Jakarta Contexts and Dependency Injection CDI 4.1

The Jakarta Contexts and Dependency Injection 4.1 goals for this release are described in the issues associated with the CDI 4.1/5.0 milestone label. The associated issues can be found by viewing this link:

https://github.com/jakartaee/cdi/milestone/1

The current scope of the issues includes:

• Breaking up spec/TCK to remove circular dependencies
• Method invokers
• Getting interceptor bindings in standard way
• @Priority on producers
• Review unused imports in classes in CDI 4
• How can getReference() legally be invoked during AfterDeploymentValidation event if contexts have not been created yet?
• Programmatic access to Assignability rules
• Add methods to BeanConfigurator for applying decorators
• List of potential changes/features for next CDI version
• Base Java SE version to use in APIs
• Improve wording of managed bean requirements WRT non-static public fields
• Inconsistent behavior when finding unproxyable bean
• possibly remove the references to the Managed Beans specification
• possible rename of Jakarta Bean Validation to Jakarta Validation
• previous rename of Jakarta Server Faces to Jakarta Faces
• Assignability of raw and parameterized types for type variables with multiple bounds (CDI-440) spec-clarification