End of Community Support for Jetty 9.x - June 2022

[joakime]

It’s been 9 years since Jetty 9 was released and it is time to announce some changes regarding the end of community support for Eclipse Jetty 9.x.

June 1st, 2022 will mark the official End of Community Support for Eclipse Jetty 9.x.

While users of Jetty 9.x will continue to see releases for security and critical issues until 9.x goes End of Life (EOL), the only ongoing support provided will be for Webtide customers.

As for the official EOL of Jetty 9.x, we will give at least 6 months notice after the last Webtide customer has transitioned off of using 9.x. We can’t provide a firm date, but it is unlikely to happen before 2025.

Action	Before June 1st, 2022	End of Community Support (June 1st, 2022)	End of Life (Date TBD)
Community PRs reviewed and integrated	✔️	❌	❌
Webtide Customer PRs reviewed and integrated	✔️	✔️	❌
Community triggered releases	✔️	❌	❌
Webtide Customer triggered releases	✔️	✔️	❌
Security / Vulnerability triggered releases	✔️	✔️	❌

Thank you for your continued usage and support of Jetty, please take a moment to look at Jetty release 12.0.x.

Note: Jetty 10 and Jetty 11 are now at End of Community Support

• End of Community Support for Jetty 10 / Jetty 11 - January 2024 #10485

Jetty Version	Minimum JDK Version	Jakarta EE	Servlet Version	Namespace
12.0.x - env:ee8	17	EE8	4	javax.servlet.*
12.0.x - env:ee9	17	EE9	5	jakarta.servlet.*
12.0.x - env:ee10	17	EE10	6	jakarta.servlet.*

[jmcc0nn3ll]

Let's push it to June 1st, first of the month is always good for this sort of announcement and 10 days might panic someone. No need to cause a heart attack.

[joakime]

I agree. Updating ...

[joakime]

We should send an email to the jetty mailing lists - https://www.eclipse.org/jetty/mailing_lists.php

• https://accounts.eclipse.org/mailing-list/jetty-users
• https://accounts.eclipse.org/mailing-list/jetty-dev
• https://accounts.eclipse.org/mailing-list/jetty-announce

And we should update the version table at https://www.eclipse.org/jetty/download.php

[jmcc0nn3ll]

Announcements sent, I'll update that table now.

[prenagha]

The title of the issue here implies the end of the 9 series entirely. But the issue details all talk about 9.4.x being ended. I assume we really mean that 9.4 is ending and there are no future versions of 9 planned (other than noted major bug fix). Might be worth calling that out explicitly. Or perhaps just refer to 9.x everywhere in this issue and communications.

[joakime]

All versions before 9.4.x are already End of Life / Deprecated.
See: https://www.eclipse.org/jetty/download.php#version-table

There will never be a 9.5.x, so the title saying 9.x is actually correct.
All of the 9 series is included in this announcement.

I updated the original text to only use "9.x" and no longer use "9.4.x"

[joakime]

Communication has been sent. Closing issue as completed.

[covertMartin]

Is this page now out of date? https://www.eclipse.org/jetty/download.php as it show 9.4 as stable?

[sbordet]

@covertMartin, the page is up-to-date. Jetty 9.4.x is stable and there is a "Notice" link.
The fact that Jetty 9.4.x is in end of community support does not mean it is not stable.

[joakime]

That status will likely change when 9.4.x goes to EOL status.