[Exist-open] [ANN] Preparing for eXist-db 7.0.0

[Adam R. <ad...@ex...>]

I would like to make the community aware that the mainline of
development for eXist-db will soon move from the 6.x.x series to the
7.x.x. series.

As such the develop branch of the eXist-db GitHub repository (i.e.
https://github.com/exist-db/exist/tree/develop) will be updated by
Thursday 19th January to bump the current version number from
6.2.0-SNAPSHOT to 7.0.0-SNAPSHOT. After that we will also start
merging into the develop branch outstanding Pull Requests that target
eXist-db 7.0.0.

As always the eXist-db project follows the SemVer 2.0.0 standard of
versioning (https://semver.org/), and so a major version change, i.e.
6.x.x to 7.x.x indicates a version of eXist-db that has
non-backwards-compatible changes.

This is only of note to you, if for some reason you are dependent on
building from the develop branch. If that is the case, we would
consider setting up a develop-6.x.x branch... please just contact Adam
Retter <ad...@ev...> to discuss it.

Kind regards. Adam.

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Adam Retter

eXist Core Developer
{ United Kingdom }
ad...@ex...