Jochen Schalanda

There are currently no further plans for *Dropwizard Metrics 5.x*. Once there are, you will be able to see the scheduled work in the [5.0.0 milestone](https://github.com/dropwizard/metrics/milestone/22).

> Ok, that's fine, but what I can't find is the reasons there are no further plans. There are currently not enough active maintainers and contributors pushing the agenda forward....

@hdost Sorry that I sounded too harsh. The issue right now is a lack of people who would be willing to invest substantial time and work into Dropwizard Metrics 5.x....

> I noticed that metrics-servlets module in 5.x branch , for example, still uses Servlet API 4: @sergey-morenets Would you be able to provide a forward-port of https://github.com/dropwizard/metrics/pull/1730 into the...

@sergey-morenets Or better, port the missing functionality from `release/4.2.x` to `release/5.0.x`?

> Thank you for suggestion. But I'm not sure if I have even permissions to work on this project. @sergey-morenets You can fork the project and create a pull request....

@arteam Could you please reconcile the `5.0-development` and `release/5.0.x` branches (#1735) and port the changes from `release/4.2.x` to `release/5.0.x` (#1736)?

@shahbaaz31here It's simple: If somebody steps up as a permanent maintainer for the Dropwizard Metrics 5.x branch, we can release it.

See also https://marekhudyma.com/dropwizard,metrics/2020/06/01/dropwizard-metrics-misleading-behaviour.html

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