CometD 8.0.x and End of Community Support for 6.0.x & 7.0.x

[Simone Bordet]

Hi all,

CometD 5.0.19, 6.0.15, 7.0.15 and 8.0.2 have been released.

These releases fix some long-standing memory leak problems, caused by:

* https://github.com/cometd/cometd/issues/1716
* https://github.com/cometd/cometd/issues/1770

They also refresh the Jetty dependencies to the latest Jetty versions,
as well as for other dependencies.

The most important news is that CometD 6.0.x & 7.0.x have entered End
of Community Support, as explained here:
https://github.com/cometd/cometd/issues/1754.

This transition is necessary, as Jetty 10 & 11 also are at End of
Community Support, but also because other two Java LTS versions have
been published (Java 17 and Java 21), and support for Jakarta EE8
(javax.*) should be fading away in favor of Jakarta EE 9+ (jakarta.*).

It is time to move to Java 17 (or better yet 21) and CometD 8.0.x.

Enjoy!
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Simone Bordet
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