Category: Product
Say hello to Vaadin 24.5! This release brings exciting new capabilities to the platform, including the Vaadin Control Center for managing apps in production and automatic user management without extra development. You'll also find the Vaadin Modernization Toolkit for seamless migration from older Vaadin versions or Java Swing, as well as Flow support in Vaadin Copilot, which automates repetitive coding tasks. Plus, you can now import designs directly from Figma, making UI development easier than ever. See what’s new below!
Introducing Vaadin Control Center: The DevOps tool for managing and scaling Java apps on Kubernetes
We’re excited to introduce the very first public preview of Vaadin Control Center—a powerful DevOps tool for Java developers deploying on Kubernetes. It simplifies the operation of Vaadin apps in production, seamlessly integrating with both new and existing Java applications, so you can deploy, ...
Collaboration Kit is now free and open source
In 2020, we embarked on developing modern collaborative functionalities for your Vaadin applications, tackling the challenges of managing UI state changes and synchronization and ensuring every update efficiently reaches the appropriate users. Our journey has been a learning curve—enhanced by user ...
Introducing Vaadin Copilot – Your AI assistant for UI development
We are thrilled to announce the launch of Vaadin Copilot, an AI-enhanced visual UI editor designed for developers by developers. Vaadin Copilot aims to transform how we approach UI development by providing a seamless integration between coding and visual editing. Starting with the Vaadin 24.5 ...
Vaadin 24.4 opens the door to the land of React
One prominent theme in Vaadin 24.4 is integration with React in various forms. React has grown in popularity to the point where it's currently the most popular UI rendering library for web applications. This means that there's excellent availability of third-party components, learning resources, ...
Hilla is now an integrated part of the Vaadin platform
I'm happy to announce that we're bringing Hilla back under the Vaadin brand as a part of the Vaadin platform. In addition, we're making it more convenient to configure routing so that new view files are automatically registered as routes. Finally, we'll start recommending signals for UI state ...
Fighting for simplicity with Vaadin 24.4
Twenty-four years ago, we founded Vaadin with the mission to simplify the development of business applications. Thanks to advancements in web and Java platforms, the development experience has improved significantly. However, many challenges persist; creating an outstanding business app for the web ...
Free support for Vaadin 14 is ending. What’s next?
After five years of free support, Vaadin 14 will reach its end of life on August 14th, 2024. While applications developed with the unsupported framework will continue to run, security updates, compatibility patches, and other bug fixes will no longer be available for the underlying platform. Please ...
From desktop to web: Upgrade Java apps with Vaadin Toolkit
Migrating Java desktop applications to the web has never been easier with Vaadin. Leveraging Java, Vaadin has become the go-to choice for transitioning applications built with frameworks like Swing to modern web applications. Inspired by the experience of many organizations making the journey to ...
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What's next for Vaadin 23 users as free support ends?
As highlighted in our roadmap, free support for Vaadin 23 will conclude on July 11th, 2024. From Vaadin 23 and Hilla 1 onwards, our simpler release model ensures that all major versions receive free support for one year after the release of a new major version. We're committed to helping with ...