On Mon, 26 Aug 2019, 01:11 Eirik Bakke, <[email protected]> wrote: > > So I vote for NB 12 to drop support for Java 11 > > Java 11 was released less than a year ago... _way_ too early to stop > supporting. >
Too right! There's an open bug report that we accidentally dropped Java 7 support in 11.1, which I think is fixed in 11.2. In my opinion we should aim to always support current and previous Java LTS as a baseline, so 8 and 11 for the foreseeable. Unless we actively want to whittle down the user base?! And we should not encourage anyone to stick on our older, particularly non-LTS, releases either. Nor drop features in an LTS release. On JavaFX though, I'd suggest adding the revised OpenJFX archetype templates in 11.2, and give serious consideration to dropping most of the legacy JavaFX stuff in 11.3 (prior to next LTS, but not rushed now?). Could look to stagger to ensure people can work with existing legacy projects for a while longer? Could also hide/rename/remove samples now I guess? Best wishes, Neil
