Re: M2?

Hugi, thanks for the great feedback, as always!

Right after M2 I am planning to switch the entire downstream stack =
(Agrest, Bootique, Linkmove) to 5.0, so good to know we haven't broken =
anything irreversibly :)

Andrus

> On May 28, 2026, at 5:45=E2=80=AFAM, Hugi Thordarson =
<[email protected]> wrote:
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> Yay =E2=80=94 building on JDK 26! =F0=9F=8E=89
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> To contribute at least some testing, last week I migrated a web/app =
pet project with quite a bit of traffic ( https://www.neytandinn.is/ ) =
from 5.0-M1 to the current 5.0-SNAPSHOT.
> Not huge by not-a-tiny-island-nation standards, but still gets quite =
some thrashing thanks to the recent inflow of AI crawlers (which love =
the data). Uses things that make it a semi-fine candidate for testing; =
commitlog module, lifecycle event hooks/listeners, and makes heavy use =
of concurrent querying in VirtualThreads.
> Also keeps tight track of every error/exception that occurs during R-R =
=E2=80=94 and haven't noticed anything out of the ordinary since =
migrating. So once 5.0-M2 is out, I'll be migrating the rest of my =
projects from 5.0-M1.
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> Looking forward to having time to try out the agentic stuff. Even =
without that, I've been very pleased with how well at least Claude =
handles working with Cayenne and writing Cayenne code/queries.
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> Thanks!
> - hugi
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>> On 24 May 2026, at 21:46, Andrus Adamchik <[email protected]> =
wrote:
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>> I think at this point we are ready to release M2. It has a huge new =
scope - a complete new agentic coding stack.=20
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>> Mike, do you still have time to prepare the release?
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>> Thanks,
>> Andrus
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>>> On Apr 17, 2026, at 11:00=E2=80=AFAM, Michael Gentry =
<[email protected]> wrote:
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>>> Hi Nikita,
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>>> I don't think there is an urgency to get M2 out, so if the =
outstanding PRs
>>> make sense to include in M2, I think it is OK to wait on them.
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>>> Thanks,
>>> mrg
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>>> On Tue, Apr 14, 2026 at 8:18=E2=80=AFAM Nikita Timofeev =
<[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
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>>>> Several PRs are waiting for me, but nothing is too critical, so we =
may go
>>>> ahead with M3.
>>>> Instructions are all good, I use them every time.
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>>>> On Tue, Apr 14, 2026 at 2:37=E2=80=AFAM Andrus Adamchik =
<[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
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>>>>>> I just filed all my taxes
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>>>>> Congrats! Which reminds me - I am still waiting for my numbers =
from the
>>>>> accountants :)
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>>>>>> so I have some free cycles now if there is
>>>>>> anything I can do to help.
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>>>>> How about publishing the release. @Nikita - do you have anything =
in the
>>>>> queue we'd need to deal with before M2 that can't be moved to M3? =
Also
>>>>> anything missing in the release instructions at
>>>>> https://cayenne.apache.org/dev/release-guide.html ?
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>>>>> Andrus
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>>>>>> On Apr 13, 2026, at 6:16=E2=80=AFPM, Michael Gentry =
<[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
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>>>>>> I just filed all my taxes, so I have some free cycles now if =
there is
>>>>>> anything I can do to help.
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>>>>>> On Mon, Apr 13, 2026 at 5:08=E2=80=AFPM Andrus Adamchik =
<[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
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>>>>>>> Not too many significant new features in M2 so far, though quite =
a few
>>>>> bug
>>>>>>> fixes. So yeah, we probably should do it.
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>>>>>>>> On Apr 13, 2026, at 4:45=E2=80=AFPM, Michael Gentry =
<[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
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>>>>>>>> Is it time for a 5.0.M2?
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>>>>>>>> I noticed the M1 was released 2024-09-09 and that seems a long =
time
>>>>>>> ago...
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>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>> mrg
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>>>> --
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> Nikita Timofeev
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