I could test a new alpha or beta in a branch in our CI at work as a sanity check.
Gary On Thu, Dec 4, 2025, 23:40 Ryan Schmitt <[email protected]> wrote: > There are some changes merged in since the alpha release, including a new > optional dependency in the client (caffeine). I think we can either release > the current alphas as stable versions, or do new beta releases off of the > current master branches. I'm leaning towards the latter, since it brings in > some bug fixes, the heavily revised RouteSegmentedConnPool, RFC6874 zone > identifiers, and a few other things. > > On Wed, Dec 3, 2025 at 3:54 AM Oleg Kalnichevski <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 2025-12-02 at 18:10 -0800, Ryan Schmitt wrote: > > > The need for a 5.6 release is starting to become more urgent on my > > > end. > > > > > > 1. The AWS Java SDK has added preview support for Apache 5.x that > > > they want > > > to release soon, and I want them to have idle timeout support from > > > the > > > start. I'm also a little concerned about some of the changes in TLS > > > configuration behavior and I don't want them to have to straddle both > > > 5.5 > > > and 5.6. > > > > > > 2. I recently had to make an emergency patch for a team that was > > > having > > > latency issues that would have been fixed by the changes in 5.6-- > > > mainly > > > idle timeout support, which makes it safe to raise the connection > > > TTL. > > > (Currently the only alternative is `pool.closeIdle()`, which we > > > stopped > > > using years ago because of performance issues, particularly with > > > strict > > > pools. Off-lock disposal might also help with this.) > > > > > > Everything looked good when I tested 5.6-alpha1, and we haven't > > > merged many > > > changes since then. Should we set an approximate date to release Core > > > 5.4 > > > and Client 5.6? Are there any unmerged PRs or additional features > > > that we > > > are definitely targeting for 5.6? > > > > > > > Ryan > > > > Just say when you need it and I will put it no vote and vote in favor. > > If there is enough time we can also do one BETA in between. > > > > Oleg > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > >
