I agree with moving to Java 17. Fortunately, I have tried it here and there and everything I run seems to work. Currently, I am using Java 11 for Hop 2.8 and 2.9 when I report things and use it.
On Mon, May 6, 2024 at 7:11 AM Hans Van Akelyen <hans.van.akel...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >
