+1 It makes to me to use JDK17+ min, especially regarding the Jetty update. I did the change on ActiveMQ (for Jetty), so happy to help on AVRO-4192.
Regards JB On Wed, Nov 5, 2025 at 6:03 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
