> On Jan 28, 2020, at 1:22 PM, Christopher Shannon
> <christopher.l.shan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> We definitely do not want to remove JDK 8 support for 5.16.0 so my vote is
> for option 1. I think it's fine if we build with JDK 8 as long as it
> supports JDK 8 - 11 at runtime.
>
> For 5.17.0 we can work on building with JDK 11. For one thing I think we
> should just make it easier on ourselves and remove LevelDB entirely as it
> has been deprecated now for several major versions and there isn't any
> reason to keep it at around at this point.
+1 dropping levelDB
>
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 7:58 AM Jean-Baptiste Onofré <j...@nanthrax.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I would like to move forward on ActiveMQ releases:
>>
>> - ActiveMQ 5.15.12
>> I'm preparing several dependency updates and important fixes on the
>> activemq-5.15.x branch. It includes some security fixes, postgresql jdbc
>> store performance improvements, ...
>> I have some PRs under review and on the fly, so, I plan to submit
>> 5.15.12 to vote next week.
>>
>> - ActiveMQ 5.16.0
>> I did a full pass (standalone and in Apache Karaf) with JDK 11. The
>> broker works without problem, including on Karaf 4.2.8.
>> However, it's not currently possible to fully build with JDK 11. I have
>> a branch where I did the required changes (remove the use of tools.jar
>> in openwire generator, add annotation and jaxb dependency in different
>> modules, update scala for leveldb, ...).
>> The question that I have is about what's the exact target for 5.16.0:
>> 1. We still build ActiveMQ 5.16.x with JDK8, but it supports both JDK8
>> or JDK11 at runtime.
>> 2. I do the changes required to build with JDK11, and then we will only
>> support JDK11 at runtime.
>> Thoughts ?
>> Anyway, I would like to submit 5.16.0 to vote asap, so please, let me
>> know what you think about JDK support (build or/and runtime).
>>
>> Regards
>> JB
>> --
>> Jean-Baptiste Onofré
>> jbono...@apache.org
>> http://blog.nanthrax.net
>> Talend - http://www.talend.com
>>
