JGit Compatability with Jakarta EE10

[ekennedy80]

Description

Currently, JGit uses javax.* making it incompatible with newer jakarta.*.

Motivation

In order to allow other web applications that use JGit the ability to use newer jakarata libs, JGit needs to move away from javax to jakarta.

Alternatives considered

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Additional context

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[mchoubby]

when will this enhancement be achieved please ? it's blocking us from upgrading to the last major version of spring boot

[davido]

Here is the pending change to migrate to Jetty 11.0 and Servlet-API to 5.0: [1].

[1] https://review.gerrithub.io/c/eclipse-jgit/jgit/+/189213

[tomjo]

I see this change is merged ❤️ Is there a planning for the next release version?

[msohn]

JGit releases following the calendar of the Eclipse IDE simultaneous release,
see https://github.com/eclipse-simrel/.github/blob/main/wiki/Simultaneous_Release.md

JGit releases (existing and planned) are listed here https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.jgit

• The next release 6.10 is planned to be shipped with Eclipse IDE 2024-06 on June 12, 2024.
• We plan to ship the update to Jetty 12 (see issue Jetty 10 is at End of Community Support - upgrade to Jetty 12 #41) with JGit 7.0 with Eclipse IDE 2024-06 on Sep 11, 2024.