Zheng Feng <zh.f...@gmail.com> 于2023年1月13日周五 21:04写道： > > I'm not pushing to drop JDK 8 now but I wonder if it is possible to > maintain two LTS versions of shardingsphere. e.g. 5.x for JDK 8 and 6.x for > JDK 11 above.
New features end, from my understanding, this is the end of support of JDK8. Maintaining mode is only about high-priority bug fixing, and no enhancement, no new feature, no performance improvement. With time, many things can't cherry-pick back to the JDK 8. > > Sheng Wu <wu.sheng.841...@gmail.com> 于2023年1月13日周五 20:58写道： > > > From my side, only if there are key improvements for JDK 11, we are > > worth taking that risk. Especially, whether these things are JDK 11 > > compiling only. > > SkyWalking chose to use ShardingSphere proxy, but we discussed the > > possibilities of ShardingJDBC, but if we made that choice(JDBC lib), > > this change would totally make SkyWalking no choice but to stay in the > > old release or remove this feature. > > > > This will be many of our end users' position if we announce that. > > > > JDK 8 actually has a longer LTS than JDK 11. JDK 8 - At least Nov > > 2026, JDK 11 - At least Oct 2024 > > Source from Temurin(was, OpenJDK) https://adoptium.net/support/ > > > > It will surprise everyone, ShardingSphere community removed the > > primary and widely used JDK version, and move on to another > > dead-earlier version :( > > > > If this is a vote for the future, I would say -1. > > > > > > Sheng Wu 吴晟 > > Twitter, wusheng1108 > > > > Zheng Feng <zh.f...@gmail.com> 于2023年1月13日周五 16:54写道： > > > > > > Yeah, I understand your concern for supporting the legacy applications > > > especially for such users who have been using it in the production > > > environment. But from the point of innovation, I think it would be great > > to > > > use the latest JDK which has many new impressive features. And sooner or > > > later, we still have to face the problem of dropping JDK 8. So why don't > > we > > > consider it for now? > > > > > > I don't think 200+ modules is a BIG problem for maintaining work. You can > > > see Apache camel which has 500+ modules but still supports 3 LTS > > versions. > > > > > > There could be some way to help us to do backporting work such as using a > > > github bot. > > > > > > Anway, I also think it would be an opportunity to think about the RoadMap > > > of shardingsphere. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Zheng Feng > > > > > > zhangli...@apache.org <zhangli...@apache.org> 于2023年1月13日周五 14:42写道： > > > > > > > There are lots of legacy applications still using Java 8. > > > > ShardingSphere-JDBC is a java lib, not standalone process, the LTS of > > Java > > > > 8 is necessary. > > > > > > > > But there are 200+ modules in ShardingSphere, so I am afraid nobody > > > > can undertake the costs of maintain 2 different versions. > > > > > > > > ------------------ > > > > > > > > Sincerely, > > > > Liang Zhang (John) > > > > Apache ShardingSphere > > > > > > > > > > > > 吴伟杰 <wuwei...@apache.org> 于2023年1月12日周四 10:57写道： > > > > > > > > > I also want to use the Java 11 or 17. > > > > > We have had to do some special handling in codes to avoid performance > > > > > issues in Java 8 (such as JDK-8161372 [1]). > > > > > > > > > > [1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8161372 > > > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > Weijie > > > > > ----------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > > > Wu Weijie 吴伟杰 > > > > > Apache ShardingSphere PMC > > > > > GitHub@TeslaCN > > > > > > > > > > Zheng Feng <zhf...@apache.org> 于2023年1月11日周三 20:18写道： > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > > > > > This thought is coming from upgrading antlr to 4.10.1 [1] which is > > only > > > > > for > > > > > > Java 11 now. Currently it looks like that the Hibernate 6.0.x [2] > > and > > > > > > Quarkus 2.15.x [3] integrations has been blocked by this upgrading > > > > issue. > > > > > > > > > > > > I think it could be some other 3rd party libraries with this > > similar > > > > > issue > > > > > > sooner or later. So it is time to think about the plan to drop JDK > > 8 in > > > > > > shardingsphere now. > > > > > > > > > > > > I know this is BIG breaking change that could impact a lot of > > people > > > > who > > > > > > use the shardingsphere. Also it is not very clear in current > > roadmap > > > > [4] > > > > > > and the document for support JDKs. > > > > > > > > > > > > So my plan is to keep 5.x branch which sticks to JDK 8 and should > > be a > > > > > LTS > > > > > > version (I'm not sure how long we will be like to support it?). > > Then > > > > bump > > > > > > the master branch to 6.0 to drop JDK 8 support as soon as possible. > > > > There > > > > > > will be a little bit much more maintenance works with 5.x and > > master > > > > > > branches. > > > > > > > > > > > > What the others think? and we definitely need a formal voting > > process > > > > for > > > > > > this plan after this discussion. > > > > > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > Zheng Feng > > > > > > > > > > > > [1] https://github.com/antlr/antlr4/releases/tag/4.10.1 > > > > > > [2] https://github.com/apache/shardingsphere/pull/20119 > > > > > > [3] > > > > https://github.com/quarkiverse/quarkus-shardingsphere-jdbc/issues/84 > > > > > > [4] > > > > > > > https://shardingsphere.apache.org/document/current/en/overview/#roadmap > > > > > > > > > > >
