Sounds good to me, thanks for the heads up Andriy!

Freeman

On Sun, Nov 16, 2025 at 10:45 AM Andriy Redko <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
> >>>>> > > > > >
> >>>>> > > > > >
> >>>>> > > > > >
> >>>>> > > > >
> >>>>> > >
> >>>>>
>
>

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