Guice 6.0.0 & 7.0.0 Release

[sameb]

Hello Everyone,

I'm pleased to announce the releases of Guice 6.0.0 & 7.0.0.

• Guice 6.0.0: The release page has more details, but the TL;DR is that this release fixed a number of bugs, closed all open pull requests, and added jakarta.inject support alongside the existing javax.inject support. (The jakarta.inject support is almost complete, with the caveat that binder(..).toProvider() methods aren't supported for jakarta providers.) Again, see the release notes for complete details & explanations of the javax -> jakarta change. The servlet & persist extensions remain javax only for Guice 6.0. Guice 6.0 is intended as an incremental migration aid towards Guice 7.0.

• Guice 7.0.0: The release page has more details, but the TL;DR is that this release is identical to 6.0.0, except it only supports the jakarta.inject namespace. The servlet & persist extensions also only support jakarta.servlet & jakarta.persistence respectively. All support for javax.inject, javax.servlet, and javax.persistence are removed from Guice 7.0+.

As mentioned in the release candidate announcement, I would also like to take a moment to honor Bob Lee's memory. Bob created Guice (along with Kevin Bourrillion) back around 2007. Although Bob went on to do many other exciting things, Guice's longevity is a testament to his intuition & genius. He was also just a really, really nice guy. I know I will sorely miss Bob, and the world is a worse place without his presence.

The Guice 6.0 & 7.0 releases are dedicated to Bob.