What is new in RichFaces 3.1.0

1. Ajax4jsf and Rich Faces are merged. Code base grouped into 3 jars: richfaces-api, richfaces-impl and richfaces-ui

2. The filter configuration becomes more flexible. It is possible to configure different filters for a different set of pages of the same application. In RichFaces 3.1.0 it’s not necessary to select between two different filters for the whole application. The possible types are: NONE, NEKO, TIDY. TIDY filter corrects the output html code. NEKO corresponds to the former "Fast Filter". NONE – no any correction, it is a responsibility to have it corrected.

3. The URI for a4j: and rich: namespaces are changed to "http://richfaces.org/a4j" and "http://richfaces.org/rich". The previous URIs are also available for a backward compatibility.

4. The following components (tags) are added:

• calendar

• dragListener

• dropListener

• effect

• virtualEarth

• insert

• message

• messages

• scrollableDataTable

• toolTip

• changeExpandListener

• nodeSelectListener

• recursiveTreeNodesAdaptor

• treeNodesAdaptor

• panelMenu

• panelMenuGroup

• panelMenuItem

5. Important Bugs fixed:

• RF-5 - The content of the rich components is not rendered if particular components are direct children

• RF-7 - SuggestionBox not working in IE

• RF-8 - Suggestion Box doesn't align correctly in IE

• RF-14 - iteration components show wrong data if they are pointed with ReRender

• RF-24 - NPE comes from Drag/Drop Support classes if a component is added, then removed from a UIComponent children collection

• RF-37 - dataTable is re-rendered incorrectly when the records are deleted

• RF-38 - a4j:include does not work as expected inside tabPanel

• RF-52 - modalPanel: ModalPanel via https. annoying warning appears

• RF-72 - h:commandLink does not work in rich:dataTable

• RF-111 - tree: Exception when user clicks a4:commandLink on the same page outside the Tree

• RF-154 - Suggestion does not appear for the second time

• RF-212 - rich:suggestionbox doesn't work inside  rich:simpleTogglePanel

• RF-233 - Suggestion Box : can't invoke suggestion in Opera

• RF-243 - Action Listener isn't invoked by DEFAULT on the menuItem

Feature requests:

• RF-4 - Add expression or the current row index of rich:dataTable

• RF-10 - Allow ajaxSingle for suggestionBox to make it possible to use other fields values in the suggestion action

• RF-11 - SuggestionBox: assign default values for width and height

• RF-15 - Add support for facets in rich:datascroller

• RF-32 - Add DnD parameters to dragIndicator

• RF-81 - suggestion box. Enable onsubmit to make it possible to discard an Ajax request

• RF-84 - Create RichFaces resources descriptors

• RF-87 - Tree - make selection submit on mouse up

• RF-102 - Tree - Need ability to disable a node selection

• RF-120 - datatablescroller: add align attribute

• RF-220 - tree: icon, leaf facets

6. Numerous other bug fixes and improvements tasks (Full list in the distribution archive)