What's the status of a 1.0.0 release?

[icecreamhead]

Hi, I'm just wondering if there's a plan for a 1.0.0 release? Given the last minor release was over a year ago, and active development seems to have slowed, is there going to be a major release anytime soon? Perhaps you're waiting on something external to go into the final implementation? Any insight would be great! Thanks!

[lhazlewood]

@icecreamhead hey there! There is a plan actually - we discussed a few weeks ago working towards 1.0 sooner rather than later. Originally we were going to wait until the full JOSE document parsing was implemented (not just compact JWT/JWE/JWS tokens) before we cut 1.0, because it is in the RFCs, and we wanted to be 100% RFC compliant with a 1.0 release. However, in the entire history of this project, no-one has ever asked for support parsing full JSON documents. We still want to implement this to be RFC-complete, but we will likely push that off to a 2.0 release (or perhaps a 1.x minor release if possible).

There are a few minor bugs that need to be fixed on the immediate horizon, and then Java 8 language features (lambdas, etc) will be included as the last 'chunk' of work for a 1.0 release, which will also abandon Java 7 (finally).

This summer is pretty busy for most of us so this work will probably need to delay until August or September, which aren't too far away thankfully. But it is indeed coming!

[lhazlewood]

Just a note for those following this discussion: all new development is targeting the new 1.0.x branch. master will be used only for any emergency 0.13.x bug fixes if required, otherwise JDK 8 changes and all other 1.0 work is slated for the 1.0.x branch. We'll likely publish alpha, beta and/or release candidate releases before the final 1.0.0 release to allow people to try the various changes if they wish.