Huge Wolverine 3.13 Release

Wolverine is part of the larger “Critter Stack” suite that provides a robust and productive approach to Event Driven Architecture approaches in the .NET ecosystem. Through its various elements provides an asynchronous messaging framework, an alternative HTTP endpoint framework, and yes, it can be used as just a “mediator” tool (but I’d recommend using Wolverine’s HTTP support directly instead of “Wolverine as MediatR”). What’s special about Wolverine is how much, much more it does to reduce project boilerplate, code ceremony, and the complexity of application code compared to other .NET messaging or “mediator” tools. We the Wolverine team and community would ask that you keep this in mind instead of strictly comparing Wolverine as an apples to apples analogue to other .NET frameworks.

The Wolverine community has been busy, and I was just able to publish a very large Wolverine 3.13 release this evening. I’m happily going to use this release as a demonstration of the health of Wolverine as an ongoing OSS project because it has:

• Big new features from other core team members like Jakob Tikjøb Andersen‘s work with HTTP form posts and [AsParameters] support
• A significant improvement in the documentation structure from core team member JT
• Huge new features from the community like Luis Villalaz‘s addition of an AWS SNS transport for Wolverine
• An F# usability improvement from the Critter Stack’s de facto F# support owner nkosi23
• New feature work sponsored by a JasperFx Software client for some specific needs, and this is important for the health of Wolverine because JasperFx support and consulting clients are directly responsible for making Wolverine and the rest of the Critter Stack be viable as a longer term technical choice
• Quite a few improvements to the Kafka transport that were suggestions from newer community members who came to Wolverine in the aftermath of other tool’s commercialization plans
• Pull requests that made improvements or fixed problems in the documentation website — and those kinds of little pull requests do make a difference and are definitely appreciated by myself and the other team members
• New contributors, including Bjørn Madsen‘s improvements to the Pulsar support

Anyway, I’ll be blogging about some of the highlights of this new release starting tomorrow with our new HTTP endpoint capabilities that add some frequently requested features, but I wanted to get the announcement and some thanks out to the community first. And of course, if there’s any issues with the new release or old bits (and there will be), just ask away in the Critter Stack Discord server.

Wrapping Up

Large OSS project releases can sometimes become their own gravity source that sucks in more and more work when a project owner starts getting enamored of doing a big, flashy release. I’d strongly prefer to be a little more steady with weekly or bi-weekly releases instead of ever doing a big release like this, but a lot of things just happened to come in all at once here.

JasperFx Software has some contractural obligations to deliver Wolverine 4.0 soon, so this might be the last big release of new features in the 3.* line.