[paho-dev] EPL version 2 and general update

[Ian Craggs <icraggs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A quick update for everyone, committers especially.

1) It's required that we update to the EPL version 2.0 from the current 
1.0, as 1.0 is being deprecated.  This is a drop in replacement for the 
existing 1.0 file in each repo, and there may be some references to the 
version number in some of the other doc files.  I'll be updating the 
repos I'm responsible for in the next few weeks, and then checking up on 
the others.  Please do update yours if you can.

EPL v2: https://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0/

as a text file: https://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/epl-2.0/EPL-2.0.txt

If you want to know why this change is being made, see here: 
https://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0/faq.php#h.hz76esowpykz

2) I have wanted to update the Paho website (and logo for that matter) 
for a while.  I only just realized that the new Eclipse theme is 
available 
(https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse.org-common/themes/solstice/docs/) which 
would provide a clean new look.  It also (I *think*) will allow us to 
reinstate the Twitter feed widget, which I would really like.  I'll have 
to confirm that part.  If any committer would like to volunteer to help 
out with this, let me know.

3) I've been working on several MQTT 5.0 updates.

    - I released the C client MQTT 5.0 support last year

    - I've just completed a PR for Python MQTT 5.0 support, except for 
doc.  I hope that will be able to be made available fairly soon. 
(https://github.com/eclipse/paho.mqtt.python/pull/334)

    - I'm in the middle of creating a new Java client implementation 
for MQTT 5.0 based on the Vert.x framework.  It's in the vertx branch of 
the Java client repo if anyone wants to try it out.  
(https://github.com/eclipse/paho.mqtt.java/tree/vertx)

    - I've not had time to get to the JavaScript client for this 
unfortunately.  I'm hoping to get some help in IBM in June to help me 
with this and other updates.

4) Al has provided a beta version of MQTT 5.0 support for Golang: 
https://github.com/eclipse/paho.golang/releases/tag/v0.9.0

5) Two new client libraries from EMQ (https://www.emqx.io) are in the 
process of being contributed along with committers for them. I'll say a 
bit more about that soon.

If anyone else has any news or questions, please let us know!

If there is anyone out there who would like to contribute in any way, 
also please feel free to speak up - thanks.

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Ian Craggs
icraggs@xxxxxxxxxx                 IBM United Kingdom
Eclipse Paho Project Lead & Mosquitto Committer