That has been merged into master, so it will be included.
I will try to get both RC out in the coming days.

On Wed, 15 Jul 2026 at 19:15, Gianluca Graziadei
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Yes, it works for me!
> By the way, what do you think about merging/completing the review for this
> PR before the branch cut for RC1? https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/8819
> Let me know if you think it's ready and safe to include.
>
> Thanks!
> - Gianluca
>
> Il giorno mer 15 lug 2026 alle ore 15:26 Richard Zowalla <
> [email protected]> ha scritto:
>
> > I dont mind either way ;-)
> >
> > > Am 15.07.2026 um 15:00 schrieb Rui Abreu <[email protected]>:
> > >
> > > Gianluca, @Richard Zowalla can we get some votes on getting 3.0.0 RC1
> > > and 2.8.9 RC1 out?
> > >
> > >> On Sun, 12 Jul 2026 at 11:55, Julien Nioche
> > >> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> I propose we release 2.8.9 with 3.0.0 and warn the community that 2.x
> > >> is EOL and that it's the last release. 2.8.9 contains a few
> > >> dependabots upgrades compared to 2.8.8, so it's worth doing.
> > >>
> > >> + 1 from me.
> > >>
> > >> Julien
> > >>
> > >>> On Sat, 11 Jul 2026 at 21:26, Rui Abreu <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> Note: we recently released 2.8.8 so the title of this email chain is
> > >>> wrong. It should read 2..8.9.
> > >>>
> > >>> While keeping 2.x alive for some time is appealing, the jump from
> > >>> Storm 2 to 3 is much less complex than the one made from Storm 2 to 3.
> > >>> Even with master (Storm 3) shipped with Java 25
> > >>> We should focus our attention and resources on 3.x, which has quite a
> > >>> few interesting new additions.
> > >>> I propose we release 2.8.9 with 3.0.0 and warn the community that 2.x
> > >>> is EOL and that it's the last release. 2.8.9 contains a few
> > >>> dependabots upgrades compared to 2.8.8, so it's worth doing.
> > >>>
> > >>> On Wed, 8 Jul 2026 at 21:48, Gianluca Graziadei
> > >>> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >>>>
> > >>>> I agree that setting an EOL  for 2.X is a natural next step for the
> > >>>> project, and options b1 or b2 seem like the best approach.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Cheers,
> > >>>> Gianluca
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>> On Wed, 8 Jul 2026, 10:04 Rui Abreu, <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >>>>
> > >>>>> I agree @Richard Zowalla .The sooner the better, to let the community
> > >>>>> manage expectations
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> Do you want me to set up the vote?
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> On Wed, 8 Jul 2026 at 07:48, Richard Zowalla <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> Yes. We should open a discussion / vote with different options for
> > >>>>> EOLing 2.x (since resources to maintain 2.x branches and getting the
> > >>> votes
> > >>>>> needed for a release are quite sparse).
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> Think primary questions for that would be:
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> (a) Do we have consensus that such an EOL announcement is long
> > >>> overdue
> > >>>>> and should be put out rather soonish?
> > >>>>>> (b) Time of the announcement: Options that I see:
> > >>>>>> - b1: Directly with the projected release of the 3.0.0 marking it as
> > >>> the
> > >>>>> last release ever to be expected for OpenNLP 2.x
> > >>>>>> - b2: Shortly after - with a grace period - for instance End of Year
> > >>>>> 2026, or similar short ranged targets.
> > >>>>>> - b3: Mid of year 2027
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> Gruß
> > >>>>>> Richard
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> On 2026/07/07 22:44:52 Rui Abreu wrote:
> > >>>>>>> Created this PR https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/8893 to set
> > >>> the
> > >>>>>>> baseline as Java 25.
> > >>>>>>> Additionally, we should vote on setting Apache Storm 2.x as EOL
> > >>> (it is
> > >>>>>>> only receiving dependabot updates at this point)
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>> Thank you
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>> On Mon, 29 Jun 2026 at 14:34, Richard Zowalla <[email protected]>
> > >>> wrote:
> > >>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>> +1 on thinking about Java 25 for 3.0.0 rather than just bumping
> > >>> to
> > >>>>> 21.
