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Updated Feb 1, 2012 by philippe.beaudoin

Version 0.7 Beta (02/01/2012)

Support for dynamic tabbed presenters with user data
More robust token formatter, tokens now survive in email
Support for GWT 2.4
Migrated the event system to com.google.web.bindery
Improved error reporting during code generation and for dispatcher
Improved documentation
Many bug fixes to the eclipse plugin
Numerous bug fixes and enhancements. See the complete list of closed issues, and the migration details.

Introduction of the GWTP Eclipse Plugin.
Support for search engine crawling.
Integration with Google Analytics.
Major refactoring of GWT generators, resulting in better error messages and more robustness. (See Issue 6.)
Fixed a bug with the TokenFormatter. (See Issue 286.)
Fixed a bug with navigation confirmation mechanism. (See Issue 291.)
Made it possible to reveal a place without changing the URL token, so the browser back button works when revealing an error place. (See Issue 274.)
More powerful notification system for internal asynchronous calls. (See Issue 308.)
Cleaned-up projects and Maven dependencies, resulting in a cleaner dependency graph and total separation of Guice and Spring dependent code.
Increased the quality of errors reported by annotation processors. (See Issue 318.)
Numerous bug fixes and enhancements. See the complete list of closed issues, and the migration details.

Full support for Spring on the backend for the dispatcher.
Dispatcher now supports client-side queuing, caching and handling of actions.
More flexible tabs with support for user-defined properties.
Various improvements to the annotation processors for automatic generation of events, actions and DTOs.
The project is now entirely built with Maven.
Separate jars for the different components of GWTP.
Numerous bug fixes and enhancements. See the complete list of closed issues, and the migration details.

Automatic generation of boilerplate code via annotation processors. See the documentation or the hplacesample for more information.
New manual reveal makes it possible to reveal pages only when the data they need has been fetched.
Dispatched actions can now be interrupted.
Major overhaul of the Presenter class hierarchy that gets rid of many problems when UnitTesting, improved naming convention.
The coding style is now clearly documented and the project uses checkstyle to enforce it.
The HasEventBus interface makes it possible to track the source of events when calling fireEvent.
Setup of a ContinuousIntegration server, and improved build process for releasing key versions and snapshots.
Other bug fixes and enhancements. See the complete list of closed issues, and the migration details.

Renamed package from com.philbeaudoin.gwtp to com.gwtplatform
Support for hierarchical places and breadcrumbs (including a small sample app)
Support for registering custom events in the proxy using @ProxyEvent, taking care of most cases that required custom proxys
Support for centralized and simplified internationalization via the mergelocales script
Replaced @PlaceInstance by @UseGatekeeper with a type-safe syntax.
Support for individually removing PresenterWidget from their parent.
Other bug fixes and enhancements. See the complete list of closed issues, and the migration details.

Renamed packages and classes and simplified the hierarchy, see PortingV1 for migration details
Support for simple server-side action validation, see IntroductionActionValidator
Support for per-action dispatch URLs
Integrated and simple protection against XSRF attacks
Support for undo operations

Support for nested tab presenters
Support for MVP dialog boxes and popup panels
Sample applications for nested presenters, tab presenters, dialog boxes and popups
Support for binding the same View class to multiple presenters
GWTP is now published on a Maven repository
Other bug fixes and enhancements. See the complete list of closed issues and the migration details.

Stable interfaces, these shouldn't change for V1.0. Changes will be documented in PortingV1.
Now using the standard Gin library (r137 with AsyncProvider).
Supports lifecycle hook PresenterWidgetImpl#onReset().
Presenter lifecycle hooks (onReveal, onHide, etc.) no longer exposed in the interface.
Released sample application available on https://samples.gwt-platform.googlecode.com/hg/.
Other bug fixes, see the complete list of closed issues.

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