> I am shocked to have discovered that Oracle have actually added
> #getApplicationProtocol method to SSLEngine class in an a bloody patch
> release!

Right?! It was technically a "Maintenance Release" of the platform spec
(MR3), but it's still completely astonishing. I'm not sure there's any
precedent for it.

On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 11:24 AM Oleg Kalnichevski <ol...@apache.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 2021-05-26 at 10:49 -0700, Ryan Schmitt wrote:
> > -1. I think staying on JDK8 is for the best. Adoption of JDK11 has
> > been
> > quite poor, due to a lack of compelling new language features that
> > would
> > make upgrading worthwhile, and even ALPN and TLSv1.3 (the most
> > relevant
> > JDK11 features for our purposes) have now been backported to JDK8.
>
> I am shocked to have discovered that Oracle have actually added
> #getApplicationProtocol method to SSLEngine class in an a bloody patch
> release!
>
> That basically eliminates the only really strong reason to upgrade to
> Java 11.
>
> I think we can scrap the idea.
>
> Oleg
>
>
>
> > I'd
> > rather skip JDK11 and target JDK17 once it's ready. JDK17 will ship a
> > number of major new language features (records, text blocks, switch
> > expressions, instanceof pattern matching, sealed classes), as well as
> > some
> > JDK features that might be relevant to us, such as support for Unix
> > domain
> > sockets.
> >
> > I'd also point out that log4j2 is apparently planning on upgrading to
> > JDK11
> > in their next release. I'd prefer to wait and see how their
> > experience goes
> > before we do anything.
> >
> > On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 5:29 AM Oleg Kalnichevski <ol...@apache.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Folks
> > >
> > > How do you feel about upgrading all the way to Java 11 for the 5.2
> > > release series and not Java 8?
> > >
> > > I am quite certain Java 17 will be out by the time we are done with
> > > HC
> > > 5.2 development and we again will be one LTS version behind.
> > > Besides we
> > > can keep the 5.1 release series going as long as it takes as the
> > > same
> > > time.
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > >
> > > Oleg
> > >
> > >
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