Thank you for the heads up Chris. So I think this means we are now free to use all the newfangled language features since Java 11 (min required for Lucene 9.x) -> Java 21?
Mike McCandless http://blog.mikemccandless.com On Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 3:58 AM Chris Hegarty <christopher.hega...@elastic.co.invalid> wrote: > Hi, > > A number of us have been iterating on a PR to bump the Lucene main branch > to a minimum of Java 21 [1]. The work is in a good state and is almost > ready to commit. > > While the changes themselves are not large, the impact is arguably larger. > So I’m raising awareness here with the wider group. > > Clearly one could conflate the bump to Java 21 with the question of when > will Lucene have a next major release, but those issues, while somewhat > related, are orthogonal. My position is that the next Lucene major should > be on Java 21, regardless of when that will happen. > > Comments, feedback, suggestions welcome. > > Thanks, > -Chris. > > [1] https://github.com/apache/lucene/pull/12753 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org > >