> > >>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>> The reason it is worth it now is the pinning fix: JEP 491
> > >>>>> ("Synchronize Virtual Threads without Pinning"), delivered in Java 24
> > >>> and
> > >>>>> carried into the 25 LTS. Before that, in 21 to 23, a virtual thread
> > >>> that
> > >>>>> blocked on I/O inside a synchronized block stayed pinned to its
> > carrier
> > >>>>> thread, and under load that could exhaust the carrier pool and stall
> > >>>>> progress. That is a real concern for us, because we have a fair
> > amount
> > >>> of
> > >>>>> synchronized code sitting in exactly the I/O bound paths where you
> > >>> would
> > >>>>> want to use VTs. On 24/25 the VT unmounts and frees the carrier while
> > >>> it
> > >>>>> waits, so we would not have to go and rewrite every synchronized
> > block
> > >>> as
> > >>>>> ReentrantLock first, which is the migration a lot of libraries had to
> > >>> do
> > >>>>> (MySQL Connector/J, Resilience4j and others). Native/JNI is the one
> > >>>>> remaining pinning case, but that is narrow.
> > >>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>> Where this could actually matter in Storm: the places that spend
> > >>>>> their time waiting rather than computing are the obvious candidates.
> > >>>>> Netty/transport worker connections, external lookups in bolts (DB,
> > >>> HTTP,
> > >>>>> cache), and the various ack/metrics/heartbeat paths that talk to
> > >>>>> ZooKeeper/Nimbus. These are classic thread-per-connection or
> > >>> bounded-pool
> > >>>>> setups today, and a thread-per-task VT model could simplify them and
> > >>> scale
> > >>>>> better when a topology fans out to a lot of blocking calls
> > >>>>>>>> .
> > >>>>>>>> What we would want to be careful about: the hot path is the
> > >>>>> executor's disruptor queues and the spout/bolt processing loop, and a
> > >>> lot
> > >>>>> of that is CPU bound message passing, not blocking I/O, so VTs do not
> > >>> help
> > >>>>> there and should not be forced in. This is about targeted use in the
> > >>> I/O
> > >>>>> bound corners, not running everything on virtual threads. We would
> > also
> > >>>>> want to watch ThreadLocal usage, since Scoped Values (finalised in
> > 25)
> > >>> are
> > >>>>> the intended replacement and we lean on thread locals in a few spots.
> > >>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>> So my argument is: if we are doing a new major anyway, baselining
> > >>>>> 3.0.0 on Java 25 rather than 21 costs us little extra now and saves a
> > >>>>> second baseline bump later. It also keeps the door open to actually
> > >>> explore
> > >>>>> VTs in the blocking paths.
> > >>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>> Realistically it will be a good while before we are in a
> > >>> position to
> > >>>>> do a Storm 4, so 3.x is where any of this experimentation has to live
> > >>>>> regardless, and I would rather not start that line on a baseline we
> > >>> already
> > >>>>> know we will want to move off.
> > >>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>> I am not saying we commit to adopting VTs in 3.0.0 itself. Just
> > >>> that
> > >>>>> 25 as the baseline is the enabler, and we can prototype on a branch
> > >>> from
> > >>>>> there.
> > >>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>> Gruß
> > >>>>>>>> Richard
> > >>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>> On 2026/06/24 13:24:26 Rui Abreu wrote:
> > >>>>>>>>> Julien,  master is being compiled with JDK 21, but our test
> > >>>>> pipelines
> > >>>>>>>>> run both 21 and 25.
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>> On Wed, 24 Jun 2026 at 10:49, Julien Nioche
> > >>>>>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >>>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>> Hi Rui,
> > >>>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>> Are we moving to Java 25 in 3.x?
> > >>>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>> Thanks
> > >>>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>> Julien
> > >>>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>> On Mon, 22 Jun 2026 at 14:57, Rui Abreu <[email protected]
> > >>>>
> > >>>>> wrote:
> > >>>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>>> Hey folks,
> > >>>>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>>> We have several good contributions in master and a few more
> > >>>>> undergoing PRs.
