Hey Andrew, A lot of projects have already moved on, so I think it is reasonable to move to JDK 17 in the next major release.
Kind regards, Fokko Op do 6 nov 2025 om 13:50 schreef Martin Grigorov <[email protected]>: > 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 > > >
