Hi I created a draft for a blog post about dropping java 8 https://github.com/apache/camel-website/pull/627
Feedback and comments welcome On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 10:14 AM Claus Ibsen <claus.ib...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 9:44 AM Zoran Regvart <zo...@regvart.com> wrote: > > > > Hi Claus, > > it should be relatively easy to add requirements to the front matter of > > release notes and have those displayed on the download/release pages. > > We do have a dependencies page[1] in the user manual, so we need a change > > there as well. Tricky bit about that is that we publish a single (latest) > > version of the manual, so that would need to be updated as well. > > In lieu of that, I think there is a issue for creating a “proper” > > requirements page, this could be a generated page if we can determine what > > components (say Kubernetes, Spring/Spring Boot/Karaf/Quarkus… versions) we > > wish to display there. Such a page could be either linked or included > > within the download/release pages… > > > > Okay, sounds good, let's create a JIRA ticket to not forget. > > We officially only support the Java LTS releases, e.g. Java 12-16 is > just an effort. > So it's only Java 8 and 11 so far. > > Java 17 is coming later, first as runtime. > Having support for new features like records and whatnot takes longer > time to incorporate in the bean/simple languages etc. > > > > > zoran > > [1] https://camel.apache.org/manual/latest/what-are-the-dependencies.html > > -- > > Sent from mobile > > > > > On 18. Sep 2021, at 09:20, Claus Ibsen <claus.ib...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Hi > > > > > > Okay so it seems we have consensus to drop JDK8 after the next LTS > > > release (Camel 3.14) by end of this year. > > > This means that in 2022 we have dropped JDK8 in Camel. > > > > > > I think we can put out a blog post on the Camel website about this. > > > > > > Zoran. I wonder if we can get the download page to display a Java > > > version, so we can display it there also. > > > > > >> On Fri, Sep 3, 2021 at 12:18 PM Andrea Cosentino <anco...@gmail.com> > > >> wrote: > > >> > > >> Hello all, > > >> > > >> More and more third party libraries are starting to drop JDK 8 in favor > > >> of > > >> JDK 11 (last one I've found is Optaplanner). > > >> > > >> I think we need to define a release where we totally drop Java 8 Support > > >> and start to build and release with Java 11 only. > > >> > > >> What are your thoughts? > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Claus Ibsen > > > ----------------- > > > http://davsclaus.com @davsclaus > > > Camel in Action 2: https://www.manning.com/ibsen2 > > > > -- > Claus Ibsen > ----------------- > http://davsclaus.com @davsclaus > Camel in Action 2: https://www.manning.com/ibsen2 -- Claus Ibsen ----------------- http://davsclaus.com @davsclaus Camel in Action 2: https://www.manning.com/ibsen2
