After being the first pushing a non-Oracle JAX-RS release on Maven Central, again we (i. e. the committers of Eclipse Project for JAX-RS) set the pace: I just uploaded JAX-RS 2.1.2 to Maven Central, which provides us two new world records. Not only have we been the first team pushing their own first service release to Maven Central (at least IIUC), apparently we are the first team pushing the very first artifact to Maven Central at all using the new group ID prefix jakarta.

After this marketing-triggered service release, our work concentrates on JAX-RS 2.2 now, and in the long term, on JAX-RS 3.0 which we want to publish in 2019.

If you are interested in more about the recent releases and upcoming features, listen to my talks at EclipseCon Europe 2018 and JavaLand 2019.