Planning upcoming releases

[fabiobrz]

Hi there!

We wanted to share and discuss our plans for the upcoming minor and major releases:

• 7.4.1: Includes minor bug fixes and component upgrades. Most notably, Apache CXF 4.1.8 fixes regressions and introduces security improvements.
• 8.0.0: The main goal is to support SE 17 as the baseline, build the feature pack module against the latest WildFly versions, perform required major component upgrades and code adjustments, and optionally remove Security Manager API usage.

We have already started some preliminary work, which is tracked here:

• https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/JBWS-4521
• https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/JBWS-4469

Feel free to comment and share your thoughts about the JBossWS-CXF/Apache CXF stack here. Relevant WildFly topics can be discussed on Zulip.