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- Unified DataBoundComponent interface which is implemented by DynamicForm, ListGrid, TreeGrid, Menu, ColumnTree, TileGrid, DetailViewer and Calendar.

- Consistent representation of a Record which can be used by any DataBoundComponent

- Support for GWT-RPC DataSource with DataBoundComponents

- Various component and skin performance improvements

- Formula and Summary fields:
built-in wizards for end users to define formula fields that can
compute values using other fields, or summary fields that can combine
other fields with intervening / surrounding text. Available in all
DataBoundComponents, easy to persist as preferences

- I18n support with resource bundles from 14 locales

- Significant improvements to Javadocs with tons of documentation on various concepts. (over 30MB on disk)

- API's to save and restore the display and selection state of various components to/from the server

- Automatic databound dragging
behaviors: grids and trees will now inspect data relations declared in
DataSources and automatically “do the right thing” for a databound drag

- Numerous enhancements. See the detailed API Changes document

- Over 50 additional enhancements and bug fixes that were logged in tracker

- Several new events and extension points on various components to allow advanced usage

- A helloworld-1.6 starter project for SmartGWT with GWT 1.6

- Several new examples in the SmartGWT Showcase (see "New Samples" side nav item in the Showcase)

Key API's added

DateUtil

- Ability to globally set the Date input and rendered formats across the application

DataBoundComponent

- ability to select / deselect records, fetch / filter data and carry out various other operations on any DataBoundComponent

DataSource and DataSourceField

- ability to specify custom field value extractor logic for a given DataSourceField

- API's to control http caching and result batch size

- DataSourceField.setCanSortClientOnly

Window

- listeners for minimize, maximize, restore and close

Calendar

- support for customizing event edit dialog fields

- event remove listener

Forms

- convenience constructors for various FormItems

- support for customizing form field and title tooltips

- TextItem : support for character casing and entry restrictions (regexp based)

- TextItem : support for hints displayed in-field

- ComboBoxItem : fetchDelay setting

- AutoFitTextAreaItem: autofits to contained text as the user types

Column Tree (Miller Columns)

- added node selected listener

ListGrid

- Grouping modes: built-in and custom grouping modes, such as the ability to group a date column by week, day, month or year

- added header click listener

- added record drop listener

- ability to customize grid groupings by record values and also group title

- support for adding custom formula and summary fields on the fly

- ability to register custom handler to control visibility of a ListGridField

- added ListGridField.setCanFreeze, ListGridField.setCanSort

SectionStack (Accordion)

- added section header click event

TreeGrid

- added folder drop listener

- ability to override getIcon() / getNodeTitle() to allow users to have custom node icon / title logic