Hi all,
Although Daffodil 3.11.0 was release fairly recently, the current main branch of
Daffodil has a number of major improvements, including switching to Scala 3,
dropping official support for Java 8 and 11, a much improved API, and a number
of important bug fixes. With these major changes complete, I think now would be
a good time to release Daffodil 4.0.0.
For reference, here is a page that describes all the breaking changes and how to
migrate to the new API:
https://daffodil.apache.org/migration-guides/4.0.0/
We should also plan to release the Daffodil SBT plugin 1.5.0 concurrently, since
it has modifications needed to work with Daffodil 4.0.0.
There are a dozen or so open pull requests to update dependencies that I think
we can merge in the coming days in time for 4.0.0. Please let us know if there
are any other issues you think should be fixed.
If there are no additional changes or objections, I will volunteer as the
release manager and plan to start the vote on Monday, Sep 8.
Thanks,
- Steve
