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Apache Wicket 6.13.0 released

The Apache Wicket PMC is proud to announce Apache Wicket 6.13.0!

This release marks the thirteenth minor release of Wicket 6. Starting with Wicket 6 we use semantic versioning for the future development of Wicket, and as such no API breaks are present in this release compared to 6.0.0.

New and noteworthy

This release fixes 25 bugs and adds the following improvements:

Online Wicket reference guide

After many years of people asking for a reference guide for Apache Wicket we finally were able to add one to our site thanks to Andrea del Bene and comSysto for writing the guide and providing the hours of converting it to our site.

You can read the manual in 3 forms: multi page HTML, single page HTML and PDF.

The contents:

Read more in the “User guide”.

New CDI-1.1 integration project

A new (experimental) module for CDI integration was added to support CDI 1.1 with Wicket. As CDI 1.0 and 1.1 are different beasts and not compatible, we had to craft a new module with specific support for the new CDI standard. The module is still experimental, but we expect to make it a default module in a couple of releases.

You can use the new Wicket CDI module by including the following dependency in your POM:

org.apache.wicket wicket-cdi-1.1 0.2

Note that you have to remove the old wicket-cdi module and the Seam conversation dependency: org.jboss.seam.conversation:seam-conversation-weld

For more information about what is new in CDI 1.1 read this blog post by Pete Muir.

JQuery update in 6.9.0

As of Wicket 6.9 we ship JQuery 1.10.1 (since 6.13.0 we ship 1.10.2). The JQuery project has decided to remove deprecated APIs from their codebase from JQuery 1.9 and up. This means that JQuery plugins using these deprecated APIs no longer work. See the JQuery migration guide for more information, available from the JQuery web site

If your application depends on these deprecated APIs you can easily downgrade to JQuery 1.8.3-the previously provided JQuery that still contains these APIs. Download the 1.8.3 release of jquery and add it to your project in its application’s init method:

@Override protected void init() { getJavaScriptLibrarySettings() .setJQueryReference(yourJquery183ResourceReference); }

CDI injection issue

In the CDI releases of Weld 2.0.1 and prior, it was assumed that injection in anonymous inner classes was not legal and when attempted, it resulted in an exception:

Caused by: org.jboss.weld.exceptions.DefinitionException: WELD-000070 Simple bean [EnhancedAnnotatedTypeImpl] private class com.example.HomePage$AForm cannot be a non-static inner class

This was reported as WICKET-5226, as it became an issue in Glassfish 4, which ships with Weld 2.0.1 (or earlier). We implemented a fix for this particular issue by not injecting into anonymous inner classes.

Unfortunately this was not a bug that needed fixing on our part, but rather in the Weld framework (see WELD-1441)

Therefore we reverted the commits done for WICKET-5226 and hope that Glassfish will upgrade their Weld implementation soon. For the whole story read WICKET-5264

Glassfish has fixed this in trunk according to GLASSFISH-20619 but the fix has yet to be integrated into a release.

Using this release

With Apache Maven update your dependency to (and don’t forget to update any other dependencies on Wicket projects to the same version):

org.apache.wicket wicket-core 6.13.0

Or download and build the distribution yourself, or use our convenience binary package

Upgrading from earlier versions

If you upgrade from 6.y.z this release is a drop in replacement. If you come from a version prior to 6.0.0, please read our Wicket 6 migration guide found at

Have fun!

— The Wicket team

Release Notes - Wicket - Version 6.13.0

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