New Features:

  • Support for Java 17

Major Dependency Changes:

  • Jackson is upgraded to 2.13.x
  • ehCache upgraded to 3.9.x
  • WSS4J upgraded to 2.4.0
  • Mozilla Rhino up 1.7.13 (groupId/artifactId changed, be careful)
  • Spring Boot 2.6.x / Spring Framework 5.3.x base line
  • Apache Karaf 4.3.x base line
  • Apache HttpClient 5 support (Asynchronous Client HTTP Transport)
  • HTTP/2 support (server-side only) (HTTP/2 support)
  • JUnit 5 support

Removed Features:

  • The old OATH 1.0 module was removed.  Users should move to OAUTH 2

Important Notes:

  • The CXF 3.5 series will be the last to support Java8.  Users are encouraged to upgrade to Java 11