We've been working on WildFly 18 for a little over a month now, and I'm past due to announce the expected schedule. We've been monitoring developments with Jakarta EE 8, work on which is heading into the home stretch. If it goes final in time we'd like to both certify WildFly 18 at release[1] and base our EE API jars on the Jakarta projects.[2] Please recall that the Java EE 8 and Jakarta EE 8 API jars are meant to be binary equivalent, so this change should not introduce runtime behavior differences.
Anyway, here are the key dates in the WildFly 18 schedule:
Fri, Aug 30 — PRs ready for merge for all features coming in via WildFly CoreTue, Sept 3 — All features ready for mergeWed, Sept 4 — WildFly 18 Beta. No new features after this date.Fri, Sept 13 — All changes for WildFly Core readyTue, Sept 17 — All changes for WildFly readyThu, Sept 19 — WildFly 18 Final released
WildFly Core should continue to produce betas every couple of weeks; just today Jeff Mesnil released 10.0.0.Beta2.[3]
Brian