Lukas Jungmann

@arjantijms there is the `re-request review` button/feature which one can use to get attention. Usually more helpful

> but EclipseLink is rather committed to the 2 query process not exactly true. There are currently 4 ways (and some with alternatives) to get the sequence number, for identity,...

Tomas will be back from vacation next week…

See https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/jaxb-api/issues/194

not sure reliance on default constructors falls to this but we should definitely address it (see [JDK-8250212](https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8250212) for details)

> Is there a reason for dropping support for Oracle 9 and older? Is it getting in the way of something? see https://www.oracle.com/us/support/library/lsp-tech-chart-069290.pdf Oracle DB 8 - EOL Dec 2006...

the main blocker was the CVE-2018-14718 (or sth similar) and another security thing related to java deserialization - for both issues fixes were submitted last week. Given vacations, final build...

95% of changes in master from M3 are related to tests (~2k "new", few more k updated, some fixed etc)

If nightly build pass tonight, RC1 will be tomorrow

4.0.0-RC1 is in central