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Working on a dependency pass for 4.2.
Had held this until the enforcer was up and running.
Ran into some holes in my dependency qualification workflow from that, now reorganised.
May move this into the build containers at some point.
Lost more than a week on a medical issue (I’m fine for now, but it’s time-consuming).
As Tom points out, Maven 5.8.5 is out:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12316922&version=12351105
Doesn’t seem to have anything we actually need.
Adopting by bumping minimum version would require all dev machines, CI machines and build containers to be updated.
If we do want to make it the minimum for 4.2, we need to start on that stuff NOW. Inclined to make it optional (by ignoring it).
It has some plugin dependency requirements that I may pick up anyway, depending on whether their keys are known.
Dependencies with new keys (deferred until resolved, working on these with Rod):
rhino, jcommander, janino, hibernate
Big bumps (suggest ignoring these):
Mockito (new APIs in major version)
Checkstyle (may do an 8.x update, but both 9.x and 10.x exist now… also, interaction with Eclipse)
Little bumps (still to be pulled in):
Some Maven plugins.
The ones Rod is key hunting for.
Maybe Checkstyle.
JAXB API and runtime versions have split.
Coming back to the 5.x conversion now that Spring Framework 6.0.0-M3 is out. Spring Webflow still the sticking point.
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