Dear development community, After much anticipation, I am happy to start the VOTE thread for a Geb 8.0.0 release!
This release updates a lot of the dependencies and build tooling for the Geb project. There are also some quality of life improvements from community contributors, including better support for closures in JavaScript execution (see PR 275 <https://github.com/apache/groovy-geb/pull/275>). The biggest breaking change is that the group in the maven coordinates for artifacts will change from org.gebish to org.apache.groovy.geb. The second biggest breaking change is that Java 11 is the minimum target version for the compiled artifacts. The complete changelog is on GitHub: https://github.com/apache/groovy-geb/compare/v7.0...v8.0.0 Tag: v8.0.0 (https://github.com/apache/groovy-geb/tree/v8.0.0) Tag commit id: 75d12d5fe9e52409daf74082bfda351d9f55f76c The artifacts to be voted on are located as follows (r79217): Source release: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/groovy/geb/ Additionally, there are staged Maven artifacts at https://repository.apache.org/service/local/repositories/orgapachegroovy-1090/content/org/apache/groovy/geb/ Release artifacts are signed with a key from the following file: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/groovy/KEYS Please vote on releasing this package as Apache Geb 8.0.0. Reminder on ASF release approval requirements for PMC members: http://www.apache.org/legal/release-policy.html#release-approval Hints on validating checksums/signatures (but replace md5sum with sha256sum or sha512sum): https://www.apache.org/info/verification.html Since Geb is a subproject of Groovy, the same Groovy PMC votes that are required for a Groovy release will be required here. The vote is open for the next 72 hours and passes if a majority of at least three +1 PMC votes are cast. [ ] +1 Release Apache Geb 8.0.0 [ ] 0 I don't have a strong opinion about this, but I assume it's ok [ ] -1 Do not release Apache Geb 8.0.0 because... Here is my vote: +1 (non-binding)
