We are happy to announce new updates in WaveMaker that will enhance your development experience and application quality. This is a product update for the months of June and July 2024.
Support for Java 17 and 21 Deployment
WaveMaker now supports deployment on web servers using Java 17 and Java 21 alongside Java 11. This update prepares for future Java versions and enhances compatibility with modern libraries.
Performance Improvements
- Dialogs now load their content only when you click them to open. This helps web pages with many complex dialogs load faster
- Bind Dialog and Tab Loading: Tabs in the bind dialog now load only when needed, improving navigation speed and overall performance
- Web pages with many dialogs, containing a lot of Widgets and Prefabs will now load and perform better with lazy loading; dialog content only loads when the dialog is clicked
- Prefabs load faster; reducing the number of calls needed to access properties and configuration files
- Optimized Angular builds to reduce the size of the generated application files (like
vendor.jsandmain.js); the studio loads noticeably faster
Accessibility Enhancement with Label Widgets
WaveMaker improves accessibility by using semantic tags like <p> and <h1>–<h6> instead of <label> tags outside of forms. This change ensures compliance with accessibility standards.
Pull Request Flow for Custom VCS
Introducing a Pull Request (PR) flow for Version Control Systems like Bitbucket, GitHub, and GitLab, enhancing collaboration and code management for teams.
See Also
v11.7.5 - Release date: 08 July 2024
v11.7.4 - Release date: 01 July 2024
v11.7.3 - Release date: 17 June 2024