Benjamin Marwell ☕I might have started something... 🤭
#java17 #java21 @ASFMavenProject
Apache Maven 4 might require Java 17...
Deven Phillips@infosec812
Thanks! Depending on the time line of Maven 4, we even might bump it to Java 21... But that's nowhere near final, only single voices so far.
The biggest problem is actually to explain that:
1. Maven 3.9.x will work for a while
2. Even with Maven on JDK21, you can still use -release=7
3. Even with Java 22, you can use toolchains to build with just any JDK.
@infosec812
We call those people "aligners" - those who want to align the Maven runtime with the compiler and the target runtime.
Often there's little to no advantage in that.
joschi@bmarwell
Re 2: No you can't (without using another JDK <20 via toolchains). https://inside.java/2022/09/26/quality-heads-up/
Karl Heinz Marbaise (he/him)@joschi @bmarwell @infosec812 @ASFMavenProject @sparsick JDK 21 supports --release 8 but already with WARNINGs... Java 7 is not supported anymore ...
@khmarbaise
You're both right, JDK17 is last which supports seven.
Still good enough and nowhere near a blocker imo.