We have just released Vert.x 3.8.1, a bug fix release of Vert.x 3.8.x.

This version updates to Netty 4.1.39.Final fixing the following HTTP/2 related CVEs:

• CVE-2019-9512: Ping Flood
• CVE-2019-9514: Reset Flood
• CVE-2019-9515: Settings Flood
• CVE-2019-9518: Empty DATA frame flooding

Since the release of Vert.x 3.8.0, quite a few bugs have been reported. We would like to thank you all for reporting these issues.

• Vert.x 3.8.1 deprecations and breaking changes

• https://github.com/vert-x3/wiki/wiki/3.8.1-Deprecations-and-breaking-changes

Vert.x 3.8.1 release notes

• https://github.com/vert-x3/wiki/wiki/3.8.1-Release-Notes

The artifacts have been deployed to Maven Central and you can get the distribution on Bintray.

You can bootstrap a Vert.x 3.8.1 project using https://start.vertx.io.

The event bus client using the SockJS bridge are available from NPM, Bower and as a WebJar:

• https://www.npmjs.com/package/vertx3-eventbus-client
• https://github.com/vert-x3/vertx-bus-bower
• http://www.webjars.org/

Docker images are also available on the Docker Hub. The Vert.x distribution is also available from SDKMan and HomeBrew.

Happy coding and see you soon on our user or dev channels.