Apache CXF 4.2.x release line uses JDK-17 baseline.

New Features:

  • The release is based on JakartaEE 11 ( CXF-8828 - ( ) )
  • Support of Spring Framework 7 / Spring Boot 4 /  Spring Security 7
  • Jetty 12.1
  • Weld 6
  • Spring LDAP 4
  • Hibernate 7.2
  • Hibernate Validator 9.1
  • Apache Tika 3.2
  • Jackson 3.0
  • Tomcat 11
  • Undertow 2.4
  • Apache Lucene 10 (needs JDK-21)
  • JUnit 6
  • Apache Mina 3
  • Apache HttpClient 5.5
  • AssertJ 4.0
  • Micrometer 1.16.0 / Micrometer Tracing 1.6.0
  • Apache HttpClient5 5.6 (compression changes)
  • JSpecify annotations (instead of jakarta.* equivalents)
  • Glassfish Grizzly Http Server 5.0.0 (needs JDK-21)

Removed Features:

  • removed org.apache.cxf.feature.LoggingFeature (deprecated for a long time) and related classes, the replacement is org.apache.cxf.ext.logging.LoggingFeature
    <dependency>
   <groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId>
   <artifactId>cxf-rt-features-logging</artifactId>
   <version>4.2.0</version>
</dependency>
  • removed <logging> namespace handler, the replacement is explicit use of org.apache.cxf.ext.logging.LoggingFeature
    <cxf:bus>
    <cxf:features>
        <bean class="org.apache.cxf.ext.logging.LoggingFeature"/>
    </cxf:features>
</cxf:bus>