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Robert Scholte closed MCOMPILER-362. ------------------------------------ Resolution: Won't Fix Assignee: Robert Scholte I'm going to close this as won't fix for now. If you had a look at other issues related to the value of source/target you might have seen that with maven-compiler-plugin 3.8.0 the defaults have been changed to 1.6 due to MCOMPILER-335. In short: every project should specify a source+target and shouldn't rely on the plugin default, because it is not as constant as it should be. The value for source/target are the lowest supported by the latest Java version. This way everybody can create a "Hello World" application with the minimum pom file. So once Java 12 is released, we'll upgrade this value to 1.7 For all details, please read MCOMPILER-335 first. > Change default source/target option to be a bit more modern > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: MCOMPILER-362 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MCOMPILER-362 > Project: Maven Compiler Plugin > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: theminecoder > Assignee: Robert Scholte > Priority: Trivial > > With the impending release of Java 11, I think it's about time that we update > the source/target compiler options to something that isn't (at the time of > writing) 4 major versions behind. > With the amount of libraries that require at least Java 8 and Java 8 being > the current LTS version, I would like to propose that we change the default > to be at least a minimum of Java 8, with the option to change back to the > older compiler versions like how we have to switch to Java 8 currently. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)