Hello! I've just published a new Tapestry 5.8.0 snapshot, backward compatible with 5.7.x. Unless someone else objects, my plan is to invite feedback during the next few days and start a voting thread this weekend with still enough time to have a release before the holidays. You can check the changes directly at https://github.com/apache/tapestry-5/commits/master and look at the closed tickets at https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20TAP5%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%205.8.0. Of course, any fixes or improvements from feedback that may appear will be addressed in a 5.8.1 release
Main new feature is the REST support, as already described in a previous message to this ticket. https://github.com/thiagohp/tapestry-rest-example is a simple example you can checkout and run locally and quickly. Don't forget to take a look at the README. It doesn't use tapestry-rest-jackson yet, a new subproject/JAR which automates JSON <-> Java classes mappings using Jackson Databind, but I'll try to do that soon. The other new feature is support for Servlet API 3.0+ asynchronous requests. No examples for this yet, though. I'll also try adding documentation for both features to the Tapestry site during this week. All feedback of all kinds is more than welcome. Happy coding! -- Thiago
