Hi Colin,

if you need some help, I'm feeling to help. 
Specially the jakarta stuff is important for us.
Do you find the time to have a look to the open PR?

BR
Rocco

Colin Alworth schrieb am Mittwoch, 17. Mai 2023 um 16:44:58 UTC+2:

> There have been a few suggestions of making a release in the near future, 
> and it seemed like it might be a good idea to summarize pending 
> development, ask for help to land these, and see if anything else needs to 
> be addressed before shipping.
>
>
>    - There is a pending branch (not yet a PR for GWT itself) working on 
>    adding a new gwt-servlet-jakarta.jar and requestfactory-server-jakarta.jar 
>    as part of https://github.com/gwtproject/gwt/issues/9727. There is no 
>    plan at this time to update the DevMode server to Jakarta, though that 
> will 
>    eventually be inevitable if we move to a newer version of Jetty. Work on 
>    this can be found at https://github.com/niloc132/gwt/pull/3.
>    - There is a pending fix for eliminating a false positive from using 
>    some internals of protobuf to deobfuscate client side exceptions 
>    https://github.com/gwtproject/gwt/pull/9785. This is probably safe to 
>    land without more testing, but none of the reporters of this bug have 
>    verified the fix.
>    - There's a pending fix for a bug in type unions, which can be caused 
>    by some ternary expressions and var type declarations 
>    https://github.com/gwtproject/gwt/pull/9799. A review found a few 
>    oversights in testing, and I'd appreciate another look.
>    - There's a pending fix for a bug where debugging in firefox when 
>    assertions are enabled (for example in SDM). It turns out the bug can 
>    happen in other cases too in more subtle ways. A draft fix it at 
>    https://github.com/gwtproject/gwt/pull/9800.
>    - GWT itself can now be built on Java 11, but not yet 17. There are a 
>    few changes pending that will permit this. Additionally, this will enable 
>    adding more Java 9-11 JRE emulation, see the list at 
>    https://github.com/gwtproject/gwt/issues/9547.
>
>
> Finally, we have an open question about future Java 8 support. Beyond this 
> release, we likely will no longer support running the compiler in Java 8, 
> which will enable adding support for Java 12-17 language features. We can 
> likely still build jars that will run on a Java 8 server, but just can't 
> compile newer JS. To that end, this 2.11 release branch may be longer-lived 
> than usual, depending on feedback and support to continue bugfix releases 
> after 2.12 eventually ships.
>
> Are there other changes that 2.11 should included, or other considerations 
> for this release cycle?
>

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