This is a great opportunity to have 7.x users upgrade to TomEE 8.x before Tomcat 8.5.x reaches EOL. Plus that would make only one Branch on the javax namespace instead of three, surely easing maintenance.
On Thu 28 Jul 2022 at 14:24, Zowalla, Richard < richard.zowa...@hs-heilbronn.de> wrote: > Hi, > > we had a discussion regarding a release of TomEE 7.1.x in April 22 [1]. > After the discussion I fixed the CI build and updated some dependencies > mentioned in the discussion. > > The (current) changelog looks like: > > Bug > [TOMEE-2125] - Datasource config: MaxWait, > timeBetweenEvictionRunsMillis and MinEvictableIdleTimeMillis are > ignored > [TOMEE-2919] - java.util.ConcurrentModificationException error > deploying ear in TomEE Plus 7.1.4 > [TOMEE-2968] - Postgres connection error when a password contains "}" > [TOMEE-3718] - Missing mime mappings > > Improvement > [TOMEE-2957] - Fix OWASP Checks on ASF Jenkins Environment > [TOMEE-2973] - TomEE :: Examples :: JSF2/CDI/BV/JPA/DeltaSpike uses too > old version of commons-lang3 > > Dependency upgrade > [TOMEE-2939] - Update bcprov-jdk15on to 1.67 > [TOMEE-2958] - Update to Tomcat 8.5.61 > [TOMEE-2959] - Update to jackson 2.12.0 > [TOMEE-2979] - Upgrade to MyFaces 2.2.14 > [TOMEE-3719] - Upgrade to commons-io to 2.8 > [TOMEE-3772] - Update JUnit to 4.13.2 > [TOMEE-3941] - Apache ActiveMQ 5.16.5 > [TOMEE-3985] - Upgrade BatchEE to 1.0.2 > [TOMEE-4016] - Myfaces 2.2.15 > [TOMEE-4017] - Tomcat 8.5.81 > [TOMEE-4018] - Update bcprov-jdk15on to 1.70 > > The full build [2] for 7.1.x is green atm. So the question to discuss > would be: Do we want to do a release? > > Side note: This could be an opportunity to "officially" announce 7.1.5 > as the "last" release (eoling the 7.1.x series) + place a info box on > the download pages for 1.7.x, 7.0.x and 7.1.x. > > Maintaining 8.x, 9.x (and other branches) might drain to much resources > and interest in providing patches / dependency updates for 7.1.x or > 7.0.x was generally low in the last year(s). > > What do you think? > > Gruß > Richard > > [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread/sz0kfocgd6248l2vxxgv3wjc5snh79q6 > [2] https://ci-builds.apache.org/job/Tomee/job/tomee-7.1.x/ > > >
