Great feedback. Keeps me motivated :) Every time I embark on a coding cycle resulting in a lot of breaking changes, I'm like "the end result seems great, but then a bunch of people are going to get confused and have to re-learn stuff" :) And there are still a lot of candidates left.
> On Aug 25, 2026, at 4:51 PM, Hugi Thordarson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Awesome! > > First, thanks for UPGRADE.md, it makes these updates much easier. > ~20 maps updated and 9 apps deployed with M3 in a couple of hours (M2 -> M3). > Most projects more or less just (1) opening/updating the projects/maps -> (2) > Updating runtime creation code to use new APIs -> (3) re-configure logging -> > (4) build and deploy. No surprises. > I'd call that a lovely update process, given that large-ish change in the > model layer (removal of DataNodes — which I immediately like; think it makes > the whole setup feel simpler). > > And I think I can definitely feel improved performance? Although that should > probably be considered conjecture for now, since I haven't measured anything > yet. Possibly everything just feels fast after a couple of hours upgrading > boilerplate :) > > Oh, and the modeler's new clothes look really nice. > > Cheers, thanks and once again, congrats on a great release! > - hugi > > >> On 25 Aug 2026, at 18:23, Nikita Timofeev <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 5.0-M3 is live now. >> It was a rather quick release, thanks everyone again! >> >> On Tue, Aug 25, 2026 at 2:45 PM Nikita Timofeev <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> +1 >>> Javadocs are missing from the Central for this and the M2 release; this >>> seems not critical for the milestone. Should be fixed for the next one. >>> >>> Here's a final voting result: >>> >>> Andrus Adamchik (PMC): +1 >>> John Huss (PMC): +1 >>> Nikita Timofeev (PMC): +1 >>> >>> I will finalize the release later today. >>> Thank you, everyone! >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Aug 24, 2026 at 6:32 PM John Huss <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> +1 >>>> >>>> 1) verified signatures >>>> 2) verified archives are basically identical between platforms >>>> 3) RAT indicates no unlicensed files >>>> 4) compiled from source >>>> 5) unit tests ran successfully >>>> 6) macOS specific and Platform-agnostic modelers launch on macOS >>>> >>>> On Fri, Aug 21, 2026 at 10:27 AM Andrus Adamchik <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> My checklist is green. I am +1. >>>>> >>>>> + MD5/SHA512 matches >>>>> + Signature checks >>>>> + rat passes >>>>> + builds from source >>>>> + Modeler runs on OS X >>>>> + Cross-platform Modeler runs on OS X >>>>> + Upgrade Bootique using the Maven repo >>>>> + Upgrade Agrest using the Maven repo >>>>> + Upgrade LinkMove using the Maven repo. >>>>> >>>>> FWIW, DataNode unwinding from XML allowed to simplify Bootique >>>> integration >>>>> a lot. Cleaner design paying off. >>>>> >>>>> Andrus >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> On Aug 21, 2026, at 5:32 AM, Nikita Timofeev < >>>> [email protected]> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Hi all, >>>>>> >>>>>> Here's a next 5.0 milestone release. >>>>>> >>>>>> Release notes: >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> https://github.com/apache/cayenne/blob/refs/tags/5.0-M3/RELEASE-NOTES.txt >>>>>> Maven repo: >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachecayenne-1064/ >>>>>> Assemblies: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/cayenne/5.0-M3/ >>>>>> >>>>>> Please evaluate and cast your votes. >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Best regards, >>>>>> Nikita Timofeev >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Best regards, >>> Nikita Timofeev >>> >> >> >> -- >> Best regards, >> Nikita Timofeev >
