Hi, Currently several build plugins cannot be upgraded because the newer versions require Java 11+. So I'm working on this and I have a partially working pull request
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-3716 https://github.com/apache/avro/pull/2118 One of the things I ran into is that currently the main library MUST be built with JDK 8 because otherwise the code referring to theUnsafe simply won't build. Now there is already special code in place to use a reflection based system that is used if you are not running on Java 8. Since "everyone" I know is already running on Java 11 and 17 I propose to - kick theUnsafe code, making the code in that area a lot simpler. - Build the entire project with JDK 17 (or 11, but I prefer going to the latest LTS version) - Make it still produce Java 8 compliant code where possible (so just about everywhere but not Thrift). - Have checks in place to do a simple basic test using Java 8 (toolchains) One of the effects is that the build on Github will no longer use the "matrix" build and will build the project only once (I expect it to become faster because of that). Your opinions on this? -- Best regards / Met vriendelijke groeten, Niels Basjes
