I've been using CDI-1.0 for a long time, and one of the features used in my project is @New qualifier.
A few weeks ago I migrated to CDI-1.1, but was principal for performance promises than features. I didn't found anything really different (except extensions), so you all woked relly good with the backward compatiblity :)

I can assure you that there new things in CDI 1.1 ;). Anyway thanks for the feedback, I’m sure people that worked hard on 1.1 will appreciate.

But today, I got to the @New section of docs, where it is told that the annotation is deprecated.
It is planed in which release will be deleted the annotation, and its associated functionality? Or not yet?

Nothing planned for @New withdrawal but you should be ready for its removal in CDI 2.0.

Anyway, it’s rather easy to with to @Dependent bean to avoid the usage of @New. And if you really need it, it’s quite easy to create tour own extension that register a the @New version of each of your beans.

Antoine Sabot-Durand
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