Hi all, We will plan to drop the Java 8 support starting from Sedona 1.8.0. This means: 1. We will compile our source code using JDK 11. 2. We will start to use new APIs provided by Java 11, in the source code. 3. Users will no longer be able to run Sedona on any Java 8 environment.
Currently, Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, AWS Glue / EMR, GCP all provide hosted Spark service with Java 11 in at least 1 LTS version. By using Java 11, this will unblock us to use the latest release of GeoTools, Apache SIS, and being able to release to Snowflake (SedonaSnow). Please feel free to share if you have any questions or concerns. Thanks, Jia
