Introducing Apache Sling 10
Published on by Dan Klco
The Apache Sling project recently announced the latest version of our runnable distribution, Apache Sling 10 or Apache Sling X if you are a fruit company fan. And much like the latest fruit product release, this release of Apache Sling is 32% skinnier and costs 200% more, after all, it's still free! What's New in Apache Sling 10? Apache Sling 10 introduces a number of tweaks, enhancements, and whole new features, some of the highlights include: Renaming release artifact from launchpad to starter Java 9 / 10 Support to allow for running Apache Sling in Java versions 7-10 (theoretically since Oracle has not released Java 10) Update to Oak 1.6.8 - Tons of bug fixes and improvements from the Jackrabbit / OAK team Switch to tiki-parsers from tiki-bundle. This is what helped Apache Sling drop 32% in size from 9-10. By only embedding the parsers, this significantly reduces the size of...