Hi, I'm +1 to bump the minimum JDK requirement to v17 for Avro 1.13 (main branch).
Martin On Wed, Nov 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM Andrew Lamb <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'd like to start a discussion about updating Avro's minimum supported > Java version from 11+ to 17+ and dropping support for JDK 11. > > The main motivation for this change is to allow us to upgrade Jetty from > 9.4.x to 12.1.0. Jetty versions 9 through 11 have reached end of life. See > Jetty Version Support and Documentation for details: > https://jetty.org/docs/jetty/12/index.html. Moving to Jetty 12 will keep > us on a maintained version that continues to receive updates and security > fixes. > > The proposed Jetty uplift is being tracked here: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-4192. > > Before proceeding, I'd like to get input from the community on whether > anyone foresees issues with raising the minimum JDK requirement to 17. > > Thanks, > Andrew Lamb >
