Hi On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 4:28 PM Peter Palaga <ppal...@redhat.com> wrote: > > Hi Claus, > > we have announced a similar move for Camel Quarkus some time ago. We did > that based on a similar Quarkus announcement [1]. But when I was about > to perform the necessary changes, it turned out that Quarkus got some > pushback from the users and thus they abandoned the plan without letting > us know - see [2]. As a result, Camel Quarkus also had to revisit the > plan. We have decided to make Java 11 our main build and testing JDK, > but kept both source and target compatibility at Java 8. > > Requiring Java 11+ API on the Camel side would put Camel Quarkus in a > bit uncomfortable position: unlike all other extensions offered via > code.quarkus.io, our extensions would not work on Java 8 in JVM mode. > > We (Camel community) should figure out how to proceed. >
The drop of Java 8 is planned for next LTS (Camel 3.7) which is by end of this year. So there is still 6 months to go. In that time Quarkus may get to a point where they have dropped Java 8 as well. But for Camel 3.5 we can surely wait to drop Java 8 so it does not happen soon on the Camel side. Would ou you go ask the Quarkus team what new timeframe they have for dropping Java 8? > [1] https://quarkus.io/blog/quarkus-1-4-final-released/#java-8-deprecated > [2] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/quarkus-dev/yzEjmYCFbwY/oW64kts3AQAJ > > Thanks, > > -- Peter > > On 26/06/2020 10:23, Claus Ibsen wrote: > > Hi > > > > Just a heads up that from Camel 3.5 onwards we will drop Java 8 support. > > > > So this means that minimum Java version is now Java 11. > > We are also working on adding support for Java 14, but it may take a > > few releases, but its planned for the next LTS 3.7 release to have > > both Java 11 and 14 as supported. > > > > Camel 3.4.x is the LTS release that supports both Java 8 and 11, and > > its supported for 1-year (june 2022). > > > > > > > -- Claus Ibsen ----------------- http://davsclaus.com @davsclaus Camel in Action 2: https://www.manning.com/ibsen2
