Sounds like a plan to me we have to adopt the new JDK release schedule somehow anyway, we cant stick on java 8 now it is EOL and java 11 soon so today only java 17 is a fair option for users.
Romain Manni-Bucau @rmannibucau <https://twitter.com/rmannibucau> | Blog <https://rmannibucau.metawerx.net/> | Old Blog <http://rmannibucau.wordpress.com> | Github <https://github.com/rmannibucau> | LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/rmannibucau> | Book <https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/java-ee-8-high-performance> Le jeu. 1 juin 2023 à 08:28, Guillaume Nodet <gno...@apache.org> a écrit : > JDK 8 active support ended 15 months ago, so I think that's definitely fine > to require a newer version. I don't think we should wait and support JDK 8 > until 2030 and then switch from JDK 8 to what, JDK 24 ? That's really not a > good plan imho and that's what maintenance branches are used for. The JDK > release cycle has changed and the whole java ecosystem is adapting to this > faster release cycle. > > So I think we should: > * maintain a 3.x branch with JDK 8 and provide bug fixes > * set up 4.x branches to require at least the oldest actively supported > JDK at the time the first micro version is released (so that would be 17 by > the time 4.0.0 comes out) and 21 by the end of 2026 (maybe 4.2.0 ?) > JDK 17 can still target JDK 8 for compilation, so that should cover most > needs. > > If needed, we could even automatically download a JRE 17 at first usage > (using [1] but we'd have to check for upgrades, etc...) and continue the > work for discovering toolchains [2], etc... to help users. We could also > make JDK toolchains much easier to use by modifying the project model and > adding specific support for it. That would allow selecting the toolchains > very early in the build, thus allowing toolchain based jdk activation, and > would make the configuration much simpler. Though I have a feeling that > all this is not really necessary... > > Guillaume > > [1] https://foojay.io/ > [2] https://github.com/apache/maven-toolchains-plugin/pulls > > Le mer. 31 mai 2023 à 21:17, Michael Osipov <micha...@apache.org> a écrit > : > > > I also would like to point out that OpenJDK 8 support will surpass 11 by > > 2030: https://endoflife.date/java > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > > > > > > -- > ------------------------ > Guillaume Nodet >
