Bnd / Bndtools 7.2.0 released

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Update 2025/12/01:
Release Candidate 3 (RC3) is available:

2025/11/28: Finally Release Candidate 1 is available:

We appreciate any feedback. The final release is targeted for next week.

Thanks to @peterkir for his incredible release building skills :slight_smile:
Christoph

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Timeline for next release?
Timeline for next release?
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Thank you Chris for all the effort and time you spent in improving, code, documentation and keeping the project generally responsive to requests.

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I fully agree with @peterkir’s words, thank you for your continued efforts @chrisrueger!

I gave version 7.2.0-RC1 a spin in my Maven oriented test project, and it looks good to me!

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Also did a test of RC1 with our software (via gradle 8.10.2 and latest gradle 9.2.1 and so far no issues discovered. We are doing a bnd workspace build.

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Release Candidate 3 (RC3) is available. I updated the description above.
Note: RC2 was not announced as it was just an intermediate build required to build RC3.

We would appreciate another test run of everybody. There was just one issue fixed (P2Export: fix feature and bundle version qualifier by chrisrueger · Pull Request #6973 · bndtools/bnd · GitHub) which was related to P2Exporter which is used for bnd itself, but contains one fix in core / bndlib which would be worth testing.

Thanks again.
If nothing else comes up, we are good for a release I guess… but lets’s see first :slight_smile:

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We released 7.2.0-RC5

See this comment for more details.

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We released RC9. No functional changes compared RC3. The larger number of RCs was mainly due to problems and solution attempts regarding our JFrog / Artifactory environment regarding P2 repo dependencies for Eclipse.

The next step is deployment to Sonatype / Maven Central.

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Bnd / Bndtools 7.2.0 is released now :partying_face:

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Nice to see this update being released!

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We plan a 7.2.1 Patch release in January: [7.2.1] Planning collector · Issue #7026 · bndtools/bnd · GitHub