy
Here are the highlighted new and improved features in this maintenance release.
Changes in Flow Components from 18.0.3
Changes in vaadin-avatar-flow
- Chore:
- ⧉ Increase Web-Component version
Changes in vaadin-crud-flow
Changes in vaadin-date-picker-flow
vaadin-date-time-picker-flow
vaadin-radio-button-flow
vaadin-text-field-flow
vaadin-time-picker-flow
- Fixes:
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⧉ Fix client side validation overriding (#512). PR:548. Ticket:8848
The workaround for overriding the client side validation for certain components was causing an unnecessary roundtrip to the server side, which also caused two warnings to be logged by Flow each time a disabled or a readonly component was added to the UI. The warning happened twice since two executeJS calls were enqueued: one immediately, and another when attached. Apparently there was no good reason for this behavior. This fix will only apply the executeJS once when the component is attached and it will not require a separate roundtrip to workaround the client side validation overriding the invalid value because the JS execution is enqueued on the "beforeClientResponse" phase when the server side invalid value has been resolved and can be used in the JS execution. Further improvement would be to move the FieldValidationUtil to its own module and reused from there, but that is left for later (?).
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Changes since 18.0.3
- Vaadin Accordion (web component v1.2.0)
- Vaadin App Layout (web component v2.2.0)
- Vaadin Avatar (web component v1.0.3)
- Vaadin Button (web component v2.4.0)
- Vaadin Checkbox (web component v2.5.0)
- Checkbox
- Checkbox Group
- Vaadin Combo Box (web component v5.4.7)
- Vaadin Context Menu (web component v4.5.0)
- Vaadin Custom Field (web component v1.3.0)
- Vaadin Date Picker (web component v4.4.1)
- Vaadin Date Time Picker (web component v1.4.0)
- Vaadin Details (web component v1.2.0)
- Vaadin Dialog (web component v2.5.2)
- Vaadin Form Layout (web component v2.3.0)
- Vaadin Grid (web component v5.7.7)
- Grid
- Tree Grid
- Grid Context Menu
- Vaadin Icons (web component v4.3.2)
- Vaadin List Box (web component v1.4.0)
- Vaadin Login (web component v1.2.0)
- Vaadin Menu Bar (web component v1.2.1)
- Vaadin Notification (web component v1.6.0)
- Vaadin Ordered Layout (web component v1.4.0)
- Horizontal Layout
- Vertical Layout
- Flex Layout
- Vaadin Progress Bar (web component v1.3.0)
- Vaadin Radio Button (web component v1.5.1)
- Radio Button
- Radio Button Group
- Vaadin Select (web component v2.4.0)
- Vaadin Split Layout (web component v4.3.0)
- Vaadin Tabs (web component v3.2.0)
- Vaadin Text Field (web component v2.8.2)
- Text Field
- Text Area
- Password Field
- Big Decimal Field
- Email Field
- Integer Field
- Number Field
- Vaadin Time Picker (web component v2.4.0)
- Vaadin Upload (web component v4.4.1)
- Vaadin Board (PRO) (web component v2.2.0)
- Vaadin Charts (PRO) (web component v7.0.0)
- Vaadin Confirm Dialog (PRO) (web component v1.3.0)
- Vaadin Cookie Consent (PRO) (web component v1.2.0)
- Vaadin Crud (PRO) (web component v1.3.0)
- Vaadin Grid Pro (PRO) (web component v2.2.2)
- Vaadin Rich Text Editor (PRO) (web component v1.3.0)
Support
Vaadin 18 is supported for one month after Vaadin 19 has been released. The latest LTS (long term support) version is Vaadin 14. More details of our release model are available on our roadmap page.
Vaadin also provides commercial support and warranty.
Getting Started with Vaadin
App starters
The best way to get started with Vaadin is to go to https://vaadin.com/start and pick an app template for the technology stack you’re interested in.
For the full list of how to get started go to the GitHub releases.
Reporting Issues
We appreciate if you try to find the most relevant repository to report the issue in. If it is not obvious which project to add issues to, you are always welcome to report any issue at https://github.com/vaadin/platform/issues.
A few rules of thumb will help you and us in finding the correct repository for the issue:
- Bug tickets and enhancement requests that are specific to a certain Vaadin component should be posted in the component's Web Component repostory (e.g. https://github.com/vaadin/vaadin-button for Button).
- Issues that are not component-specific (e.g. requests for new components) or encompass multiple components should be posted in vaadin-flow-components repository.
- If you encounter an issue with Flow which does not seem to be related to a specific component, the problem is likely in Flow itself. The Flow repository is https://github.com/vaadin/flow
- If you encounter an issue with Designer, the repository is https://github.com/vaadin/designer
- If you encounter an issue with TestBench, the repository is https://github.com/vaadin/testbench