This is already done on the Git. On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 7:02 PM Daniel Dekany <ddek...@apache.org> wrote:
> I propose increasing the lowest supported Serlvet/JSP versions to 3.0/2.2, > starting with the next release (FreeMarker 2.3.33). From Tomcat > perspective, that's Tomcat 7 (2011-01-14, EOL since 2021-03-31). This > will simplify the source code and the build a bit, which will also come > handy for generating the Jakarta version. > > Currently (2.3.32) the lowest version we support is Serlvet 2.4 and JSP > 2.0, and then there's some special support class for JSP 2.1 (that's a > complication we could drop with this). With Tomcat versions: 2.4/2.0 is > Tomcat 5 (2003-12-03), and 2.5/2.1 is 6 (2007-02-2, EOL 2016-12-31). I > think somebody who still uses such ancient servlet containers is unlikely > to care about updating FreeMarker. > > Any thoughts? >
