On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 10:12 AM Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote: > > All, > > When I look at the current change logs there isn't much there to justify > a March release. There are a couple of open bugs of which one looks > likely that there is an actual issue to be fixed. > > That said, I'm unlikely to be in a position to tag 11.0.x until w/c 11 > March. The change log may look different at that point. > > It is probably too early to make a decision but I wanted to float the > possibility of skipping the March release. That would mean we'd probably > need to make the final 8.5.x release in April.
We don't need to always release all branches every time. For example, 11 already has two useful fixes right now: support for Java 17 (one could want to verify it), then the FFM fix I made (using the wrong loader in one location means it simply breaks depending on how OpenSSL is loaded, so that's bad). But these two are not in the other branches. As for a final 8.5, I would say it is not mandatory if there's nothing useful in the changelog by the end of March. There's always going to be a final final fix needed anyway. I started skipping some backports to 8.5 since "regressions, who knows". Rémy --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
