Compatibilty of Hazelcast 4.x and Bucket4j 7.1+

[ayanahm]

Hello there,

Beginning from 7.1 seems like Hazelcast 5.x is expected to be present in classspath.
Can we still stick to Hazelcast 4.2 which was previously expected, or is it recommended to update to Hazelcast 5 now?

I couldn't find it in documentation or in release notes, forgive me if I missed it.

Thank you.

[vladimir-bukhtoyarov]

Hello @ayanahm

You are free to use Hazelcast 4.x, there are no requirements to switch to 5.x

The compatibility matrix rules are simple:
When Hazelcast maintainers broke backward compatibility, I just release yet another module here. For example if new version Hazelcast 6.0 will not be compatible with Bucket4j, I will add new module bucket4j-hazelcast-5 and bucket4j-hazelcast will depend from fresh Hazelcast 6.x.