Feathers UI Blog

Feathers UI v1.3.1: A ton of bug fixes

2026-06-15T07:00:00Z

Today, Feathers UI v1.3.1 is now officially available on Haxelib. This is a patch release that includes a ton of bug fixes. It's been quite a while since the previous version, and I need a bit more time to finish up documentation for the new...

Moonshine.dev introduces a Feathers UI drag-and-drop visual designer and MXHX markup

2024-11-21T08:00:00Z

After many months of collaboration with the Moonshine IDE team, I'm excited to help introduce their new project, Moonshine.dev. In particular, I'd love for you to take a moment to try out Moonshine.dev's visual form designer. You can drag-and-drop Feathers UI controls into the design...

Feathers UI v1.3 — Drag-and-drop, Collapsible component, dispose() method, and tons of bugs fixed

2024-08-01T07:00:00Z

Today, Feathers UI v1.3.0 is now officially available on Haxelib. This release includes a new DragDropManager used by components like ListView and GridView, a new

Feathers UI v1.2 — Big performance boosts

2023-06-01T07:00:00Z

Today, Feathers UI v1.2.0 is now officially available on Haxelib. This release includes a ton of great performance optimizations (especially for scrolling containers), support for the Haxe 4.3...

Feathers UI v1.1 release for Haxe and OpenFL

2023-03-17T07:00:00Z

Today, Feathers UI v1.1.0 is now officially available on Haxelib. This is the first update after the initial stable 1.0 release of the library. It includes a number of new features, and a variety of bug fixes for various components. There are no...

What a journey! The conclusion of Feathers UI v1.0 Release Week

2022-09-16T07:00:00Z

We've finally reached the conclusion of what I've been calling Feathers UI Release Week. In fact, it's been two full weeks of celebration. It all started out with the big release of Feathers UI...

String Formatters 1.0 for Feathers UI

2022-09-16T07:00:00Z

Today, I'm happy to introduce version 1.0 of the new feathersui-formatters open source project, which is a port of the string formatting classes from Apache Flex (formerly Adobe Flex) to

Form Validators 1.0 for Feathers UI

2022-09-15T07:00:00Z

Today, I'm happy to introduce version 1.0 of the new feathersui-validators open source project, which is a port of the form validation classes from Apache Flex (formerly Adobe Flex) to

PureMVC demos for Feathers UI and OpenFL

2022-09-14T07:00:00Z

PureMVC is an architectural framework built using Model-View-Controller and other software design patterns — and you can use it with most...

OpenFL Plugin for Vite 1.0

2022-09-13T07:00:00Z

Vite is a relatively new build tool in the JavaScript and web ecosystem that's growing in popularity, and organizations that use Vite may want to integrate an OpenFL or Feathers UI frontend into their existing build...

Cairngorm 1.0 MVC framework for Feathers UI

2022-09-12T07:00:00Z

Today, I'm happy to introduce version 1.0 of the new feathersui-cairngorm open source project, which is a port of the Cairngorm MVC framework from Apache Flex (formerly Adobe Flex) to

Webpack OpenFL Loader 1.0

2022-09-09T07:00:00Z

Webpack is a very popular build tool in the JavaScript and web ecosystem, and organizations that use Webpack may want to integrate an OpenFL or Feathers UI frontend into their existing build process. With that in...

RPC Services 1.0 for Feathers UI

2022-09-08T07:00:00Z

Today, I'm happy to introduce version 1.0 of the new feathersui-rpc-services open source project, which is a port of the RPC service classes from Apache Flex (formerly Adobe Flex) to Feathers UI,

Lime and OpenFL Maven Plugin 1.0

2022-09-07T07:00:00Z

Apache Maven is a very popular build tool in the Java ecosystem, and organizations that use Maven may want to integrate an OpenFL or Feathers UI frontend into their existing build process. With that in mind,...

amfio 1.0 — AMF0/AMF3 and SharedObject library for OpenFL

2022-09-06T07:00:00Z

Today, I'm happy to introduce version 1.0 of the new amfio open source project, which allows reading and writing AMF data using the ByteArray class from

Feathers UI version 1.0 for Haxe and OpenFL

2022-09-01T07:00:00Z

Today, Feathers UI v1.0.0 is now officially available on Haxelib. This is the first stable, major release of the library after three years of effort porting the original Starling codebase to OpenFL and

Feathers UI 1.0 Release Candidate 2

2022-06-15T07:00:00Z

Today, Feathers UI v1.0.0-rc.2 is now officially available on Haxelib. If all goes well, the stable 1.0 release should happen in July. The current plan is to wait until updates for both OpenFL and

Josh Tynjala, creator of Feathers UI, joins OpenFL leadership team

2022-05-13T07:00:00Z

Recently, Joshua Granick, long-time leader of the OpenFL project, asked Josh Tynjala of Feathers UI and Chris Speciale of Dimensionscape to join him in forming a new

Feathers UI 1.0 Release Candidate

2022-05-13T07:00:00Z

Today, Feathers UI v1.0.0-rc.1 is now officially available on Haxelib. If all goes well, the stable 1.0 release should happen by the end of June, or possibly in early July. The current plan is to wait until updates for both

Feathers UI beta.9 preview build on Haxelib

2022-02-25T08:00:00Z

Today, Feathers UI beta.9 is now officially available on Haxelib. This is the final beta build before the first stable release of Feathers UI for Haxe and OpenFL. The next build should be Release Candidate 1 (rc.1), which will...

