I completely agree. Going to Java 17 is the right thing to do at this point for 2.10.
Cheers, Matt Op ma 6 mei 2024 om 14:11 schreef Hans Van Akelyen < hans.van.akel...@gmail.com>: > Hi All, > > Following our somewhat regular release schedule the time has come to wrap > up our 2.9 release. I will take the job as release manager an plan to cut > the branch on the 17th of this month. > If you are working on things that you would like to have included in this > release make sure to wrap them up a couple of days before the cut-off date. > > I would also like to take this moment to discuss 2.10. My personal opinion > is that we should start moving forward to a Java 17 release. All the large > projects we depend on have moved to Java 17 and Java 11 has entered the > ramp-down support phase. Updating to a newer java version does not mean we > should do a major release... I have performed a preliminary check and the > upgrade should be fairly straight forward at first sight. We have about 50 > tests failing but other than that everything seems to work. > > Let me know what you think. > > Cheers, > Hans >
