Once again it's been a long time coming between episodes, Auckland's recent extended Covid lock down and Mark's unscheduled and temporary relocation meant we missed out on discussion the release of Java 17 - and with Java 18 not all that far away, we thought it was about time to once again get our record on.

Andres Almiray once again joins us to talk releases, and specifically the JReleaser tool.

Table of Contents 00:00:11 Introduction00:00:59 Lockdowns and Freedoms00:03:45 Java 17 and 18 Releases00:04:47 Java 17 Uptake00:05:37 Misconceptions of The Module System00:07:49 Spring 6 and Spring Boot 3 move to JDK 17 Minimum00:08:56 Maven Enforcer Plugin: Extra Enforce Rule - Enforce Bytecode00:11:40 Java LTS Releases Switching to 2 year cycle00:14:13 Quality of Life Language Changes In Smaller Releases00:16:00 Java Version Migration00:20:11 Is The Release Process Broken00:21:10 Reproducible Builds00:22:32 Maven Artifact Plugin00:24:36 Introducing JReleaser00:28:07 OSX Package Managers vs Tarballs00:29:23 JBang00:31:10 JReleaser Deployment Targets00:33:55 Replacing Ansible/Puppet?00:41:25 JRelease for Non Java / C++ Projects00:42:10 Live at HEAD00:44:34 JRelease for Non Java / C++ Projects (cont)00:51:15 JReleaser Configuration Formats00:54:22 Upcoming 1 Release and Potential Renaming00:58:27 Lombok and 1.x01:01:21 SDK Man releases via JReleaser01:04:04 Does JReleaser release itself?01:06:10 Rolling Releases and Announcers01:14:02 Closing Rant: Automated Code Formatters Java Related

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