[ANN] Apache Karaf OSGi Runtime 4.4.5 has been released!

[Jean-Baptiste Onofré]

The Apache Karaf team is pleased to announce the Apache Karaf OSGi
Runtime 4.4.5 release.

Apache Karaf runtime 4.4.5 is a maintenance release, bringing a lot of
dependency updates and fixes, especially:
-i solate config shell commands in a dedicated bundle to avoid refresh
and race condition at startup
- better JDK21 support with new ASM version (9.6)
- upgrade to Jetty 9.4.53.v20231009 and Pax Web 8.0.24
- upgrade to Pax Logging 2.2.6 supporting Log4j 2.22.1 and commons-logging 1.3.0
- fix webconsole plugins loading
- upgrade to sshd 2.11.0 fixing ecdsa key support
- ...

You can take a look on the Release Notes for details:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12311140=12353604

Apache Karaf OSGi Runtime 4.4.5 is available on Maven Central or here:
https://karaf.apache.org/download.html

Enjoy !
The Apache Karaf team

[RESULT][VOTE] Apache Karaf OSGi runtime 4.4.5 release

[Jean-Baptiste Onofré]

Hi,

this vote passed with the following result:

+1 (binding): Jamie Goodyear, Grzegorz Grzybek, François Papon,
Guillaume Nodet, JB Onofré
+1 (non binding): Jakub Herkel, Robert Varga, Steinar Bang

I'm promoting the artifacts on Maven Central and dist.apache.org, then
I will update Jira and the website, and then, I will do the
announcement.

Thanks all for your vote !

Regards
JB

On Sun, Jan 7, 2024 at 7:02 PM Jean-Baptiste Onofré  wrote:
>
> Hi guys,
>
> I submit Apache Karaf OSGi runtime 4.4.5 release to your vote.
>
> This release is a maintenance release bringing fixes and dependency
> updates, especially:
> - isolate config shell commands in a dedicated bundle to avoid refresh
> and race condition at startup
> - better JDK21 support with new ASM version (9.6)
> - upgrade to Jetty 9.4.53.v20231009 and Pax Web 8.0.24
> - fix webconsole plugins loading
> - upgrade to sshd 2.11.0 fixing ecdsa key support
>
> You can take a look on the Release Notes for details:
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12311140=12353604
>
> Maven Staging Repository:
> https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachekaraf-1190/
>
> Dist Staging Repository:
> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/karaf/4.4.5/
>
> Git tag:
> karaf-4.4.5
>
> Please vote to approve this release:
> [ ] +1 Approve the release
> [ ] -1 Don't approve the release (please provide specific comments)
>
> This vote will be open for at least 72 hours.
>
> Regards
> JB