[ANNOUNCEMENT][NEW]: Torque 5.0 released in September 2020

[Georg Kallidis <ge...@cedis.fu-berlin.de>]

Hi Torque Community,

Did you expect it? Yet, there it is: A new release of Torque version 5.0 !

Labelled version 5.0 it is still considered highly compatible with version 
4.

This will bring finally a lot of refactoring to the public, see all 
details below. 

This release contains the following updates:

- 81 resolved JIRA issues: 

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TORQUE-359?jql=project%20%3D%20TORQUE%20AND%20status%20%3D%20Resolved%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%205.0


- that is, a lot of bugfixes, cleanup and refactoring, e.g. 
time/date/timestamp-string formatting, deprecated DBCP1 adapters, DBCP2 is 
the default now.
- Updated almost all plugins, build and database dependencies, major 
updates e.g. Velocity 2.0, Groovy 3.0.4, Log4J2, JUnit 5.
- Java 8 
- Tested and build in Java 8, 11 14 with JUnit 5. New Docker testcontainer 
profiles for mysql and postgresql added, butother databases could use this 
approach as well. Check out the svn repo and add your code in torque-test!
- New refactored Torque ant task Torque4JDBCTransformTask, which uses the 
velocity code generation mechanism and allows again generating the Torque 
schema from a database.

Looking for more technical details?

Just have a look into the updated site 
https://db.apache.org/torque/torque-5.0/index.html,
https://db.apache.org/torque/ might take a while to update.

Find the artifacts here:
https://db.apache.org/torque/torque-5.0/download.html
https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/db/torque/torque-5.0/
and the keys to check the signatures here: 
https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/db/torque/KEYS.

If you decide to use it, or want to commit code, you will find the new 
source trunk for the SNAPSHOT in svn here: 
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/db/torque/trunk/, or check 
https://db.apache.org/torque/torque-5.0/developer-info/subversion.html!

Feel free to contribute questions, proposals and of course code - 
and last but not least, thanks to all the contributors!

Best regards, 

Torque Dev