GWT 2.8.0 released

Hi all, I am very happy to announce GWT 2.8.0 on behalf of the GWT steering committee and the GWT team at Google. You can download the release from http://www.gwtproject.org/download.html or from maven central. The release notes can be found at http://www.gwtproject.org/release-notes.html#Rel

GWT 2.8.0 RC2 is here!

Hi all, I just build the GWT 2.8.0 RC2 and pushed it to maven central. The complete SDK is also available from here . Please start testing and let us know if you run into any trouble and file bugs . We are planing to release

2.8.0 RC1 is here!

Hi all, I just build the GWT 2.8.0 RC1 and pushed it to maven central. The complete SDK is also available from here . Please start testing and let us know if you run into any trouble. You can either reply to this thread on gwt-contrib

Re: GWT no longer working with Chrome 49

About production issue: Are you sure about this? It's less likely to happen in production since many clinit calls will have been stripped by the compiler, but its probably still going to happen. About development: Is there actually a global try catch in your code or is this even something else?

Re: GWT no longer working with Chrome 49

Hi, Chrome 49 enabled lots of ES6 features, see: http://v8project.blogspot.de/2016/01/v8-release-49.html Part of this is the so called sloppy function hosting. A simple example: ES5 (old semantics) ES2015 (new semantics) Code try { function foo() { foo=function(){}; console.log('