I don’t think a major version change should be necessary just because the JDK dependency changed. Changing the major version number should tied to major changes in the project itself.
I am curious to know what dependencies now only run on Java 11. Ralph > On May 3, 2019, at 5:02 AM, Ferenc Szabo <szabofe...@apache.org> wrote: > > Hello Flume devs > > I was looking into the Java 11 support in Flume and some of the > dependencies are not compatible with Java 11 and does not have compatible > versions within the same major version. > > Also, some of them have security vulnerabilities that have been fixed in > another major version. > > What do you think about updating dependencies to a higher major version and > possibly losing some backward compatibility in 1.10? Or should we move to > 2.0 with more effort and updating there? Also adding some framework changes > that would enable us to implement things we could not do in a minor version. > > We should create a roadmap for us containing library updates, new > components and framework improvements. > > Regards, > Ferenc Szabo
