*This is a pre-release for the Vaadin 24.9. We appreciate if you give it a try and report any issues you notice.

New and Noteworthy Since Vaadin 24.8

Since Vaadin 24.9, you can start using Vaadin Beta and Release Candidate versions from Maven Central.
Flow:

add new HTML component <code>
add new style methods: STYLE_BACKGROUND_POSITION, STYLE_BACKGROUND_SIZE, STYLE_FILTER, STYLE_GAP, STYLE_ROTATE
add a short method to SortDirection enum (Thanks to @abdurasul29052002)
add convenient API to set item from DataView
Upgraded commercial trial experience (read more)

Design System:

Hilla:

Deprecation

Flow:

Deprecate HierarchyMapper, HierarchicalCommunicationController, HierarchicalArrayUpdater and HierarchicalUpdate
Deprecate methods in HierarchicalDataCommunicator (listed here)
Deprecate webpackOutputDirectory
Deprecate VaadinSession::setConfiguration(configuraiton)
Deprecate setRequestedRange and computeRequestedRange
Deprecate VaadinWebSecurity
Deprecate arrayUpdater and dataupdater

Design System:

Deprecate CookieConsent
Deprecate legacy Grid API (listed here)
Deprecate TreeGridElement's getNumberOfExpandedRows and isLoadingExpandedRows

*Deprecated APIs will be removed in Vaadin 25

Flow (24.9.0-beta1) and Hilla (24.9.0-beta1)
Design System
- Web Components (24.9.0-beta1)
- Flow Components (24.9.0-beta1)
TestBench (9.4.4)
Feature Pack(24.8.2)
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 (6.5.0)
- Control Center (1.4.0-beta1)
- Copilot (24.9.0-beta1)
- Kubernetes Kit (2.4.2)
- Observability Kit (3.1.0)
- SSO Kit (3.1.2)
- Swing Kit (2.4.1)

Official add-ons and plugins:

Spring add-on (24.9.0-beta1)
CDI add-on (15.2.0)
Maven plugin (24.9.0-beta1)
Gradle plugin (24.9.0-beta1)
Quarkus plugin (2.2.1)