Hi, This has been hinted at in the past, but is not being discussed anymore.
Possible options: a) Release a new 8.x branch that would include the connectors from 9 to support HTTP/2 [OpenSSL now allows realistic support without having to wait for Java 9], and thus would remove a few legacy items. b) A more radical option is to use 9 as 8.x but remove the Servlet API changes. This would force Java 8 and many incompatible changes. c) Give up on 8.x and instead release 9 as beta, then stable, with an explicit exception about the Servlet 4 API additions being "preview" until further notice. That's probably the solution which involves the least effort by far. d) Nothing. No 8.x release. 9 will be released sometimes in 2017 when Servlet 4 is released. The main issue is that there's no HTTP/2 support until then. The longer we wait, the more a major release will conflict with the "intuitive" 9 release cycle in 2017. Comments ? Rémy
