Re: [Lazy Consensus] Minimum JDK build and run policy (dropping JDK 8)

[John Neffenger]

+1 from me for the proposal.

On 4/3/23 2:38 AM, Neil C Smith wrote:
Three JDKs will be supported at any one time - the current JDK, plus
the previous two LTS releases. eg. NetBeans 20 and 21 (Nov 2023 / Feb
2024) will support JDK 11, 17 and 21. NetBeans 22 (May 2024) will
support JDK 17, 21 and 22.

This plan works well from my perspective using Ubuntu Linux.

The release this month (April 2023) of Ubuntu 23.04 (Lunar Lobster) 
supports OpenJDK as follows:

  JDK 11 is moved from "main" to "universe"
  JDK 17 is moved from "universe" to "main"
  JDK 21 first shows up in "universe"

where the "main" repository is fully supported by Canonical, and the 
"universe" repository is supported by Canonical only with an Ubuntu Pro 
subscription or with support from the community.

Package openjdk-11-jdk-headless
https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=openjdk-11-jdk-headless&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all

Package openjdk-17-jdk-headless
https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=openjdk-17-jdk-headless&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all

Package openjdk-21-jdk-headless
https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=openjdk-21-jdk-headless&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all

So basically, Ubuntu switches to a fully-supported JDK 17 in April 2023, 
with several other JDK releases available as less-supported options.

John

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