PrimeFaces 3.5.RC1 Released

PrimeFaces Team is pleased to announce the first release candidate of PrimeFaces 3.5. This version features new components, enhancements to existing components, major maintenance, RTL support, improved accessibility and more. Compared to previous major release 3.4, there are over 175+ filed improvements.

Notable changes are;

New component: Clock

New component: Horizontal Tree

Reimplemented Galleria as a native widget

DataTable Multiple Column Sorting

DataTable InCell Editing

Frozen Rows for DataTable

Reimplemented Scrollable-Resizable Tables

Resizable TreeTable

Content support for selectOneListbox and selectManyMenu

Range Slider

Option Group support for SelectOneMenu

Global Tooltips

Updates to PrimePush and Atmosphere Framework

IE7 is no longer supported

RTL Support

Many important components such as datatable, accordion, dialog, tree and tabview now support RTL direction either by using dir attribute or primefaces.DIR global setting. More components will receive RTL enhancements in future releases.

Accessibility

Various components are improved with accessibility features such as keyboard support and screen reader compatibility via ARIA roles-attributes. As usual, accessibility will be continued to be improved in future.

Backward Compatibility

Please see migration guide before updating your application to a newer PrimeFaces release.

Download

Download links are available at downloads page, maven users just need to update their artifact dependency to primefaces-3.5.RC1.

3.5 Final

Final release is due 28th, please test the release candidate and report any problem you face.

Optimus Out!