A very timely question. I was already planning to raise this as a
discussion after we update our boot JDK to JDK 16 (blocked by the
in-progress gradle 7 update), which I hope to do later this week.
I think that this is the right time to consider bumping the minimum
required version to run JavaFX 17 to JDK 16, which would allow us to
start using APIs and language features from JDK 12 through JDK 16 inclusive.
In general, we only guarantee that JavaFX N runs on JDK N-1 or later. In
practice, though, we don't bump it for each release, as there are some
advantages in being able to run with the latest JDK LTS. Since JavaFX 17
will release at roughly the same time as JDK 17 LTS, I can't think of a
good reason to not update our minimum.
Comments?
-- Kevin
On 5/18/2021 7:59 AM, Michael Strauß wrote:
Currently, JDK 11 is required for the latest version of OpenJFX. What
is the policy for bumping this requirement? Does it always correspond
to the latest JDK LTS release (the next of which will be JDK 17), or
is it independent from the release cycle of OpenJDK?
