As I recall, the annotations were intended as documentation for the classes, and had class retention.
So I'm not sure how this can affect 3rd party code at runtime. On 9 March 2017 at 16:07, larry mccay <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi HC devs - > > Do I understand correctly that the annotations were removed in 4.5.3 in an > incompatible way? > Maybe I am missing something but breaking the code of existing consumers in > a dot release is bad practice. > > We needed to upgrade to 4.5.3 in order to get the SSL+SPNEGO fix that broke > us with 4.5.2 but now doing so breaks our annotation usage. > > Is there some strategy for existing code to migrate or to use a shim of > sorts for this? > > In the meantime, it seems we will need to downgrade back to 4.5.1 again to > avoid the SSL+SPNEGO issue. > > If there are any critical security fixes/CVEs fixed between dot releases > incompatible changes make it risky to upgrade. > > Hoping that you have some other answer for this. > > thanks, > > --larry --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
