Jersey 2.28 has been released

Jersey 2.28 has been released and is available in maven central! Jersey 2.28, the first Jakarta EE implementation of JAX-RS 2.1 has finally been released. Please let us know how you like it!

After whole Java EE has been contributed to the Eclipse Foundation, every project mainly focused on introducing the project and on bringing it closer to the community. From all the tools made available for the community, I’d like to mention Travis CI. It is a great tool that can be used by the community to verify the functionality of provided pull requests. As always Jersey team is happy for them as well as for any other help from the community.

Another goal of Jakarta EE was to create a new release of every project with new versions of dependencies released in the Jakarta EE. In the case of Jersey, the dependencies were updated as much as possible. Of course, sometimes that’s not desired, such as when testing integration with Servlet 2.5 the dependency on Servlet 4.x is not exactly right.

Functionally, we mainly focused on fixing issues, first with building Jersey that was reported by the community, and later some reported differences between Jersey and JAX-RS Specification. This is common for every Jakarta EE project this release: it was required not to provide any changes in API and functionality to ensure the compatibility between last Java EE and initial Jakarta EE releases.

Jersey master contains quite a list of changes, fixes, and improvements to be available in next Jersey release. Currently, there are a few legal details left that need to be resolved so that Jakarta EE projects are allowed to release a version that has API changed, that brings new features, and/or modifies some behavior. Once those legal matters are resolved, a next Jersey release will be created!