All the items that are critical to a major version release are done so I
think we can release Jena 6.0.0
RDF 1.2 work is not finished.
(RCs in the past have had very limited feedback.)
== Jena 6
* Reloading TDB2 advised
* Reload spatial indexes (upgrade to Kryo5)
* Minimum java version: Java 21
* Code deprecation removal
* Lucene update to 10.* (this requires Java21+)
* Switch to jena-iri3986 as the IRI parser; retire jena-iri
* Retire the Fuseki WAR file
* More deprecation of TDB1 but not for removal at Jena 6.0.0.
* Remove ARQ initial bindings
* modules retired
jena-iri, jena-fuseki-webapp, jena-fuseki-war, jena-permissions
Issues closed:
https://github.com/apache/jena/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20closed%3A2025-10-14..2030-01-01
PRs closed:
https://github.com/apache/jena/pulls?q=is%3Apr+closed%3A2025-10-14..2030-01-01+-author%3Aapp%2Fdependabot
Andy
