v4.0.0-beta.1

We are happy to announce the first Beta of KumuluzEE 4.0.0. This is the first prerelease of the major release, which brings a major Jetty upgrade, support for the latest released versions of Java, including the Java 17 LTS version and the use of JakartaEE 8 artifacts replacing the JavaEE 8 artifacts.

The breaking changes in this release are:

• KumuluzEE no longer supports Java 1.8 runtime, since the support for Java 1.8 has been dropped in Jetty 10.
• Replaced JavaEE 8 artifacts with the JakartaEE 8 artifacts. If you are using JavaEE artifacts in your code, you should be able to find equivalent artifacts in the JakartaEE namespace.
• Removed excludedAgentPatterns from gzip configuration since it was removed from Jetty.

See the full changelog below.

Features:

• Upgraded from Jetty 9 to Jetty 10
• Added support for Java 16, 17 and 18 and dropped support for Java 1.8
• Use JakartaEE artifacts instead of JavaEE

Enhancements:

• Upped dependency versions
• Removed excludedAgentPatterns from gzip configuration since it was removed from Jetty

Bugs:

• Updated jar loading to add support for multi-release jars when running in UberJar
• Added missing spaces in dependency validation log messages
• More robust exception handling when loading configuration file
• Updated JAX-WS annotation procesor in order to support some edge cases