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

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