Roadmap

Version 2.7

Objectives & Key Results

• Bridge from version 2.6 to version 3.0
  • Remove features deprecated in 2.6
    • Extensions Atom, Guice, GWT, JAXB, OData and Servlet
    • Edition GWT
    • Internal HTTP client and server to rely only on Jetty
  • Modernize the code base using latest Java language features
    • Increase the unit test coverage
    • Upgrade to Java 21 LTS
  • Retrofit as much as possible Restlet API changes from version 3.0
• Embrace latest OAS innovations
  • OAS 3.1 support with dynamic code-first descriptions
    • Retrofit previous Swagger extension
  • Integrate with Swagger Codegen to generate Restlet code
    • Organize OSS contribution
• Simplify user documentation
  • Remove notion of edition for navigation

2.7.0 Milestone 3 (August)

• TBD
• Update version numbers in Engine class
• Update change log (version + date)
• Deliver 2.7.0-m3 to Maven Central

Version 3.0

Objectives & Key Results

• Enable MACH architecture
  • Embrace Microservices, API-first, Cloud-native, Headless
  • Support deployments to Kubernetes with Istio and Knative
  • REST & Protobuf converter as alternative to gRPC
• Embrace latest Java innovations
  • Upgrade to Java 25 LTS
  • GraalVM for reduced startup time
  • Virtual threads for improved scalability
  • HTTPS virtual hosting via SNI
• Reboot web site and documentation
  • Transition website from restlet.talend.com to restlet.org
  • Brand new website and documentation
  • Further embrace GitHub for project management