As one would expect from ‘friday-the-thirteenth’ release, 1.0.7 included an accidental change of form list behavior. This caused NPEs in use cases which were legal before 1.0.7. In new release, old behavior is back. We are sorry for any inconvenience!
Another ‘friday-the-thirteenth’ stable branch update is available, including the brand-new TreeWidget that was backported from development branch. It is easy to use and very flexible.
Some minor issues were also fixed. Next week we hope to bring you the first milestone of Aranea 1.1 
Includes support for asynchronous form updates, meaning that values in forms living in one ’session thread’ can now be easily modified from other ’session thread’ or widget’s action listener; no more need to do awkward method calls for modified values to actually take effect. Also, memory based list implementation makes fewer calls to database.
Download from the usual place, full changelog here.
Stable update of Aranea was rolled out last Friday and is available from the usual place. See changelog and note that tags used by example applications have moved to their own separate TLD namespace; previously examples mixed standard tags (conventional namespace prefix ‘ui’) with template tags (now have namespace prefix ‘tui’) which got rather confusing for first-time users.
One of the main additions is a “blank” example application, which can be used to kickoff new projects easier.
Some problems with asynchronous modification of forms (from widget actions or session threads) have surfaced; we will address these in next update of stable branch.
Another maintenance release from Aranea 1.0 series. See changelog for details.
We also have first changes integrated into our upcoming 1.1 branch, and hope to present some nice surprises before christmas season.
Aranea RC2 is behaving well in projects that are using it currently. We have decided to postpone our final 1.0 release in favour of few more release candidates however—we feel that some areas of documentation are still seriously lacking and will not make final release until these shortcomings have been addressed. If our reader should have any comments on our current documentation, please do not hesitate to drop a mail or participate on our forums.
In third release candidate, FormElement Constraint internals have been rewritten (go hunt for new bugs), and documentation has received some minor updates. We hoped to do more docs, but I myself have supported migration of some Aranea-based projects to recent release candidate versions to ensure a bigger testbed, and Jevgeni has been busy polishing his JavaZone talk. Overall we are very happy because this week another developer, Alar, is joining us
Let us know about your gripes with Aranea documentation!
This is a bugfix and maintenance release following bigger refactors that were made for RC1 (aka “mostly-working-candidate”).
Important bugs fixed
Additionally lists LIKE filters have been rewritten, MessageContext has gotten some new methods and few minor renames took place (all documented in changelog). Javadoc has been substantially cleaned up and updated.
More updates due next week!
This milestone includes enhancements to UiLib, improved handling of internal class loading, means of communications between popups, extension defining mechanism, proper URL encoding to support cookieless session-tracking and crushed bugs.
When upgrading from earlier Aranea version be sure to read Changelog.txt included in a distribution for more detailed information. Also note the small change in mapping definition of Aranea dispatcher servlet (/servlet/* vs /servlet) which is required for FileImporter to work correctly.
In related news, Toomas has started his mandatory military service this week and will be back in eight months. We are eagerly awaiting for his return as a skilled multifunctional soldier. Rest of the Aranea Team is taking a two week vacation to freshly return at the end of July. After vacation the focus will be on enhancements to the Lists API and integration with other frameworks. Next release is planned for August and will be either release candidate or final release.