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