> > >>>>>>>>>>> I'm keen on releasing 3.0.0 to the community soon. I don't
> > >>>>> mind at all
> > >>>>>>>>>>> doing the release.
> > >>>>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>>> Let me know what you think
> > >>>>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>>> On Wed, 20 May 2026 at 19:02, Rui Abreu <
> > >>> [email protected]>
> > >>>>> wrote:
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>>>> Totally agree. I would say we should keep merging
> > >>> dependabot
> > >>>>> PRs into
> > >>>>>>>>>>>> 2.x for  some months, but only do a release if we have
> > >>>>> reports of a
> > >>>>>>>>>>>> bug, like the one we patched in 2.8.8.
> > >>>>>>>>>>>> Otherwise, 3.0.0 will be the way to go to better utilise
> > >>> our
> > >>>>> manpower
> > >>>>>>>>>>> resources.
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>>>> On Wed, 20 May 2026 at 18:38, Richard Zowalla <
> > >>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>> Given our current man power it might be beneficial, if
> > >>> we
> > >>>>> decide on a
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>> EOL strategy for the 2.x release line before going into
> > >>>>> 3.x (dropped
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>> clojure, Java 21 baseline), so we have a clear way on
> > >>> how
> > >>>>> long we want
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>> to support the 2.x branch with releases.
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>> Given our slow pace in getting the required votes, we
> > >>>>> might have an
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>> issue with maintaing to release lines in parallel over
> > >>> a
> > >>>>> longer period
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>> of time. Think we can do that for a few months but not
> > >>>>> endlessly.
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>> Might be worth a discussion thread on the dev@ list.
> > >>> wdyt?
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>> Am Mittwoch, dem 20.05.2026 um 16:44 +0100 schrieb Rui
> > >>>>> Abreu:
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hello @Richard Zowalla
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>> We can consider releasing 3.0.0 over the next week
> > >>> or so.
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Sun, 10 May 2026 at 23:09, Rui Abreu <
> > >>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks for the PRs @Richard Zowalla , much
> > >>> appreciated.
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I have merged them and dealt with the subsequent
> > >>>>> dependabot
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> avalanche.
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Apologies if you received a whole bunch of Jenkins
> > >>>>> errors.
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I was using AI + GH client to deal with the
> > >>> dependabot
> > >>>>> PRs in
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> batches
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> and it was being quite helpful, right up until the
> > >>>>> point and it
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> decided to merge a few PRs whose tests were still
> > >>>>> ongoing
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>  problematic Merges
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>   * #8632 (Jersey 4.0.2 upgrade on 2.x)
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>   * #8615 (Checkstyle 13.4.2 on master)
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Both have been reverted and both master and 2.x
> > >>> are ok.
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I'll create a RC for 2.8.8 during the week.
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Sun, 10 May 2026 at 17:01, Rui Abreu <
> > >>>>> [email protected]>
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Ok, we can hold off on 3.0.0 for now.
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I'll focus on making sure 2.8.8 has the necessary
> > >>>>> changeset and
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> then we can get the RC going.
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Sun, May 10, 2026, 16:58 Richard Zowalla <
> > >>>>> [email protected]
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hi all,
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 2.8.8 is fine for me. Guess we need to
> > >>> confirmed
> > >>>>> dependabot for
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 2.x branches too (+ license update action)
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 3.0.0 would need the Java 21 bump before (as
> > >>>>> discussed in the
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> related discussion - dont know if there are
> > >>> other
> > >>>>> things like
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the Jitter RFC stuff for it) - perhaps there is
> > >>>>> something else.
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Gruß
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Richard
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Am 10.05.2026 um 17:13 schrieb Rui Abreu <
> > >>>>> [email protected]
> > >>>>>>>>>>>> :
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hi folks,
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Just trying to understand if you are keen on
> > >>>>> performing a
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> release for both
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> versions shortly
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>> --
> > >>>>>>>>>> *Julien Nioche *
> > >>>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>> digitalpebble.com <http://www.digitalpebble.com/>
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> *Julien Nioche *
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> digitalpebble.com <http://www.digitalpebble.com/>
> >

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