Hi, I have started a branch (srcR8) where ongoing work will be done to implement the future OSGi R8 Declarative Services spec updates. Apache Felix SCR implementation will remain the reference implementation for the Declarative Services. I plan to periodically publish snapshots of SCR out of this branch so they can be easily consumed by the OSGi build for the OSGi R8 specification development. I have updated the minor version of SCR to 2.2.0-SNAPSHOT in the scrR8 branch.
During development of the R8 implementation, the main branch at felix-dev will remain at version 2.1.x and continue to implement the OSGi R7 Declarative Services Specification. Needless to say, SCR R8 implementation will not be merged into the main branch until the OSGi R8 Declarative Services specification has been published as a proposed final draft (no I don't have a timeline for when that will be). Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks. Tom