Hello Karaf Team, With JDK 25 now available as the latest LTS release, I wanted to start a discussion about the plans for supporting it in Karaf. Many of us running Karaf in production are beginning to plan our JDK upgrades, so it would be great to understand the direction for the 4.5.x line.
A few questions to get things started: 1. Is JDK 25 support planned for 4.5.0, or is it being considered for a later release? 2. Are there known blockers today (e.g. Felix/Equinox, Pax projects, Aries, bytecode tooling such as ASM, or third-party bundles) that need to be addressed first? 3. Is there an existing JIRA ticket or umbrella issue where this work is being tracked? I'd be happy to help where I can, whether that's testing builds against JDK 25, reporting issues we find in our own deployments, or picking up some of the tasks if the community can point me in the right direction. Thanks for all the great work on Karaf. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts. Best regards, Madhawa
