On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 6:03 AM sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Note that Java 7 has extended support until July 2022. > > https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/java-se-support-roadmap.html > > Is there any pressing need to move to Java 11? >
I'm not sure there is a pressing need, depending on how you define pressing need, but the work is already done/ready to merge and multiple folks have expressed support for the upgrade. I think it makes sense to modernize Roller and dependencies and Java 11 is generally better than 1.7 and 1.8. Dave > On Sun, 9 Jun 2019 at 22:10, Dave <snoopd...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I've been running Roller 6.0.0-SNAPSHOT under Java 11 on my site for a > > while now. Unless somebody objects, I plan to merge boostrap-ui which > > contains the new Boostrap UI for Roller and moves Roller to Java 11 this > > week. > > > > Thanks, > > Dave > > > > > > On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 4:59 AM Greg Huber <gregh3...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > for java11 email was troublesome as jaf was removed, also now its > morphed : > > > https://eclipse-ee4j.github.io/javamail/ > > > <dependency> > > > <groupId>com.sun.mail</groupId> > > > <artifactId>jakarta.mail</artifactId> > > > <version>1.6.3</version> > > > <scope>provided</scope> > > > </dependency> > > > > > > Cheers Greg > > > > > > On Sun, 12 May 2019 at 19:26, Dave <snoopd...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > We've got a Pull Request that adds support for Java 11 in Roller. > > > > https://github.com/apache/roller/pull/14 > > > > > > > > Is anybody opposed to merging this PR and moving Roller's master > branch > > > to > > > > Java 11? > > > > > > > > I think the next major release of Roller (6.0) should include the new > > > > Bootstrap based UI and should run on Java 11. Java 8 has been EOLed > and > > > > Java 11 is the current LTS version, so IMO it makes sense to upgrade. > > > > > > > > I plan to continue to maintain Roller 5.x on Java 8 for the > foreseeable > > > > future. > > > > > > > > Dave > > > > > > > >
