Welcome to issue number one hundred and eighty-four of Hashtag Jakarta EE!

I have just arrived home from JCrete 2023, so this will be a rather short one. A write-up from JCrete will be published shortly. Here is a teaser in the form of a group picture.

It’s Sunday again, and time for the weekly update on the current status of plan reviews for specifications targeting Jakarta EE 11. Nine plans have been approved, four are on ballot, three are ready for ballot, and we’re still waiting for Jakarta Bean Validation to submit a plan (Snapshot from Sunday, July 9, 2023):

Plan Approved
Jakarta Authentication 3.1
Jakarta Authorization 3.0 (to be announced)
Jakarta Data 1.0
Jakarta Expression Language 6.0
Jakarta MVC 3.0 (to be announced)
Jakarta NoSQL 1.0
Jakarta Pages 4.0
Jakarta Persistence 3.2
Jakarta RESTful Web Services 4.0

On Ballot
Jakarta Contexts and Dependency Injection 4.1 (ballot)
Jakarta Faces 5.0 (ballot)
Jakarta Interceptors 2.2 (ballot)
Jakarta WebSocket 2.2 (ballot)

Ready for Ballot
Jakarta Concurrency 3.1
Jakarta Security 4.0
Jakarta Servlet 6.1

Expected
Jakarta Bean Validation 3.1 or 4.0