CAS 7.0 potential release and when SPM 6.5, 6.6 will be EoL

[John Bergant]

I'm looking at staying within the SPM for CAS. I'm a bit nervous as the EoL for 6.5.x is slated for the end of December. It looks like 7.0.0-RC9 is slated for 12/22. Is there any plans for extending the 6.6.x SPM date? How many releases are generally left in SPM after a new version of CAS is released?

[CAS Community]

There is no potential release yet for v7, and we are generally waiting for the surrounding ecosystem and supporting projects to catch up to JDK 21 and all that it requires; a best half-educated guesstimate is very late 2023, or early 2024 Q1. You may prepare beforehand and start experimenting with the regular cadence of RCs.

The typical plan is for the project to manage 3 active release lines; until v7 is released the other two release lines will be maintained per maintenance policy, and their SPM/EOL dates would be fairly stretched out until shortly after the v7 release.