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Today I released #jcommander 3.0. 🥳

List of changes: https://github.com/cbeust/jcommander/commits/3.0

Have fun with this Command Line Parser written in Java 17.

Now migrating to Java 21, to be released in Summer/Autumn 2026 with JCommander 4.0.

Since one year I am the release manager of #jcommander. TIL: 17000+ projects are downstreams of our CLI parser for #java. 🤩

🚀 Today we had a synchronous release of #JCommander 1.84 (still on Java 8) and JCommander 2.0 (the same software, but compiled against Java #11). This starts our migration trail towards modern Java. Our next stops will be Java 17 and Java 21. https://jcommander.org ☕

UPDATE: Forgot to mention. Besides refactorings and bug fixes, 1.84 is the same as 1.83.

#JCommander still is compiled against #Java 8 so most people should be able to use it. I wonder if it would be safe to step up to Java 17 to be able to use modern Java? Even current Debian comes with JRE 17! WDYT?

📢 Few minutes ago I have released **#JCommander 1.84**.

High Five 🙏 to all contributors who contributed lots of bug fixes and a few nice detail features. 🚀

Check out the updated docs:https://jcommander.org/

Available on Maven Central: https://central.sonatype.com/artifact/org.jcommander/jcommander/1.84

I really love to see people send me pull requests with bug fixes for #jcommander 💓! Unfortunately I need to say that 75% of these PRs are really not good enough to merge them, and that 99% of the authors do not respond so I could work with them on better quality. Dropping a low-hanging fruit as a "fly-by" and then ghosting when the actual work begins is definitively not how open source works, guys! 🙁

Just noticed that an open source project maintained by myself is used by Team #openjdk and Team #google. These are the days that pay back all the blood, sweat and tears. #jcommander ☕ 🚀

@CyberlandConf Hackt mit mir gemeinsam heute Abend an #jcommander im open source camp! 🤩

Und wieder ein paar PRs reviewed und gemerged! 💗 Der Berg wird kleiner und passt schon auf eine einzelne Seite. Damit nähert sich der Release-Termin für #jcommander 1.84! 🤩 🚀 ☕

My challenge for this month: Reviewing one #jcommander PR every day, so our stack will be in a controllable size again. https://github.com/cbeust/jcommander/pulls

Mein einziger Sponsor auf Github hat seine Unterstützung eingestellt. Was ist die richtige Reaktion darauf: Meine Mitarbeit an allen Open Source Projekten einstellen? 🤔 #openjdk #jaxrs #maven #liquibase #jcommander #jersey

Since few weeks I have official release manager status at #jcommander, so I wonder what new features you like to see in the next iteration? 🤔#java

Today I released version 1.83 of #jcommander https://jcommander.org/! 🤩 Beware that the Maven Group ID has changed to `org.jcommander` https://central.sonatype.com/artifact/org.jcommander/jcommander/1.83! 🚀 ☕#java

In case you are waiting for my next video 📽️ : Stay tuned! I had lots of work to do, became committer and release manager of #JCommander, contributed lots of PRs to #JCommander 🚀, #Liquibase 🛢️ and #OpenJDK ☕, and finally gave a talk at @jugch 🇨🇭 . But work on the next video has started, and I hope that I can return to my usual video cadence in August. 😅