We never got a final official policy. I believe the consensus was at least:
* all Java versions currently supported by Oracle and one back on a Major version bump. I think we should go with all Java versions currently supported by Oracle on a Minor version bump... but there was some grumbling from Chris and I didn't want to fracture the community at the time. I think with Oracle being more strict it is reasonable that we start moving on up. Thus if we are to have a policy I would say that every minor version release is supposed to work with any version line of Java that was under public free support by Oracle at the time of the first release in our minor version line. Or in other words, 3.3.x would be JDK7 & JDK8 (it may work with JDK9 but we cannot know until that is released) Moving our base JDK up will allow us to compile with JDK7 bytecode which will improve startup performance according to the rumours I have heard. On 5 March 2015 at 15:53, Jason van Zyl <[email protected]> wrote: > Stephen, as the keeper of long discussions we've had about JDK versions > what did we actually decide a while back? > > On Mar 5, 2015, at 7:43 AM, Stephen Connolly < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > +1 > > > > On 5 March 2015 at 12:19, Igor Fedorenko <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> With maven core version change to 3.3.0 on master, any objections I > >> change compile source/target to java 7? > >> > >> -- > >> Regards, > >> Igor > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >> > >> > > Thanks, > > Jason > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Jason van Zyl > Founder, Takari and Apache Maven > http://twitter.com/jvanzyl > http://twitter.com/takari_io > --------------------------------------------------------- > > Selfish deeds are the shortest path to self destruction. > > -- The Seven Samuari, Akira Kurosawa > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
