Hi, What will happen on GitHub CI when Maven 4 is released? Do you expect CI build to magically switch from 3.9.x to 4.0.0?
TY, Gary On Sat, Nov 8, 2025 at 7:51 AM Slawomir Jaranowski <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Maven 3.8.x is now marked as EOL [1] > > We have a page which describes the minimum requirements for a plugin > [2] after the Maven version marking EOL. > Last time we used the last EOL version, so consequently we should > start using 3.8.3 for it. > > Currently we only use Maven 3.9.x in GitHub CI [3], so if we dedicate > to use 3.8.3 we need to add it to be sure that plugins still support > such a version. > > We also can start using 3.9.0 for plugins and not need to test the EOL > version. > > The question is which version of Maven should be now used as minimum > requirements in plugins? > > 1. 3.8.3 - with add to CI matrix > 2. 3.8.3 - without adding in CI matrix > 3. 3.9.0 - no extra version in CI matrix is needed > 4. don't care about it ... take a hope that will be not a problem > > So which one way do you prefer? > > [1] https://github.com/apache/maven-site/pull/842 > [2] https://maven.apache.org/developers/compatibility-plan.html > [3] https://github.com/apache/maven-gh-actions-shared/pull/207 > > -- > Sławomir Jaranowski > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
