We're still in the "please help us review the last few merges" phase 
(especially looking for notes on deprecating using DevMode as an app 
server, and comments on if tests added for other PRs seem sufficient), then 
we'll make some release artifacts (late next week is my guess). I'm hoping 
to merge most of the open PRs, so we want to not start testing until we've 
landed that changes that will make this release.

That being said, we ship HEAD-SNAPSHOT every night off of main, you can add 
https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/ as a snapshot 
repository to your project to use that build (be certain you are using 
org.gwtproject groupids). If you need nightly download zips, they are 
available at 
https://github.com/gwtproject/gwt/actions/workflows/full-check.yml, click 
any build, scroll down artifacts, and download gwt-java17.zip. While this 
was built with Java 17, it is compatible with Java 8+ and will be used for 
the release. The other builds should be nearly identical - the main change 
should be in the javadoc output. The build produced from Java8 is 
substantially smaller since it doesn't include javadoc at all, since the 
APIs we now use are not compatible there.

On Thursday, November 23, 2023 at 7:36:55 AM UTC-6 Juan Pablo Gardella 
wrote:

> Hello, is gwt-2.11 artifacts available somewhere for testing against the 
> applications I am currently working on?
>
> On Tue, Nov 14, 2023, 11:37 PM Colin Alworth <nilo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> It has taken longer than we had hoped, but I think we're just about ready 
>> - GWT itself can build on Java 17 (and can run on Java 23), JRE emulation 
>> is nearly caught up to where we wanted with Java 11, and jakarta.servlet 
>> support is hopefully finished and partially tested in non-trivial apps.
>>
>> Here's my view of what might land before we cut a release:
>>
>>    - The jakarta.servlet patch is now at 
>>    https://github.com/gwtproject/gwt/pull/9845, and is effectively ready 
>>    to land. To my knowledge, no jakarta project has tested the 
>>    requestfactory-*.jars yet.
>>    - As above, we need confirmation that 
>>    https://github.com/gwtproject/gwt/pull/9785 solves the problem it was 
>>    created for.
>>    - As above https://github.com/gwtproject/gwt/pull/9799 (fixing some 
>>    ternary expressions and other type unions) should get at least one more 
>>    review, approval. This will be applicable for Java 17 language support.
>>    - Two more JRE emulation patches: 
>>    https://github.com/gwtproject/gwt/pull/9860 needs a review, and 
>>    https://github.com/gwtproject/gwt/pull/9862 needs follow-up and 
>>    another review.
>>    
>> If this is the last release that can run the compiler and dev mode on 
>> Java 8, we will want to update Jetty in the next release as well. That 
>> might suggest one more change, deprecating the use of "-server" in DevMode. 
>> Please see https://github.com/gwtproject/gwt/issues/9863 for more 
>> details. In the coming days I'll put together a patch for this.
>>
>> After we've merged or deferred these PRs, the next step will be asking 
>> for testing volunteers and cutting an RC release. I'm hoping we can begin 
>> that process within two weeks - if you're interested in helping us test 
>> this release, please reply to this message or directly with the 
>> OS/JVM/Browsers you have at your disposal, and I'll make sure you are 
>> included. As usual, the testing process will probably take a week or so to 
>> get the desired coverage, and then we'll formally release GWT 2.11.0.
>>
>> On Tuesday, May 23, 2023 at 3:11:51 PM UTC-5 Rocco De Angelis wrote:
>>
>>> 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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