After considering the concerns about API stability, plugin compatibility, and the performance issues reported by Sergey (4x slower in rc3), I agree with Sylwester, Benjamin, and Elliotte that we should opt for an rc4 to address these issues. My proposal is to release a final release candidate (rc4) soon, aiming for a General Availability (GA) release in September. Post rc4, I suggest creating a 4.0.x branch to start work on 4.1.0. For 4.1.0, we could introduce API changes like records and sequenced collections, as well as new features such as mixins, cascading profiles, server aliases, JDK 21 (still under discussion) and more....
The recent API changes for JPMS, as Martin noted, only affect the experimental API, so they shouldn’t block the release. On Matthias’s suggestion, enabling GitHub Issues across all repositories before the GA seems like a good idea to improve user feedback. Let’s focus on stabilizing rc4 and addressing performance bottlenecks, possibly exploring Martin’s O(N²) concerns with profiling, as Sergey offered. What do you think about this plan? On a side note, I created a few months ago a project to check Maven 4 compatibility with all Apache projects using Maven. The results for RC-3 can be found at https://github.com/gnodet/maven4-testing/issues/2812. Most of the errors are caused by the use of incompatible plugins (which needs to be updated) or incorrect POMs (as Maven 4 is more strict about a few things). What would be nice is a tool to integrate in the shell that would fix those known incompatibilities, so that users would have an easier migration path. And we could apply it to this project to make more green boxes. Le mer. 21 mai 2025 à 08:11, Guillaume Nodet <gno...@apache.org> a écrit : > > Hey Maven Devs, > > We're gearing up to release a new version from the master branch. I'm > thinking we should go for 4.0.0 instead of rc-4. What do you all think? Any > feedback or ideas on the versioning or release plan? Let’s hear it! > > Cheers, > > Guillaume > > -- ------------------------ Guillaume Nodet --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
