Hi Kennedy, I wanted to follow up and see if you could share an update on the release status. I took a look at the repositories, and while some now have 10.2.x branches, I noticed the versions are still set to 999-SNAPSHOT, which suggests the automation may not have completed successfully.
I also noticed that kie-tools doesn't appear to have been branched yet, which could put us at risk of getting out of sync with the rest of the release. Could you provide some clarity on the current state and next steps? Thanks, Alex On Tue, Feb 24, 2026 at 3:44 AM, Dominik Hanak <[email protected]> wrote: > Good news! > > Thank you Kennedy! > > Following our past practice I have created a zulip topic[1] to facilitate > collaboration on the release. > > [1] > https://kie.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/386449-kie-dev/topic/10.2E2.2E0. > 20Release.20Thread/with/575482378 > > Dominik > > On Mon, 23 Feb 2026 at 15:35, Kennedy <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > Thank you for your patience as we finalize preparations for the 10.2 > release. I appreciate everyone pitching in with PRs and reviews to keep the > momentum going. > > I’m pleased to share that the final PR related to the new BPMN Editor, > first announced here [1], has now been merged [2]. A big thank you to Tiago > Bento for the significant work behind this modernization effort, which > allows us to move away from our GWT dependency and brings us further into > compliance with Apache guidelines. > > Additionally, all Quarkus and Spring Boot upgrades have been successfully > merged. Many thanks to Jijo Thomas K and Nithin R Krishnan for your work on > these updates [3]. > > Our original plan for the 10.2 release was to remove the GWT-based > BPMN/DMN/SceSim Editors from the codebase, with the Quarkus and Spring Boot > upgrades scheduled for the following release. Because the GWT work took > longer than anticipated, it’s great that we are now able to include these > upgrades in 10.2 as well. > > I will begin running the CI pipelines tomorrow morning (CET) which will > create the new 10.2.x branches. If you have any PRs that you believe should > be included in this release and would justify a short delay, please respond > here. That said, given the time since 10.1, I believe it’s important that > we move forward and publish this release soon to re-establish a consistent > and reliable release cadence. > > Kind regards, > > Kennedy > > [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread/87863y10qxm564cc76svvonslponv2f9 > [2] https://github.com/apache/incubator-kie-tools/pull/3448 > [3] https://lists.apache.org/thread/314vb9wxt22r0t4rh6xqlcf78yz66wv5 > >
