If no one has further concern about it, let's go for it. This would be the last call. I would suggest having a release to wrap up all the fixes and changes in current 1.0.x and then let's make the major change for JDK 11 as lightweight as possible.
Best, Junkai On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 8:45 AM Komal Desai <kom...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > Is there any conclusion on if we can proceed with the JAVA version > bump-up to JDK11 ? > > thanks, > komal > > On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 8:16 PM Junkai Xue <junkai....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Thanks Komal for proposing this and thanks Will for the suggestion! My > two cents here: JDK17 has more backward incompatibilities, which may > require major version change from 1.0 -> 2.0. Also a Java11 support in the > middle could be good for all Helix users, which gives more options. > > > > Best, > > > > Junkai > > > > On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 6:08 PM Komal Desai <kom...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> I believe in taking a small step first. If we have smooth sailing with > >> JDK11, then next step JDK17. > >> > >> thanks Will. > >> komal > >> > >> On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 4:58 PM William Morgan <will...@morgan-fam.com> > wrote: > >> > > >> > If there were a move for Java versions, why not move to 17 (the > latest LTS)? I don’t believe there were many breaking changes between those > 11 and 17 and nothing even as close as the pain of jumping from 8 to 11. > The only limiting factor I’m guessing would be the zookeeper libs, though a > cursory search doesn’t show any issues with Java 17. Overall I would be for > getting off Java 8 and would be even happier if we ended up on 17, though > 11 would be fine. > >> > > >> > Thanks, > >> > > >> > Will > >> > > >> > > >> > > On Oct 21, 2022, at 5:52 PM, Komal Desai <kom...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > > > >> > > > >> > >> > >> > >> Hello Helix user and developer community, > >> > >> > >> > >> Helix has been using JDK-8 as default for the last few years. > >> > >> Newer JDK versions have improved performance and improved > functionalities. > >> > >> > >> > >> I wanted to propose that we move Apache Helix project from using > JDK-8 to JDK-11 to leverage better performance. > >> > >> > >> > >> Please let me know how you would like me to proceed. > >> > >> > >> > >> thanks, > >> > >> Komal Desai (desaikomal) > >> > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Junkai Xue > -- Junkai Xue
