If I could be permitted to slight restate what Julien just said: We will make a note of it, as we have done in the past, such as when the default moved from java6 to java7: http://www.gwtproject.org/release-notes.html#Release_Notes_2_6_0_RC1. That being said, we of course welcome any community assistance in maintaining GWT, and documentation is an excellent place to get started and make significant contributions without going through the code review process that GWT requires.
Java6 has been EOL'd for almost three years, though technically Java7 has also reached that stage (last April). As long as we hang on to support for Java6, we would be unable to use new classes/methods/features of Java7 (and Java8), excepting the use of something like retrolambda like Thomas suggested. We would likewise welcome any testing in that area after performing an automated change to the gwt-servlet.jar. If you find problems or discover that it works perfectly, and if you share the build scripts you used to achieve it, that would make it easier to include these changes into the official release. On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 8:47 AM Julien Dramaix <julien.dram...@gmail.com> wrote: > Feel free to fill a patch for that :) > > On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 2:28 PM István Horváth <armo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> it would nice to have if you update the release notes page with exact >> dates on all of the version on both the links and the linked details too. >> >> http://www.gwtproject.org/release-notes.html >> >> >> 2015. december 4., péntek 10:51:13 UTC+1 időpontban Daniel Kurka a >> következőt írta: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> we just finished testing for GWT 2.8.0-beta1. You can either download it >>> from goo.gl/62SeR5 or from maven central. >>> >>> Release notes can be found here >>> <http://www.gwtproject.org/release-notes.html#Release_Notes_2_8_0_BETA1> >>> . >>> >>> Please start testing and let us know about any issues you encounter by >>> either discussion here or filing bugs on github >>> <https://github.com/gwtproject/gwt/issues/new>. >>> >>> -Daniel >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "GWT Contributors" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to google-web-toolkit-contributors+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-web-toolkit-contributors/06401611-3eeb-4647-9fca-69459939aa8d%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-web-toolkit-contributors/06401611-3eeb-4647-9fca-69459939aa8d%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "GWT Contributors" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to google-web-toolkit-contributors+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-web-toolkit-contributors/CABb_3%3D5%3DYLe_WNJbvc48mmfRO8Ds1WqqtDwNvhhPD3C66DJHpQ%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-web-toolkit-contributors/CABb_3%3D5%3DYLe_WNJbvc48mmfRO8Ds1WqqtDwNvhhPD3C66DJHpQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GWT Contributors" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-web-toolkit-contributors+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-web-toolkit-contributors/CADcXZMxguUkafyvfEG%3DwtuMOoCEfchvenxyfDWxi07D39nvs%2BA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
