sling 13 release is done. it took a bit longer than expected due to several tooling issues around further switching to Java 17 and to Java 21 since the last release, and I took a bit more time to fix the root causes around the tooling problems, and tried to simplify the process at some places. however, the whole process was already very well prepared by robert over the last years, thanks for this good foundation, robert!
looking forward for Sling 14, it would be nice to include: - Supporting Jakarta Servlet Specification - Getting rid of javax.json completely and finalizing the switch to jakarta.json - Rename the remaining related modules/github repos from "launchpad" to starter to get rid of the old name as discussed in the last meetings, we should not wait again 2,5 years with the next release. this is not only looking strange from outside, it also comes with the risk of accumulating lots of potential problems which then makes doing a new release harder. normally, doing a sling starter release should not take that much of time with a lot of road blocks removed. so maybe 2 releases in a year would be fine from my point of view. stefan
