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Bryan Pendleton commented on DERBY-7157:
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I've struggled with this same question myself. It wasn't obvious to me that
10.17 was JDK 21+., either.
The way we've dealt with this in the past was to document things on
[https://db.apache.org/derby/derby_downloads.html] , but that is getting
increasingly clunky. For example, the top of the page where it says "For Java 8
and higher", "For Java 9 and higher", etc. could easily make you think that the
various releases have no known upper bound, but I don't think that's true.
Documenting the valid releases in multiple places will help with
discoverability, but it might also be time to re-arrange that downloads page in
a way which makes it more clear that some of these decades-old releases are in
a different category. Perhaps a paragraph at the top covering the major
boundaries (when Modules were released, when Security Manager was dropped,
etc.)?
> Tasks for releasing Derby 10.17.1
> ---------------------------------
>
> Key: DERBY-7157
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-7157
> Project: Derby
> Issue Type: Task
> Components: Build tools
> Reporter: Richard N. Hillegas
> Assignee: Richard N. Hillegas
> Priority: Major
> Attachments: derby-7157-01-aa-draftReleaseNotes.diff,
> derby-7157-02-aa-initialSTATUSupdate.diff,
> derby-7157-03-aa-updateDocConstants.diff,
> derby-7157-04-aa-updateReleaseProperties.diff,
> derby-7157-05-aa-bumpReleaseNumberOnTrunk.diff,
> derby-7157-06-aa-newDataDictionaryVersion.diff,
> derby-7157-07-aa-recordBranchesOnWebsite.diff,
> derby-7157-08-aa-updateAntVersion.diff
>
>
> Placeholder for activity related to producing a 10.17.1 release.
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