On Tue, 16 Apr 2024 at 11:21, Jean-Baptiste Onofré <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Martin, > > (finally I received the email from the list cleanly, w00t ;)) > > Thanks for pointing the previous discussion. > > I think 1.12.0 is OK as it's mostly the Java part that gonna be > impacted. I think 2.0.0 would make more sense for a spec change > impacting all languages. > > So, I'm proposing: > - Avro 1.12.0 with Java 11 by default in Java > - Avro 1.11.4 still on Java 8. > It makes sense to maintain both to give users the time to update (and > encourage them to do so :)). > > Thoughts ? +1 > > Regards > JB > > On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 9:54 AM Martin Grigorov <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > There were few discussions about this some months ago, e.g. > > https://lists.apache.org/thread/bd39zhk655pgzfctq763vp3z4xrjpx58 > > I think everyone agreed that 1.12.0 could be bumped to Java 11+! > > https://lists.apache.org/thread/b8d7cjywz6mpj81bhbx5tz6flbvwzsdk - here > > Niels even suggested to bump the version to 2.0.0, but since Avro is > > multi-language repo I don't think changing the version to 2.x for all > langs > > makes sense. > > Users of Java 8 will have to stay with 1.11.x. There was another > discussion > > at dev@ about maintaining both branches for some time. > > > > Martin > > > > On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 4:11 PM Jean-Baptiste Onofré <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > NB: I'm sending this email with my regular email address ;) > > > > > > I'm doing a full pass to prepare Avro 1.11.4 and 1.12.0 releases. > > > > > > I have a question for you: on the main branch (e.g. 1.12.0), I propose > > > to update the Java source/release target version to 11 (instead of > > > 1.8). I'm testing it right now, and so far so good. > > > > > > I'm also preparing some updates and cleanup. I will open the PRs today. > > > > > > Thanks ! > > > Regards > > > JB > > > >
