Apache CXF 4.2.x release line uses JDK-17 baseline.

New Features:

• The release is based on JakartaEE 11 ( )
• Support of Spring Framework 7 / Spring Boot 4 /  Spring Security 7
• Jetty 12.1
• Weld 6
• Spring LDAP 4
• Hibernate 7.2
• Hibernate Validator 9.1
• Apache Tika 3.2
• Jackson 3.0
• Tomcat 11
• Undertow 2.4
• Apache Lucene 10 (needs JDK-21)
• JUnit 6
• Apache Mina 3
• Apache HttpClient 5.5
• AssertJ 4.0
• Micrometer 1.16.0 / Micrometer Tracing 1.6.0
• Apache HttpClient5 5.6 (compression changes)
• JSpecify annotations (instead of jakarta.* equivalents)
• Glassfish Grizzly Http Server 5.0.0 (needs JDK-21)

Removed Features:

• removed org.apache.cxf.feature.LoggingFeature (deprecated for a long time) and related classes, the replacement is org.apache.cxf.ext.logging.LoggingFeature

  <dependency> <groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId> <artifactId>cxf-rt-features-logging</artifactId> <version>4.2.0</version> </dependency>

• removed <logging> namespace handler, the replacement is explicit use of org.apache.cxf.ext.logging.LoggingFeature
  

  <cxf:bus> <cxf:features> <bean class="org.apache.cxf.ext.logging.LoggingFeature"/> </cxf:features> </cxf:bus>