It gives me great pleasure to announce the next major release of Radiance. The two main themes of this release are:

• Expanding on the foundational work of the previous release around color tokens
• Stability and bug fixes

Let’s get to what’s been fixed, and what’s been added. First, I’m going to use emojis to mark different parts of it like this:

 marks an incompatible API / binary change
 marks new features
 marks bug fixes and general improvements

Theming

• Modernizing the API of outline painters, unlocking the ability to use thicker strokes, multiple nested outlines, custom gradients, etc.
• Revisit the lifecycle of panel-based renderers to take advantage of the new color token APIs
• A more targeted and flexible way to configure button shapes
• Tweaking the API for painting focus indication
• Tweaking the API for configuring the menu search widget
• Add component token overrides driven by system color tokens
• Add surface and outline painter overlays
• Add surface and outline painters for luminous glass look
• More flexible logic for positioning the window title pane text
• Align visuals of sliders to those of progress bars
• Fix padding and alignment of combobox arrows
• Fix issues with setting custom window title pane buttons provider during app initialization
• Fix crash in scrollable tables

Components

• Fix the sizing logic of command button popup icons under large font sizes
• Fix the text color of ribbon keytips under some skins
• Fix paddings around command button popup icons
• Fix issues with scaling the ribbon under large fonts
• Fix content alignment in the color selector popup menu
• Fix visibility of ribbon keytips in decorated mode

Radiance focuses on helping you make elegant and high-performing desktop applications in Swing. If you’re in the business of writing just such apps, I’d love for you to take this Radiance release for a spin. Click here to get the instructions on how to add Radiance to your builds.