Apache Rampart 1.8.0 is a major release designed for compatibility with Axis2 1.8.2.
A huge amount of effort went into upgrading everything possible up to jakarta - namely opensaml to 4.3 and ws-wss4j to 3.0.3.
This will be the last javax based release. The next Rampart release will be 2.0.0 and will support Axis2 2.0.0, Jakarta, servlet 6.0 and EE 10. This should happen soon as the hardwork in Axis2 2.0.0 has been done already. The biggest expected challenge will be the OpenSAML upgrade from 4.x which supports javax, to 5.x which supports jakarta.
The Apache Rampart project and our top level Axis project covering Axis2 needs committers!
GitHub PR's are welcome too. If you have an interest in a feature that Rampart lacks or simply found a bug you can help with, please think about contributing.
Jira issues completed for 1.8.0: