Announcing ControlsFX 8.0.3
I am incredibly pleased to announce on behalf of the entire ControlsFX team that ControlsFX 8.0.3 is now ready for download! This release comes approximately two months after the 8.0.2 release, and is a major release. For those too impatient to read the details, go here to download the release (or as always it is also available via Maven Central – just update your dependencies to 8.0.3). For those unfamiliar with the features of ControlsFX, refer to the features page. With that out of the way, let’s get into the juicy details of this release! 🙂
Firstly, it goes without saying that this release was a team effort, including input from the following people: Eugene Ryzhikov, Samir Hadzic, Henri Biestro, Dirk Lemmermann, Tomas Mikula, ‘Badisi’, Jean-François Henrard, and Danno Ferrin. It is due to these fine folks hard work that we have this release today!
Secondly, the reason why this release is two months in the making rather than the usual one month cycle is that we decided to improve the ControlsFX sampler program. It is now more generic (it is a totally separate application now), and because of this we are able to support other third party JavaFX projects. What this means is that other projects (such as JFXtras, for example) can now use the FXSampler app to demonstrate their own features, which saves them from having to write their own sample app. The ControlsFX team is more than happy to help other third party projects to make use of the FXSampler framework, just reach out to us in our Google groups. As of now the JFXtras team is already in the process of porting their samples to use this new framework.
