Team,
I created the following Jira issue to capture the details of this
discussion:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-10147
We can continue the discussion on this thread, and include more specific
comments on the Jira issue as well.
As mentioned in the Jira issue, we should revisit a m
Pierre and David, I agree with this project goals:
- a 2.x release that drops support for Java 8 (requires at least Java
11) by EOY
- a 3.x release that drops support for Java 11 (requires at least Java
17) in the not-to-distant future, perhaps 2023/24
This would also mean we could
Thanks for the replies Kevin and Pierre!
Various JDK vendors have different timelines for Java 11 support, some
planning to end active support in September 2023 and others in October
2024. Either way, I agree that moving to Java 11 as the minimum version
should be a shorter duration, with the goa
I'd even love to go straight to Java 17 since it's the new LTS version...
but this may be quite a big jump for our community and users.
I guess we can envision a "short" 2.x release line and consider Java 17 for
3.x.
Definitely approve the proposal!
Le mer. 15 juin 2022 à 18:50, Kevin Doran a écr
Thanks for reviving this discussion David. In light of those core
dependencies dropping support for Java 8, this plan seems necessary for
NiFi. I support the proposal.
Thanks,
Kevin
On Jun 15, 2022 at 11:48:05, David Handermann
wrote:
> Team,
>
> With multiple major projects in the process of s
Team,
With multiple major projects in the process of sunsetting support for Java
8, we should also prepare a timeline for removing Java 8 support from
Apache NiFi and subprojects.
BACKGROUND
The Jetty project announced the end of community support for version 9 as
of 2022-06-01 [1]. Although Jet
