Hi Dominik Thanks for your message.
I was wondering if we should not bump to Java 11 min in Aries now. I don't see a lot of third party using Java 8. We can move forward on Java 17 min after this round of releases. Thoughts ? Regards JB On Thu, Jan 8, 2026 at 5:37 PM Dominik Przybysz <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi JBO, > it's great to hear :) > > You raised a question about minimal Java version supported in > https://github.com/apache/aries/pull/414#issuecomment-3721877884. > > I thought that since Java 8 is still supported it would be right version, > but there are less and less libraries supporting it. I feel we should > together decide about the minimal version of Java we want to have in Aries. > > Maybe we would like to declare some policy about supported versions e.g. > that we support 2 or 3 last LTS versions of Java? > Current bnd supports java 17 as the mininal version. On the other hand I > see that Apache Karaf is still supporting java 11+ > https://karaf.apache.org/download.html. > > WDYT? > > czw., 8 sty 2026 o 06:01 Jean-Baptiste Onofré <[email protected]> > napisał(a): > >> Hi everyone, >> >> I apologize for the delay in my response. I am back to working on Aries >> and >> will now review the CI and dependencies in preparation for the new >> releases. >> >> I look forward to collaborating with you all, particularly Dominik, on >> this. >> >> Regards, >> JB >> >> On Mon, Nov 10, 2025 at 6:11 AM Jean-Baptiste Onofré <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > Hi everyone, >> > >> > I would like to propose a new set of Aries releases (proxy, blueprint, >> > etc). >> > >> > I have some fixes on the way, and I can start the preparation. >> > >> > Any objections? >> > >> > Regards >> > JB >> > >> > > > -- > Regards, > Dominik Przybysz >
