Hi Okay so the blog post is short and to the point. Thanks for the feedback and corrections. I have merged it so we can get the word out on the street.
On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 9:45 AM Claus Ibsen <claus.ib...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 -- Claus Ibsen ----------------- http://davsclaus.com @davsclaus Camel in Action 2: https://www.manning.com/ibsen2