Feathers UI beta.8 preview build on Haxelib

2022-01-06T08:00:00Z

Today, Feathers UI beta.8 is now officially available on Haxelib. This is the latest of multiple preview builds that are planned before the first stable release in the first half of 2022. Since we're in the beta stage, the core framework...

Moonshine IDE's code editor powered by Feathers UI

2021-11-09T08:00:00Z

Over the last year or so, the team working on Moonshine IDE have been converting the application's interface to run on Feathers UI. In the recent 3.2 update of Moonshine, the IDE includes an all new code editor — rewritten in Haxe as a...

Feathers UI beta.7 preview build on Haxelib

2021-11-02T07:00:00Z

Today, Feathers UI beta.7 is now officially available on Haxelib. This is the latest of multiple preview builds that are planned before the first stable release in early 2022. Since we're in the beta stage, the core framework architecture has...

Feathers UI beta.6 preview build on Haxelib

2021-10-05T07:00:00Z

Today, Feathers UI beta.6 is now officially available on Haxelib. This is the latest of multiple preview builds that are planned before the first stable release in early 2022. Since we're in the beta stage, the core framework architecture has...

Kickstarter Devlog Roundup: August 2021

2021-08-25T07:00:00Z

Every three to four weeks, I've been posting updates on Kickstarter that summarize what I've been adding to the Haxe/OpenFL version of Feathers UI...

Feathers UI beta.5 preview build on Haxelib

2021-08-24T07:00:00Z

Today, Feathers UI beta.5 is now officially available on Haxelib. This is the latest of multiple preview builds that are planned before the first stable release in early 2022. Since we're in the beta stage, the core framework architecture has...

Feathers UI beta.4 preview build on Haxelib

2021-07-14T07:00:00Z

Today, Feathers UI beta.4 is now officially available on Haxelib. This is the latest of multiple preview builds that are planned before the first stable release in early 2022. Since we're in the beta stage, the core framework architecture has...

Kickstarter Devlog Roundup: April 2021

2021-04-19T07:00:00Z

Every three to four weeks, I've been posting updates on Kickstarter that summarize what I've been adding to the Haxe/OpenFL version of Feathers UI...

Feathers UI beta.3 preview build on Haxelib

2021-04-12T07:00:00Z

Today, Feathers UI beta.3 is now officially available on Haxelib. This is the latest of multiple preview builds that are planned before the first stable release in early 2022. Since we're in the beta stage, the core framework architecture has...

Support Feathers UI on Github Sponsors

2021-02-03T08:00:00Z

From time to time, people ask how they can send a little thank you donation to the Feathers UI open source project. Feathers UI is a cross-platform GUI framework for building mobile, desktop, and web apps (native and GPU-accelerated).

Starting today, the best way to help out is to

Feathers UI beta.2 preview build on Haxelib

2020-12-08T08:00:00Z

Today, Feathers UI beta.2 is now officially available on Haxelib. This is the latest of multiple preview builds that are planned before the first stable release in early 2022. We've now made it past the alpha stage, which means that the core...

Feathers UI beta.1 preview build on Haxelib

2020-11-16T08:00:00Z

Today, Feathers UI beta.1 is now officially available on Haxelib. This is the latest of multiple preview builds that are planned before the first stable release in early 2022. We've now made it past the alpha stage, which means that the core...

Feathers UI alpha.3 preview build on Haxelib

2020-08-20T07:00:00Z

Today, Feathers UI alpha.3 is now officially available on Haxelib. This is the third of multiple preview builds that are planned for 2020. These preview builds are intended to give the community an opportunity to see how development of Feathers UI is...

Feathers UI extensions for Visual Studio Code

2020-06-23T07:00:00Z

Visual Studio Code is one of the best editors for Haxe and OpenFL development today. Obviously, that makes it one of the best editors for Feathers UI development too. Today,...

Feathers UI alpha.2 preview build on Haxelib

2020-06-23T07:00:00Z

Today, Feathers UI alpha.2 is now officially available on Haxelib. This is the second of multiple preview builds that are planned for 2020. These preview builds are intended to give the community an opportunity to see how development of Feathers UI is...

Kickstarter Devlog Roundup 3: May 2020

2020-05-04T07:00:00Z

Every three to four weeks, I've been posting updates on Kickstarter that summarize what I've been adding to the Haxe/OpenFL version of Feathers UI...

Feathers UI alpha preview build on Haxelib (v1.0.0-alpha.1)

2020-02-04T08:00:00Z

Today, for very the first time, Feathers UI may be installed from Haxelib. This is the first of multiple preview builds that are planned for 2020. These preview builds are intended to give the community an opportunity to see how development of Feathers UI is progressing —...

Kickstarter Devlog Roundup 2: January 2020

2020-01-07T08:00:00Z

Every three to four weeks, I've been posting updates on Kickstarter that summarize what I've been adding to the Haxe/OpenFL version of Feathers UI...

Kickstarter Devlog Roundup: October 2019

2019-10-15T07:00:00Z

Every three to four weeks, I've been posting updates on Kickstarter that summarize what I've been adding to the Haxe/OpenFL version of Feathers UI...

Introducing the Feathers UI Blog

2019-07-30T07:00:00Z

Today, I'm launching a new blog for the latest announcements about Feathers UI. Let's start with a link roundup of the various new things that have been introduced since the Kickstarter for the Haxe/OpenFL...

Feathers UI for Haxe and OpenFL

2019-04-02T07:00:00Z

Feathers community,

In the next couple of months, I will officially launch a crowdfunding campaign for an all new version of Feathers UI — rebuilt on Haxe and OpenFL. If I already have your interest,