SmallRye Fault Tolerance 6.11.0 release announcement

Author: Ladicek

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+:page-layout: post
+:page-title: Fault Tolerance 6.11.0
+:page-synopsis: SmallRye Fault Tolerance 6.11.0 released!
+:page-tags: [announcement, microprofile]
+:page-date: 2026-03-16 15:00:00.000 +0100
+:page-author: lthon
+:smallrye-ft: SmallRye Fault Tolerance
+:microprofile-ft: MicroProfile Fault Tolerance
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+= Fault Tolerance 6.11.0
+
+Today, we announce the https://github.com/smallrye/smallrye-fault-tolerance/releases/tag/6.11.0[release] of {smallrye-ft} 6.11.0.
+This release contains one small improvement.
+
+Previous versions of {smallrye-ft} did not support Java modularity (JPMS) at all.
+With this version, automatic module names are provided for all useful modules.
+The test suite modules do not have automatic module names, because they are never supposed to be used publicly.
+The OpenTracing Context Propagation module is obsolete and should not be used these days, so it does not have an automatic module name either.
+(Among other deprecated things, it will be removed in {smallrye-ft} 7.0.)
+
+Note that to improve internal consistency and make sure that the module name is the same as a top-level package name of all classes in the module, a small number of internal classes were moved in this release.
+Advanced integrators (such as Quarkus) need to take care, but this should be an invisible change for users.
+
+We intend to provide full module descriptors in the future, but cannot do that at the moment.
+This is because certain dependencies, notably the {microprofile-ft} API JAR, do not provide either automatic module names or module descriptors.
+
+As usual, if you have any ideas for improvements, please https://github.com/smallrye/smallrye-fault-tolerance/issues[file an issue]!