I'm all in favor of making 17 the requirement for 2.0 On a related note, I was asked by one of our devops guys if 17 was a good idea for 1.X. I know we support it, but is it considered just as good as 11 for 1.21+?
On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 6:15 PM Kevin Doran <kdoran.apa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yeah I agree it makes sense to move to 17… as long as we are introducing a > potential disruptive migration, we should move to the version we can > support longer rather than 11 which will land us back in the same situation > we were in with 8 EOL > ________________________________ > From: Pierre Villard <pierre.villard...@gmail.com> > Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2023 4:10:47 PM > To: dev@nifi.apache.org <dev@nifi.apache.org> > Subject: Re: [discuss] nifi 2.0 and Java 17... > > Hey Joe, > > I'd recommend doing the move right now and say that NiFi 2.0 requires Java > 17. And we would focus on Java 21 with NiFi 3.0. > I honestly don't see any value in absolutely keeping support for Java 11 > right now. > > Pierre > > Le mer. 31 mai 2023 à 19:22, Joe Witt <joew...@apache.org> a écrit : > > > Team, > > > > We've discussed in the past having NiFi 2.0 move from Java 8 to Java 11 > as > > the required minimum while also working on Java 17. > > > > As we move on in time though we are now 4 months (Sept) from. Java 11 > > openJDK going end of support. Meanwhile, the Spring 5.x line goes end of > > support as of next year and Spring 6.x requires Java 17. Also Java 21 > > comes out in Sept as well and is already the next LTS release. > > > > I am increasingly of the view that we should seriously discuss/consider > > moving to Java 17 as our basis for NiFi 2.0 as otherwise it basically > means > > we'll be forced to move to NiFi 3.0 quite quickly. > > > > We already know we can build and run on Java 17 so we're good there. > We'll > > soon want to do the same for Java 21 ... and the more 'old stuff' we hold > > on to the harder it is. > > > > Who will be seriously impacted by the removal of Java 11 and what was > your > > plan for upgrading to Java 17? > > > > thoughts? > > > > Thanks > > >
