I will help with testing Colin! Thanks a lot for all your effort
On Sun, Aug 11, 2024 at 1:31 PM Colin Alworth <[email protected]> wrote: > The 2.12 release seems to be almost ready - we're trying to do releases a > little more frequently when we have changes to be made, and this is going > to end up being about nine months after the 2.11 release. > > Considerations for this release: > * *Java 8 support is formally dropped* for running the compiler and dev > mode. It may continue to work for the server, but our testing here is light > - if it is important to you, please help with testing the early release to > be sure. > * *Java 17 language support has been added* - everything except > switch-expression is merged, consider reviewing/testing > https://github.com/gwtproject/gwt/pull/9981 to finalize that PR so we can > finish this aspect of the release. > * Several deprecated classes have been removed, and more still are now > marked deprecated and will be removed in a future release. These are likely > not used by your project, as most are unusable today anyway, but the change > can be reviewed here https://github.com/gwtproject/gwt/pull/9925 > * Browsers have deprecated the unload event, and GWT has been interfering > with some applications that don't directly use it. A PR is up to resolve > this, but could use testing from anyone who might be affected by this: > https://github.com/gwtproject/gwt/pull/9984 > * Sourcemap support has been updated - no major impact here aside from > dropping the need to use (a very old version of) protobufs in the server, > and supporting writing all source files as part of the sourcemap JSON file > rather than needing all source files copied to a server to be useful. > > Next steps: > * Help review, finalize the pending PRs. > * Let us know if there are other pending reviews or fixes that need to be > targeted to the 2.12 milestone. > * Test HEAD-SNAPSHOT builds to confirm no regressions in your own > projects (either download from the Sonatype snapshot repo, or download the > SDK zips from one of the builds at > https://github.com/gwtproject/gwt/actions/workflows/full-check.yml). > * In a week or so, volunteer for testing when a release is prepared. > * *If you need to run only on Java 8* and you need some of these > changes, help us start a separate release process for GWT 2.11.x. Many of > these changes can be backported, but we need assistance to make that work > happen. > > All commits since 2.11: > https://github.com/gwtproject/gwt/compare/2.11.0...main > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "GWT Contributors" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-web-toolkit-contributors/155bce20-d224-4b9f-8eea-98071d4547ccn%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-web-toolkit-contributors/155bce20-d224-4b9f-8eea-98071d4547ccn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GWT Contributors" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-web-toolkit-contributors/CA%2BkiFsfBnEgA9u4dVB2hJcu%2BS3Tr154289UxRDH82kdLOx6b6w%40mail.gmail.com.
