This is the 5th release candidate of the new major version of Kryo (see also the RC1 release notes for major changes of v5).

This RC comes with several improvements over the previous RCs, e.g. there's now a completely self-contained, versioned artifact with zero dependencies for usage of Kryo in libraries. The full list of changes from RC4 to RC5 can be found here.

For migration from previous major versions please check out the migration guide. We're asking the community to help and contribute this part: please edit the migration wiki page as you encounter any information or issues that might help others.

Compatibility

Due to big changes 5.0.0 is both source/binary incompatible and serialization incompatible to previous major versions - for details see the RC1 compatibility report.

Compatibility of 5.0.0-RC5 to RC4:

• Serialization compatible
  • Standard IO: Yes
  • Unsafe-based IO: Yes
• Binary compatible - No (Details)
• Source compatible - No (Details)