will next.jdbc finally replace the current jdbc?

Eventually (one hopes!)

What else should happen to do so? It seems like it already has

@i next.jdbc is the 1.0 release that clojure.java.jdbc never got (and never will). I don't intend to do any more work on c.j.j except perhaps for any serious security bugs that get found.

The only changes to c.j.j since I started work on next.jdbc have been very minor and mostly fixative.

I certainly "strongly encourage" everyone to migrate and if they're only just getting started with SQL in Clojure, I tell folks to start with next.jdbc 🙂