Release 5.3

[fredericDelaporte]

It is about time to prepare this release I think.

Of course we may merge some more PR, but I think only a few more.

[bahusoid]

Is it last 5.x release? Seems time for 6.0.

How about including multitenancy support in 5.3 (#2108)?

[fredericDelaporte]

Of course having multi-tenancy would be great, but how far is it from being done?

I consider the 5.3 has waited quite too long already. It is one year and a half after 5.2 initial release.
Many other things have been contributed into 5.3, and having to wait long for getting them released is not good for contributors engagement.

I am not personally settled for going to 6.0 after 5.3.
We could have a 5.4, with a shorter development time hopefully, like less than 6 months or even only 3 months. Why not after all?

[bahusoid]

Of course having multi-tenancy would be great, but how far is it from being done?

Well I consider it's ready :)

[lofcz]

I'm just a user of NHibernate but I'd like to voice support for including multitenancy in 5.3, it's a long awaited feature by many users and I'd personally rather wait a week / two than three months best case scenario for it.

[fairking]

For me OData full support which was done thanks to all of you guys. That's what I am waiting for. 👍

Update: Also my friend is waiting for .NET Core full support. In 5.2.7 UWP applications are having compiling problems because of the old .Net framework dependencies (ConfigurationManager).

[fredericDelaporte]

@fairking, about ConfigurationManager, is #2116 enough for your friend case to be fixed?

[fredericDelaporte]

We are one month later, and well, our overall contributing activity seems to me decreasing.

The milestone has two PR which are waiting since long: #2365 and #2010. They both have conflicts with current master, @maca88. #2010 is validated by me, but has a pending review request asked to @bahusoid. #2365 was validated by me but has had some additional comments by @hazzik having incurred changes, without Alexander having acknowledge these changes for now.

Bahusoid is also eager to have #2108 into 5.3, but Gunnar and me have expressed some concerns about how it works, and on my side I remain unconvinced. So I think other contributors should have a look and share their own thoughts.

Should we go on waiting on these PR?

[hazzik]

@fredericDelaporte #2365 and #2010 are fine for me. Mainly were waiting for conflicts to be resovled. I don't have an opinion on #2108 (I never understood uber-monolithic applications where tenants could be switched at runtime) so would rely on others to approve.

[ToGoOrNotToGo]

As a longtime user of NHibernate, I would like to vote to complete release 5.3 now. You guys have done a great job and fixed important bugs (e.g. NH-3865 in 2018) and features. Thanks a lot!

[fredericDelaporte]

Rebased and squashed.
A few documentation PR remains in the milestone, but I think we can release without them: we could still merge them later and republish the documentation, without having to do a new release.

I intend to proceed with the release on next Sunday, if this PR is approved.