It is officially released. Maybe I/we forgot to update some site still? Just point me to the page you are missing something on and I gonna fix it.
txs and LieGrue, strub > Am 21.09.2015 um 09:44 schrieb Henno Vermeulen <he...@huizemolenaar.nl>: > > The documentation does list 2.4.0 as a release so I think they just forgot to > update the downloads page! > I'm no OpenJPA committer, perhaps they can give the "official" answer, but > here's our practical answer: > > We are using OpenJPA for a few years now. I can confirm from our experience > that the enhancer for OpenJPA 2.3.0 is not able to enhance classes that are > compiled with Java 8. It should be possible to compile with Java 7 and use a > Java 8 runtime, but we haven't tried this. > > We have been using 2.4.0 with Java 7 in production (around 20 users) for > quite a few months. We have very thorough tests that use OpenJPA and the > actual database. All of them were passing on 2.3.0 and Java 7 and are now > passing on 2.4.0 with either Java 7 or 8, so for us there are no new bugs in > 2.4.0 on top of Java 8. > > We actually started using Java 8 in production since this weekend, due to > extensive testing I'm confident everything works fine. I can't yet say > whether lambdas inside entities are working correctly, but I don't see why > they shouldn't. > > In short: I would say it's safe to use OpenJPA 2.4.0 and it won't be a > barrier to adopt Java 8. > If you encounter other barriers for Java 8 adoption, consider compiling with > Java 7 but running with a recent Java 8 JRE. > > Henno Vermeulen > > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: Talden [mailto:tal...@gmail.com] > Verzonden: vrijdag 18 september 2015 5:00 > Aan: users@openjpa.apache.org > Onderwerp: Is OpenJPA 2.4.0 is released or not > > OpenJPA 2.4.0 appears to be available on MavenCentral (Dated 2015-04-20) > > http://search.maven.org/#artifactdetails|org.apache.openjpa|openjpa|2.4.0|bundle > > In mailing list archives there's a call to vote (With votes up to > 2015-04-24) > > http://openjpa.208410.n2.nabble.com/VOTE-Release-Apache-OpenJPA-2-4-0-tt7587965.html#none > > But on the OpenJPA apache site the releases include only 2.3.0 > > > Is 2.4.0 officially released? > > Is the April 20th 2015 artefact in Maven Central (that pre-dates the vote) a > safe and valid build for production purposes? > > Am I correct that this version is required to enhance classes in a Java8 > runtime? A Java8 migration is highly desirable but wonder if OpenJPA will be > a barrier. > > If 2.4.0 was not officially released, is there a release coming? > > -- > Aaron Scott-Boddendijk
