Hi, Summary:
For requirements as 3.9.0 we have: +1: Christoph Läubrich, Sylwester Lachiewicz, Slawomir Jaranowski, Matthias Bünger, Romain Manni-Bucau, Manfred Moser, Olivier Lamy, Hervé Boutemy, Benjamin Marwell, Sergey Chernov So I have prepared: https://github.com/apache/maven-site/pull/1456 On Sat, 8 Nov 2025 at 13:51, 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 > -- Sławomir Jaranowski
