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Current Roadmap for future versions of CXF. (this is an ongoing "work in progress", subject to change.)

CXF versions 2.0.x

These should just be a bug fix releases for bugs users encounter with 2.0.x versions. These will be done on a branch by selectively merging fixes from trunk/2.1.x on an as-needed basis. For the most part, there would be fixes for:

• XFire migration issues
• Any interopability issues
• Critical show stoppers
• etc....

Notice: 2.0.12 will be was the last official release version of the 2.0.x seriesto be released at Apache. It is now considered unsupported. Users are highly encouraged to migrate to newer versions of CXF.

CXF version 2.1.x

These should just be a bug fix releases for bugs users encounter with 2.1.x versions. These will be done on a branch by selectively merging fixes from trunk on an as-needed basis. For the most part, there would be fixes for:

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• Continuations
• True asynchronous client requests
• Request/Response contexts for simple frontend clients and Dynamic clients
• New spring based JMS transport

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CXF version 2.2.x

These should just be a bug fix releases for bugs users encounter with 2.2.x versions. These will be done on a branch by selectively merging fixes from trunk on an as-needed basis. For the most part, there would be fixes for:

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• JAX-RS enhancements - particularly around WADL support
• WS-SecurityPolicy support for Java first use cases
• XMLBeans tooling enhancements

CXF version 2.3

New features are being developed here to be released "when ready". The current plan is in Q3/09, but subject to slippage if we the features aren't releasable. Features on the roadmap include:

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Future version - some will likely go into 2.3

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• JiBX databinding (runtime, tooling is lower priority)
• Better Acegi integration
• Update to WS-RM 1.1
• Enhancements to WS-Trust support (STS possibly, SAML2 support through new WSS4J, etc...)
• Other WS-* stuff