Thank you, Yi! On Wed, Jul 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM Ahmed Abualsaud via dev <dev@beam.apache.org> wrote:
> Amazing, thank you Yi! > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2025 at 4:59 PM Yi Hu via dev <dev@beam.apache.org> wrote: > >> 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 >> >> >>
