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> The reason I am reluctant with adding a timestamp to the `State` itself (besides what I already wrote in #3033) is that State updates on the event bus are...

@ghys Except the `configDescriptionUri` in .jar files: Isn't this all covered by your extensions?

I was about to write the same. The [documentation](https://www.openhab.org/docs/developer/bindings/config-xml.html) is quite clear: it is necessary to set `false` if you define options and want to allow other values.

Yes or implement what @cweitkamp suggested.

Do you see something like `Exception while formatting value '{}' of item {} with format '{}': {}` in the log? It should be logged at WARN level. I can't reproduce...

Also see the discussion in #3000

@DerOetzi Are you still interested and working on this?

Do you by chance still have the .kar? In the marketplace it's replaced by a .jar and I would like to check if we can harden the marketplace code.

I think what happens here is not a "catastrophic failure". An exception is logged (from, Karaf, we can't do anything against that) and then everything continues to work. There might...

I agree with all the other points, but I would prefer to have separate PR for that (at least for OSGi and #2805). Nashorn is related to the Java 17...