Guice 6.0.0 & 7.0.0 release candidates

[sameb]

Hello Everyone,

I'm pleased to announce that Guice has two new release candidates available:

• Guice 6.0.0-rc2: The release page has more details, but the TL;DR is that this release fixed a number of bugs, closed all open pull requests, and added jakarta.inject support alongside the existing javax.inject support. (The jakarta.inject support is almost complete, with the caveat that binder(..).toProvider() methods aren't supported for jakarta providers.) Again, see the release notes for complete details & explanations of the javax -> jakarta change. The servlet & persist extensions remain javax only for Guice 6.0. Guice 6.0 is intended as an incremental migration aid towards Guice 7.0.

• Guice 7.0.0-rc1: The release page has more details, but the TL;DR is that this release is identical to 6.0.0, except it only supports the jakarta.inject namespace. The servlet & persist extensions also only support jakarta.servlet & jakarta.persistence respectively. All support for javax.inject, javax.servlet, and javax.persistence are removed from Guice 7.0+.

Please try out these releases and report back on successes or failures. The more feedback I hear, the faster I can convert these to proper releases. Feedback can be left on on this announcement post, or as issues/PRs in this project.

I would also like to take a moment to honor Bob Lee's memory. Bob created Guice (along with Kevin Bourrillion) back around 2007. Although Bob went on to do many other exciting things, Guice's longevity is a testament to his intuition & genius. He was also just a really, really nice guy. I know I will sorely miss Bob, and the world is a worse place without his presence.

The Guice 6.0 & 7.0 releases are dedicated to Bob.

[wendigo]

I've tested 6.0.0-rc1 in https://github.com/trinodb/trino which is using Guice extensively and everything works flawlessly (trinodb/trino#17286). We've encountered only already discussed issue when running with Azul Prime and we are going to try rc2 to see whether it's resolved. Other than that great work and thank you @sameb! This will unblock us on both Jakarta usage and updating target to JDK 21 :)

[wendigo]

rc2 works as well

[sameb]

@wendigo -- just to confirm -- rc2 fixed the Azul issue?

[wendigo]

@sameb no. Didn't have time for that (other things beside Guice were broken). I can give it a spin tomorrow

[wendigo]

@sameb I've verified rc2 with Azul Prime 17 and it works (both ARM64 and AMD64 arch) :)

[NicoMincuzzi]

I've just tested 7.0.0-rc1 in my application, which uses also servlet & persist extensions and everything seems that works properly! Thank you @sameb!

[sameb]

Hi Folks -- Just an update: as of bee813b I'm happy with the state of things and will soon cut the actual releases (with the newer changes added to each cut). Things were delayed because 4cea397 had some lingering impact on our systems, and I wanted to root-cause what was happening before cutting the real releases. I now believe I've root caused & fixed it.

[sameb]

6.0.0 & 7.0.0 are now released, see announcement @ #1742.

[thisdudeiknew]

Thanks, @sameb!