New Features:

• Support for Java 17

Major Dependency Changes:

• Jackson is upgraded to 2.13.x
• ehCache upgraded to 3.9.x
• WSS4J upgraded to 2.4.0
• Mozilla Rhino up 1.7.13 (groupId/artifactId changed, be careful)
• Spring Boot 2.6.x / Spring Framework 5.3.x base line
• Apache Karaf 4.3.x base line
• Apache HttpClient 5 support (Asynchronous Client HTTP Transport)
• HTTP/2 support (server-side only) (HTTP/2 support)
• JUnit 5 support

Removed Features:

• The old OATH 1.0 module was removed.  Users should move to OAUTH 2

Important Notes:

• The CXF 3.5 series will be the last to support Java8.  Users are encouraged to upgrade to Java 11