+1, especially since Spark 4 will only support Java 17+ On Tue, May 6, 2025 at 2:04 AM Jia Yu <ji...@apache.org> wrote:
> 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 > -- Adam Binford
