While going up from 1.3 to 1.4, I noticed the change in the way classes are referenced from caches that XStream builds (for example in AnnotationMapper.)
In 1.3, all the classes are weak references, presumably so as not to prevent classloaders from getting garbage collected. In 1.4, I noticed that this is no longer the case.
So if I'm using XStream in an environment where class loaders come in and go, it'd leak classloaders.
This must have been done intentionally. While this doesn't break Jenkins, I'm curious as to what prompted this change.
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