[jboss-dev] AS 4.2.2.GA status - please read

[Kabir Khan]

I have upgraded to javassist 3.6.0.GA and JBoss AOP 1.5.6.GA

Dimitris Andreadis wrote:
> The deadline for most of the work for 4.2.2.GA is Sep/30th. After that, 
> only last minute fixes before we enter the final QA cycle. The target 
> release date is around mid-October.
> 
> We are down to 20 issues/tasks.
> http://jira.jboss.com/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&mode=hide&sorter/order=DESC&sorter/field=priority&resolution=-1&pid=10030&fixfor=12311522 
> 
> 
> Please make sure we haven't missed something important you want to see 
> in AS 4.2.2.GA. However, consider that we have very limited time to work 
> on Branch_4_2.
> 
> Please check if something is assigned to you:
> http://jira.jboss.com/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?mode=hide&requestId=12310851 
> 
> 
> A summary follows:
> 
> Component Updates
> =================
> 2 pending component upgrades:
> http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-4550 - a JBossWeb 2.0.1.GA from Remy
> http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-4731 - JBoss Cache 1.4.1.SP5, we 
> might not make it for this one.
> 
> There is also an ongoing saga with the hsqldb upgrade and the shutdown 
> problems that cause the ejb3 testsuite to hang. Brian found a 
> workaround, but if that doesn't work out we'll rollback:
> http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-4694
> 
> Testsuites
> ==========
> 
> --- ejb3 ---
> The EJB3 testsuite needs attention:
> http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-4572 (BillD)
> 
> The last good run on CC shows 13 failures:
> http://cruisecontrol.jboss.com/cc/buildresults/ejb3-4.2-testsuite?log=log20070925235738 
> 
> 
> I still don't see any good run on Hudson, I triggered yet another one:
> http://dev45.qa.atl.jboss.com:8585/hudson/view/EJB3/
> 
> --- jboss-4.2-testsuite ---
> 
> The last run has only transaction manager test failures:
> http://dev45.qa.atl.jboss.com:8585/hudson/view/JBoss%20AS/job/JBoss-AS-4.2.x-TestSuite-sun15/27/testReport/ 
> 
> 
> 3 are known (org.jboss.test.tm.test.TransactionLocalUnitTestCase), 
> another one looks new:
> org.jboss.test.tm.test.TxTimeoutUnitTestCase.testOverriddenTimeoutExpires. 
> However it passes locally on my machine.
> 
> The jrockit run shows a lot of clustering failures.
> http://dev45.qa.atl.jboss.com:8585/hudson/view/JBoss%20AS/job/JBoss-AS-4.2.x-TestSuite-jrockit15/23/testReport/ 
> 
> Those look transient ones because the previous run had only 5 failures:
> http://dev45.qa.atl.jboss.com:8585/hudson/view/JBoss%20AS/job/JBoss-AS-4.2.x-TestSuite-jrockit15/22/testReport/ 
> 
> 
> It would be nice to come up with more stable runs.
> 
> -- TCK 1.4 ---
> 
> Before release we should perform a full tck1.4 run:
> http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-4754 (rajesh)
> 
> Documents
> =========
> Ongoing work here:
> http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-4696
> 
> Installer
> =========
> The installer for AS 4.2.1 was delayed for various reasons. Maybe it's 
> better to just wait now and release an installer for AS 4.2.2 with JBoss 
> Messaging 1.4.0.GA (Amit?)
> 
> JIRA Tasks
> ==========
> 
> Critical tasks related to the transaction manager (Jonathan):
> http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-4675
> http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-4690
> http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-4748
> 
> A lot of security related stuff that needs attention (Anil?)
> http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-4404
> http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-3169
> http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-3378
> http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-3143
> http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-4752
> 
> Other
> http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-4667 - Adrian
> http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-3142 - Clebert
> http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-4523 - Heiko Braun
> http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-2282 - Alexey
> 
> Cheers
> /Dimitris
> 

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Kabir Khan
JBoss AOP Lead
JBoss, a division of Red Hat