Also, java.time classes. Gary
On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 1:54 PM Benedikt Ritter <brit...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi Matt, > Am Di., 21. Aug. 2018 um 16:12 Uhr schrieb Matt Benson <mben...@apache.org > >: > > > Do you have specific new features or deprecations in mind to accompany > the > > bump? > > > > I'd like to add some helpers for working with java.util.Optional for > example. There are most certainly more opportunities for new Lang APIs once > we have access to the functional interfaces in java.util.function. > > java.lang.Objects and java.lang.Arrays also got some new methods in 1.8 > which make methods from ObjectUtils and ArrayUtils obsolete. > I also hope that we can deprecate parts of the time package because in Java > 1.8 there is the new date and time API. > > Regards, > Benedikt > > > > > > Matt > > > > On Tue, Aug 21, 2018, 7:00 AM Pascal Schumacher < > pascalschumac...@gmx.net> > > wrote: > > > > > +1 > > > > > > Am 20. August 2018 19:09:27 MESZ schrieb Benedikt Ritter < > > > brit...@apache.org>: > > > >Hi, > > > > > > > >any objections against raising the minimum required Java version for > > > >lang > > > >3.9 to Java 1.8? > > > > > > > >Regards, > > > >Benedikt > > > > > >
