Hi, +1 from me.
Supporting 2, and at most 3 LTS versions (17, 21 and 25) has my preference. IMHO, that gives a good mix between new language features and compatibility with legacy systems. Kind regards, Oscar -- ✉️ Oscar Westra van Holthe - Kind <[email protected]>🌐 https://github.com/opwvhk/ On sa 8 nov 2025, 08:07 Jean-Baptiste Onofré <[email protected]> wrote: > +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 >
