Hi Beam Developers, As part of Java8 deprecation [1], Beam repo now requires Java11+ to build jars from Beam repository sources.
* What's affected: Commit [2] upgraded certain Gradle plugins that dropped Java 8 support. As a result, build Beam using Gradle now requires Java11+ in JAVA_HOME or PATH. * What's not affected: The byte code compatibility of Beam Java artifacts aren't changed. It's still on Java 8 until Beam 3.0, as planned. Users can still use Java 8 to build their own pipelines, though it's deprecated since Beam 2.66.0 [3]. Prior to that, individual optional modules (e.g. IOs) may drop Java 8 support earlier due to upstream dependency support status. For example, DebeziumIO will require Java17+ since Beam 2.67.0 ([4]). Thanks for your attention! [1] https://github.com/apache/beam/issues/31678 [2] https://github.com/apache/beam/commit/01768c3787bf16c0c6d3cc0d377e81b0ee4f22d0 [3] https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/35064 [4] https://github.com/apache/beam/issues/34747 -- Yi Hu, (he/him/his) Software Engineer
