Hey Folks!
With releases mostly done (thanks a lot Freeman for taking care of that), let
us
plan for 4.2.0 (if there are no objections). Few things here I would like to
highlight
and get everyone's thoughts:
- merge [1] into main (and cut 4.1.x branch): the pull request is a bit large
(half of
the changes are POM files), but it is in a good shape, the tests are green,
please take a
look folks
- the JDK baseline for 4.2.x: I originally suggested JDK-21 but we got some
asks from
other projects (like Tomcat fe) to stay on JDK-17, the [1] is using JDK-17
baseline now but
builds with JDK-21 at minimum (we have some dependencies like Apache Lucene,
Apache Derby,
that need JDK-21)
- also, would be good to move to Jackson 3.x with CXF 4.2.x, it does not mean
we will
not support Jackson 2.x, just we would be using 3.x in our codebase, I do have
draft for it
but it builds on top of [1]
I don't see any other major blockers or concerns, if the plan looks good to
everyone, we
should be able to release 4.2.0 before the end of the year (fingers crossed).
Thoughts?
Thank a lot everyone!
[1] https://github.com/apache/cxf/pull/2473
PS: I will be sparsely available next week, would definitely reply but with
delays, sorry
about that in advance.
Best Regards,
Andriy Redko
Tuesday, November 11, 2025, 2:32:01 PM, you wrote:
> Thanks Andriy, I'm gonna start the release build now.
> Best Regards
> Freeman
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM Andriy Redko <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi Freeman,
>> I've just merged the last outstanding issue, waiting for the builds but I
>> think we should be good to go with releases and vote. Thank you!
>> Best Regards,
>> Andriy Redko
>> On Tue, Nov 11, 2025, 9:40 a.m. Freeman Fang <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Hi Andriy,
>>> I hope you are doing well!
>>> I am reaching out to see if I can start building the release the second
>>> half of this week(like Thursday)? I hate rush but our quarkus-cxf friends
>>> expect CXF 4.1.4 release out before Nov 19, do you think this is possible
>>> at this point?
>>> Thanks again for your help(always) and hard work for community!
>>> Best Regards
>>> Freeman
>>> On Wed, Nov 5, 2025 at 9:47 AM Andriy Redko <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Awesome, thanks Colm, I will try to wrap up two issues (both have pull
>>>> requests) before the end of the week and call for releases. Thanks a lot!
>>>> On Wed, Nov 5, 2025, 9:23 a.m. Colm O hEigeartaigh <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> The releases are done and applied to CXF, we're good to go on my side.
>>>>>
>>>>> Colm.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM Andriy Redko <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Thanks for the update, Colm!
>>>>> >
>>>>> > On Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 11:30 a.m. Colm O hEigeartaigh <
>>>>> [email protected]>
>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>> >
>>>>> > > I've called votes on WSS4J x 2 and XML Schema, I hope to release early
>>>>> > > next week once I round up sufficient votes...
>>>>> > >
>>>>> > > Colm.
>>>>> > >
>>>>> > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2025 at 11:47 AM Andriy Redko <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> > > >
>>>>> > > > Hi Colm,
>>>>> > > >
>>>>> > > > Thanks a lot for heads up! Sure, we'll hold on the releases, thanks
>>>>> for
>>>>> > > > taking care of WSS4J part.
>>>>> > > >
>>>>> > > > Best Regards,
>>>>> > > > Andriy Redko
>>>>> > > >
>>>>> > > >
>>>>> > > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2025, 6:25 a.m. Colm O hEigeartaigh <
>>>>> [email protected]
>>>>> > > >
>>>>> > > > wrote:
>>>>> > > >
>>>>> > > > > Hi Andriy,
>>>>> > > > >
>>>>> > > > > I noticed there was a CVE creeping in via WSS4J, so I will try to
>>>>> get
>>>>> > > new
>>>>> > > > > releases voted on by next week at the latest, if we can wait for
>>>>> the
>>>>> > > CXF
>>>>> > > > > releases until then. There hasn't been a release of XML Schema in
>>>>> ages
>>>>> > > > > either so I'll try to do that at the same time.
>>>>> > > > >
>>>>> > > > > Colm.
>>>>> > > > >
>>>>> > > > > On 2025/10/12 13:54:03 Andriy Redko wrote:
>>>>> > > > > > Hey Folks!
>>>>> > > > > >
>>>>> > > > > > It's been a while since we dropped last release bits, I would
>>>>> suggest
>>>>> > > > > > to kick of new releases next weeks, plus I would love to hear
>>>>> your
>>>>> > > > > opinion
>>>>> > > > > > on larger plans.
>>>>> > > > > >
>>>>> > > > > > Back to releases, I would like to initiate next week:
>>>>> > > > > > - cxf-build-tools
>>>>> > > > > > - cxf-xjc-utils
>>>>> > > > > >
>>>>> > > > > > And if no blockers / objections, CXF releases 3.6.x / 4.0.x /
>>>>> 4.1.x
>>>>> > > > > right
>>>>> > > > > > after next week.
>>>>> > > > > >
>>>>> > > > > > On the larger plans, I've been working on Jakarta EE 11 support
>>>>> [1],
>>>>> > > > > [2], by
>>>>> > > > > > and large we are in a good shape here, there are few test cases
>>>>> left
>>>>> > > to
>>>>> > > > > fix and I
>>>>> > > > > > am working on them. I would like to suggest switching `main` to
>>>>> 4.2.0
>>>>> > > > > and merge
>>>>> > > > > > Jakarta EE 11 right after new releases (the pull request is
>>>>> getting
>>>>> > > > > large). It
>>>>> > > > > > would also allow more of us to work on fixing any issues and
>>>>> > > targeting
>>>>> > > > > > improvements in parallel, with tentative release date to be end
>>>>> of
>>>>> > > Nov /
>>>>> > > > > Dec.
>>>>> > > > > >
>>>>> > > > > > Would love to hear your thoughts folks.
>>>>> > > > > > Thank you!
>>>>> > > > > >
>>>>> > > > > > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CXF-8828
>>>>> > > > > > [2] https://github.com/apache/cxf/pull/2473
>>>>> > > > > >
>>>>> > > > > > Best Regards,
>>>>> > > > > > Andriy Redko
>>>>> > > > > >
>>>>> > > > > >
>>>>> > > > > >
>>>>> > > > >
>>>>> > >
>>>>>
