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This is a pre-release for the Vaadin 24.8. We appreciate if you give it a try and report any issues you notice. To use this release, you'll need to have following repositories declared in your project (Vaadin pre-releases are not pushed to Maven central) :

<repositories>
    <repository>
        <id>vaadin-prereleases</id>
        <url>
            https://maven.vaadin.com/vaadin-prereleases/
        </url>
    </repository>
</repositories>

<pluginRepositories>
    <pluginRepository>
        <id>vaadin-prereleases</id>
        <url>
            https://maven.vaadin.com/vaadin-prereleases/
        </url>
    </pluginRepository>
</pluginRepositories>

New and Noteworthy Since Vaadin 24.7

Flow - Reactive UI state management with Signals (Documentation draft)
Flow - Simplified Upload and Download handling in Flow (Documentation: Upload handler, Download handler)
(more Flow new features can be found from Flow 24.8.0.beta1 release note)

DS - Card component (Flow API)
DS - Dashboard Updates (Doc)
DS - DateTimePicker Validation improvements (Ticket)
DS - New generation Form layout that allows handling many complex situations automatically (Doc)
DS - Map Polygon Support (Doc)
DS - Master-Detail layout (Doc)
DS - Markdown Support (Doc)

Hilla - Custom view metadata (Ticket)
Hilla - Endpoint exception updates (Ticket)
Hilla - Kotlin language nullability support (Ticket)
Hilla - Translation API: key literal (Ticket)
Hilla - Service Worker endpoints support (Ticket, Doc)
Hilla - Lazy loading for file router views (Ticket)

CC - Database management for Vaadin apps in Control Center (Documentation)

Copilot - Custom Components
Copilot - Property Panel Copilot

Modernization Tool - Further expanded automatic Vaadin 7 to Vaadin 24 migration support in Modernization Toolkit.

*There are documentations in draft or Pull requests for the mentioned new features, which might be updated in the future updates

Changelogs

• Flow (24.8.0.rc1) and Hilla (24.8.0.rc1)
• Design System
  • Web Components (24.8.0-rc1)
  • Flow Components (24.8.0.rc1)
• TestBench (9.4.0.rc1)
• Feature Pack(24.8.0.rc1)
• Modernization Toolkit (Documentation)
  • Feature Pack (Documentation)
  • Dragonfly (Documentation)
  • Modernization Toolkit Analyzer (Analyzer for Eclipse, Analyzer for Maven)
• Multiplatform Runtime (MPR) (7.0.11)
• Router (2.0.0)
• Vaadin Kits
  • AppSec Kit (3.3.0)
  • Azure Kit (1.0.0)
  • Collaboration Engine (6.4.0)
  • Control Center (Documentation)
  • Copilot (24.8.0.rc1)
  • Kubernetes Kit (2.4.2)
  • Observability Kit (3.1.0)
  • SSO Kit (3.1.1)
  • Swing Kit (2.4.0)

Official add-ons and plugins:

• Spring add-on (24.8.0.rc1)
• CDI add-on (15.2.0.rc1)
• Maven plugin (24.8.0.rc1)
• Gradle plugin (24.8.0.rc1)
• Quarkus plugin (2.2.0.rc1)