JCenter to be dismissed - migrate to Maven Central

[venator85]

Jcenter is scheduled to be dismissed on May 1st, 2021, and no more submissions will be accepted starting from February 28th.
Realm should be migrated to Maven Central as soon as possible.
https://jfrog.com/blog/into-the-sunset-bintray-jcenter-gocenter-and-chartcenter/

[cmelchior]

Hi @venator85

Yes, thank you for this issue. We are currently evaluating our options, but yes moving to Maven Central is probably the most likely outcome.

[moezbhatti]

Are you planning on moving over all versions of the library, or only more recent versions?

[cmelchior]

If possible we will be looking into moving all versions over.

[moezbhatti]

That's good to hear! I'm still on version 5.8 due to some issues with migrating to more recent versions

[ArneKoeckeritz]

Hi guys,
What's the current status ?
There are just 5 work days left before sunsetting !

[erikhuizinga]

@ArneKoeckeritz
The deadline is May 1st, not March 1st. So still a bit more (but not too much) time left!

[01AlexandruTanase]

"To clarify, the JCenter repository will keep serving packages for 12 months until February 1st 2022. Only the JCenter REST API and UI will be sunsetted on May 1st 2021."

Does this mean that we will be able to continue using the latest realm version in our projects till 2022 but after May 1st no more library updates will be available through JCenter?

[cmelchior]

Our understanding is that from March 31st, we will no longer be able to push releases to JCenter, but all versions will still be available until 2022.

Note, we are in the process of migrating to MavenCentral. This will include all previous releases, but we are focusing on new releases first.

https://jfrog.com/blog/into-the-sunset-bintray-jcenter-gocenter-and-chartcenter/

[saintjab]

@cmelchior any update on this? Its been quiet here

[erikhuizinga]

@saintjab while I assume that the team is working on migrating current+previous releases to Maven Central, note that JCenter is no longer going offline:

UPDATE 4/27/2021: We listened to the community and will keep JCenter as a read-only repository indefinitely. Our customers and the community can continue to rely on JCenter as a reliable mirror for Java packages.

Quoted from https://jfrog.com/blog/into-the-sunset-bintray-jcenter-gocenter-and-chartcenter/

Emphasis on 'indefinitely'.

So half of the problem is solved: users can rely on JCenter until the Realm team publishes all their versions to Maven Central. Of course, the problem remains that JCenter is read-only now, so new versions will still have to be published to Maven Central. I assume that you'd like an update on that?

[cmelchior]

Sorry, for not updating this. We have started doing releases to Maven Central https://search.maven.org/artifact/io.realm/realm-android-library

We originally had plans to migrate all releases as well, but since JCenter promised to keep these indefinitely this has not as high a priority as before.

[sync-by-unito]

➤ Christan Melchior commented:

All releases from 10.4.0 are being deployed to Maven Central: https://search.maven.org/artifact/io.realm/realm-android-library

Older releases are kept on JCenter for the time being.