Hi, As a followup to the Jackrabbit 1.6 release plan I sent earlier, here's a quick roadmap towards Jackrabbit 2.0.
Once the 1.x branch has been created on April 30th, we will upgrade the JCR dependency in trunk to the JCR 2.0 jar included in the JSR 283 proposed final draft. This will replace all the org.apache.jackrabbit.api.jsr283 extension interfaces we currently have in jackrabbit-api. At the same point we will also upgrade the required runtime platform to Java 5. This means that all Java 5 language and library features will then be available in Jackrabbit trunk. The 2.0 release also gives us a changes to drop deprecated features and introduce configuration and other backwards-incompatible changes that we normally wouldn't do in a minor release. However, any such change must come with a clear explanation in the 2.0 release notes. It can be expected that the trunk may be fairly unstable in May as a result of the JCR 2.0 upgrade and other changes. If you're using the Jackrabbit trunk for anything else than development or testing, it's probably a good idea to follow the 1.x branch instead until the JCR 2.0 work has stabilized. The JSR 283 RI and TCK will be branched off from the Jackrabbit trunk at some point after both codebases have reached reasonable feature-completeness. After that, once the JSR 283 is final, we will upgrade the JCR 2.0 API dependency from the proposed final draft to the final version and focus on stabilizing the trunk for the Jackrabbit 2.0 release. I'll keep you posted as more details of these milestones and expected schedules become available. BR, Jukka Zitting
