I also want to use the Java 11 or 17. We have had to do some special handling in codes to avoid performance issues in Java 8 (such as JDK-8161372 [1]).
[1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8161372 Regards, Weijie ----------------------------------------------- Wu Weijie 吴伟杰 Apache ShardingSphere PMC GitHub@TeslaCN Zheng Feng <[email protected]> 于2023年1月11日周三 20:18写道： > > Hi all, > > This thought is coming from upgrading antlr to 4.10.1 [1] which is only for > Java 11 now. Currently it looks like that the Hibernate 6.0.x [2] and > Quarkus 2.15.x [3] integrations has been blocked by this upgrading issue. > > I think it could be some other 3rd party libraries with this similar issue > sooner or later. So it is time to think about the plan to drop JDK 8 in > shardingsphere now. > > I know this is BIG breaking change that could impact a lot of people who > use the shardingsphere. Also it is not very clear in current roadmap [4] > and the document for support JDKs. > > So my plan is to keep 5.x branch which sticks to JDK 8 and should be a LTS > version (I'm not sure how long we will be like to support it?). Then bump > the master branch to 6.0 to drop JDK 8 support as soon as possible. There > will be a little bit much more maintenance works with 5.x and master > branches. > > What the others think? and we definitely need a formal voting process for > this plan after this discussion. > > Regards, > Zheng Feng > > [1] https://github.com/antlr/antlr4/releases/tag/4.10.1 > [2] https://github.com/apache/shardingsphere/pull/20119 > [3] https://github.com/quarkiverse/quarkus-shardingsphere-jdbc/issues/84 > [4] https://shardingsphere.apache.org/document/current/en/overview/#roadmap
