[Geoserver-users] Show of hands, who's interested in a 2.7.7 release in April?

Hi,
on behalf of the PSC I’m here to ask the users about their interest on a 2.7.7 release
next month (April).

As you may know, the 2.7.x was supposed to end with 2.7.6, but due to some issues
with our java 8 compatibility we are delaying the 2.9.0 release a couple of months,
and thus we have space for one more community supported release past 2.7.6.

So, would you be interested in getting one more bug fix release in the 2.7.x series?
Let us know

Cheers
Andrea

PS: the end of the community support for a series does not automatically imply the
death of it, if someone shows up that wants to sponsor bugfix backports (which get
increasingly difficult/time consuming as one code base gets old and out of synch
with the latest developments) and release time so that we can do both during working hours,
we can keep up a given series alive for as much as you desire.

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Ing. Andrea Aime

@geowolf
Technical Lead

GeoSolutions S.A.S.
Via di Montramito 3/A
55054 Massarosa (LU)
phone: +39 0584 962313

fax: +39 0584 1660272
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hi Andrea,

On Wed, 9 Mar 2016 20:14:39 +0100, Andrea Aime wrote:

Hi,
on behalf of the PSC I'm here to ask the users about their interest
on a 2.7.7 release
next month (April).

As you may know, the 2.7.x was supposed to end with 2.7.6, but due to
some issues
with our java 8 compatibility we are delaying the 2.9.0 release a
couple of months,
and thus we have space for one more community supported release past
2.7.6.

So, would you be interested in getting one more bug fix release in the
2.7.x series?
Let us know

i'm currently using 2.2.5 and was planing on upgrading to 2.9 --which i
expected to be released around this time. this page
(http://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/developer/policies/community-process.html#release-cycle)
implies February, but this one
(https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/wiki/Release-Schedule) May.
my choice of upgrading to 2.9 is motivated by the move to JDK 8 support
(both my app and GeoServer's).

so not being a user of a 2.7.x i don't have an opinion on such a
release. however having to upgrade soon to a newer version from 2.2.5 i
would appreciate it if you can list the major differences, besides the
obvious support for JDK 8, between (a) the planned maintenance 2.7.7,
(b) the upcoming stable 2.8.3 (this month?), and (c) the delayed 2.9.0
(june?).

PS: the end of the community support for a series does not
automatically imply the
death of it, if someone shows up that wants to sponsor bugfix
backports (which get
increasingly difficult/time consuming as one code base gets old and
out of synch
with the latest developments) and release time so that we can do both
during working hours,
we can keep up a given series alive for as much as you desire.

TIA + cheers;
rsn

Hi,

+0

We don’t need a 2.7.7, but are looking forward to the 2.9.0 with the updated Spring and Java.

Chris Snider

Senior Software Engineer

Intelligent Software Solutions, Inc.

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Hi,

on behalf of the PSC I’m here to ask the users about their interest on a 2.7.7 release

next month (April).

As you may know, the 2.7.x was supposed to end with 2.7.6, but due to some issues

with our java 8 compatibility we are delaying the 2.9.0 release a couple of months,

and thus we have space for one more community supported release past 2.7.6.

So, would you be interested in getting one more bug fix release in the 2.7.x series?

Let us know

Cheers

Andrea

PS: the end of the community support for a series does not automatically imply the

death of it, if someone shows up that wants to sponsor bugfix backports (which get

increasingly difficult/time consuming as one code base gets old and out of synch

with the latest developments) and release time so that we can do both during working hours,

we can keep up a given series alive for as much as you desire.

==

GeoServer Professional Services from the experts! Visit

http://goo.gl/it488V for more information.

==

Ing. Andrea Aime

@geowolf

Technical Lead

GeoSolutions S.A.S.
Via di Montramito 3/A
55054 Massarosa (LU)

phone: +39 0584 962313

fax: +39 0584 1660272

mob: +39 339 8844549

http://www.geo-solutions.it

http://twitter.com/geosolutions_it

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In response to Andrea's questions about 2.7.7, several users have expressed their interest in Java 8 support in 2.9.x. I would like to clarify a few points:

- Java 8 is a supported platform for running 2.8.x.

- 2.9.x makes Java 8 mandatory because it permits Java 8 constructs in *source code* as well.

- If you are looking for a GeoServer that is supported on Java 8, 2.8.x (stable) is the current recommendation. You can upgrade to 2.8.x and Java 8 now.

- You do not have to wait for a 2.9.x release unless you want to use new functionality that is implemented using Java 8 source code and has not been backported to 2.8.x.

- Core GeoServer developers are ironing out a few Java 8 bytecode problems affecting 2.9.x; these problems do not affect 2.8.x which does not permit Java 8 source code. These problems will be fixed by an upgrade to Spring 4 for GeoServer 2.9.0.

Kind regards,

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Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@anonymised.com>
Director
Transient Software Limited <http://transient.nz/&gt;
New Zealand