It may be a little surprising to users to have the minimum Java version bumped in a minor release, but there is precedent for such a move. From ActiveMQ 5.15.9 to 5.15.10 the minimum Java version was bumped to 8. Most users are probably already on 11+ so I'm OK with it.
Justin On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 10:42 AM Clebert Suconic <clebert.suco...@gmail.com> wrote: > I would like to propose requiring JDK 11 as a minimal requirement on > ActiveMQ Artemis on master, to be released as 2.17 > > > JDK 8 is about end of life, and that would open up better > possibilities on what we write in Artemis. JDK 8 is pretty old at this > point and we need to move on. > > > > Anyone would object? > > > > -- > Clebert Suconic > >
