Java 11 support in Cassandra 3.11 would be fantastic. Is this something the > Cassandra project will follow-up or is this a dead-end in favor of > Cassandra 4.0, although Java 11 is marked as "experimental" there. Not sure > what this means for production usage. 😊 >
Hi Thomas, backporting to 3.11 probably won't be a task taken up by the community, with all focus and effort currently on 4.0. That's not to say it can't happen after 4.0.0. Leaving Java 11 marked as "experimental" was discussed here: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r38f6beaa22e247cb38212f476f5f79efdc6587f83af0397406c06d7c%40%3Cdev.cassandra.apache.org%3E Java 11 is getting tested and equal treatment to Java 8, so this is more just about using all available resources to first get 4.0 GA out. I suspect it will move from experimental to supported in one of the early 4.0.x patch versions, once we get more feedback on its usage. Feedback from users will help. regards
