The Apache James developers are pleased to announce James server 3.9.0 release.

Early adopters can download it, any issue can be reported on our issue tracker.

The Apache James PMC would like to thank all contributors who made this release possible!

Announcement

This release brings the following significant changes:

• Upgrade javax -> jakarta. See related upgrade instructions.
• Upgrade Java 11 -> 21. See related upgrade instructions.
• JAMES-2586: A performant Postgres based implementation of Apache James. Usable in a standalone context but can scale as well with components like RabbitMQ, OpenSearch and S3.

This releases also delivers numerous bugfixes, improvements and performance enhancements.

Release changelog

The full changes included in this release can be seen in the CHANGELOG.