Release Candidate Pax URL 1.4.0.RC1

The Pax URL team is happy to announce the first release candidate of OPS4J Pax URL 1.4.0 with a number of maintenance updates and bugfixes.

While this release does not contain any major new features, users should be aware of the following changes before upgrading:

Apache Commons Logging (JCL) has been replaced by SLF4J. Users may have to add a bundle satisfying the org.slf4j package dependency (e.g. org.slf4j:slf4j-api or Pax Logging).
Embedded dependencies have been replaced by package imports. Users may have to add new bundles to their systems to satisfy these dependencies.
Deprecated and outdated experimental subprojects have been deleted.

Some compatibility issues have been reported by Apache Karaf users. Please help us to find out if this is just a configuration issue in Karaf or a bug in Pax URL. This issue needs to be sorted out before the final 1.4.0 release.

For more details, see the JIRA release notes below.

As usual, all artifacts are available from Maven Central.

Changes since 1.3.5

Any feedback is welcome, either on the mailing list (general@lists.ops4j.org) or via the issue tracker.