Sorry my comment refers to the Oak side of things: 
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OAK-9752.
Not sure how much value it is to upgrade Sling to 4.x as long as Oak still 
depends on 1.x.
Konrad

> On 4. Nov 2026, at 17:29, Konrad Windszus via dev <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> Tika 4.x got rid of XML configuration being leveraged in Oak, so this will be 
> hard to upgrade in a backwards compatible way: 
> https://tika.apache.org/docs/4.0.x/migration-to-4x/migrating-to-4x.html#_configuration_xml_to_json
> All API related to XML config has been removed only a standalone tool for 
> conversion is available: 
> https://tika.apache.org/docs/4.0.x/migration-to-4x/migrating-to-4x.html#_automatic_conversion.
> This conversion exceed the time I can spend working on this, so any volunteer 
> here would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> I haven’t checked though if it works fine again in OSGi.
> 
> Regards,
> Konrad
> 
>> On 4. Nov 2026, at 17:02, Carsten Ziegeler via dev <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> With Tika 4.x being out, I guess we could try that now?
>> 
>> Regards
>> Carsten
>> 
>> On 6/19/2026 12:39 PM, Konrad Windszus wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I don’t think Oak is blocked by SLF4J v2.
>>> Look at the comments and the branch related to 
>>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OAK-9752.
>>> Main issue is that Tika v3 currently does not work in OSGi 
>>> (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-4698).
>>> One fix was merged for the upcoming v3.3.2.
>>> Another approach was taken for Tika v4 (only available as alpha version).
>>> Konrad
>>>> On 19. Jun 2026, at 09:42, Julian Reschke <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Am 19.06.2026 um 09:07 schrieb Carsten Ziegeler:
>>>>> I think you missed my point. We fix it the right way for Sling . If Oak 
>>>>> moves as well, great, done. If Oak does not move, well then it needs that 
>>>>> wrapper bundle to run new and old Tika version side by side.
>>>>> Regards
>>>>> Carsten
>>>> 
>>>> AFAIR, Oak is actually blocked by not being able do update SLF4J, no?
>>>> 
>>>> (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OAK-10339)
>>>> 
>>>> Best regards, Julian
>>>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Carsten Ziegeler
>> Adobe
>> [email protected]
>> 
>> 
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