There have been a few suggestions of making a release in the near future, and it seemed like it might be a good idea to summarize pending development, ask for help to land these, and see if anything else needs to be addressed before shipping.
- There is a pending branch (not yet a PR for GWT itself) working on adding a new gwt-servlet-jakarta.jar and requestfactory-server-jakarta.jar as part of https://github.com/gwtproject/gwt/issues/9727. There is no plan at this time to update the DevMode server to Jakarta, though that will eventually be inevitable if we move to a newer version of Jetty. Work on this can be found at https://github.com/niloc132/gwt/pull/3. - There is a pending fix for eliminating a false positive from using some internals of protobuf to deobfuscate client side exceptions https://github.com/gwtproject/gwt/pull/9785. This is probably safe to land without more testing, but none of the reporters of this bug have verified the fix. - There's a pending fix for a bug in type unions, which can be caused by some ternary expressions and var type declarations https://github.com/gwtproject/gwt/pull/9799. A review found a few oversights in testing, and I'd appreciate another look. - There's a pending fix for a bug where debugging in firefox when assertions are enabled (for example in SDM). It turns out the bug can happen in other cases too in more subtle ways. A draft fix it at https://github.com/gwtproject/gwt/pull/9800. - GWT itself can now be built on Java 11, but not yet 17. There are a few changes pending that will permit this. Additionally, this will enable adding more Java 9-11 JRE emulation, see the list at https://github.com/gwtproject/gwt/issues/9547. Finally, we have an open question about future Java 8 support. Beyond this release, we likely will no longer support running the compiler in Java 8, which will enable adding support for Java 12-17 language features. We can likely still build jars that will run on a Java 8 server, but just can't compile newer JS. To that end, this 2.11 release branch may be longer-lived than usual, depending on feedback and support to continue bugfix releases after 2.12 eventually ships. Are there other changes that 2.11 should included, or other considerations for this release cycle? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GWT Contributors" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-web-toolkit-contributors+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-web-toolkit-contributors/18e9c767-a2e8-42e2-9b6c-764dc0088629n%40googlegroups.com.
