An irony support timeline, JDK8 has longer(one year at least) than JDK11, at least for now.
-Java https://endoflife.date/java Notice, Java 8 has longer support than Java 17, OMG... - adoptium(was adoptopenjdk) https://adoptium.net/support/ Sheng Wu 吴晟 Twitter, wusheng1108 kezhenxu94 <kezhenx...@apache.org> 于2023年2月13日周一 20:13写道： > > Hi all, as promised, I've just removed Powermock and migrated all our tests > from junit 4 to junit 5 in our main repo[1], also I've verified > that the tests can be run successfully in Java 17 with some > tweaks, see the commend in the PR. > > But please note that, there is still a dependency powermock-reflect left, > we cannot remove it because we currently heavily depend on the reflection > util `org.powermock.reflect.Whitebox;`, if you search globally for `powermock` > this must be the only place occurs, all reviewers please don't approve to > merge > pull requests that brings Powermock back. > > Also I'm planning to move our development baseline and even runtime baseline > to Java 11, > if you have any concern please let me know, of course I'll start up a new > thread to discuss > that and vote on that. > > > [1] https://github.com/apache/skywalking/pull/10382 > > > On Jan 31, 2023, at 13:52, kezhenxu94 <kezhenx...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > Hi all, recently I'm trying to add a plugin to support Spring 6[1], > > which has a minimum requirement of Java 17 and Jakarta 9. > > > > In order to compile our Java agent with the Spring 6 plugin, > > we have to set the baseline of the development JDK to 17, > > but we still keep the runtime baseline as Java 8 compatible. > > > > So this should only impact the experience of SkyWalking developer, not > > SkyWalking users. > > > > Another noteworthy thing I did in the pull request[1], is that, > > I've removed Powermock completely from skywalking-java repository and > > there is no reason we would bring it back in the future. > > I'll also try to remove it in the skywalking main repo. > > > > This is a future-prove work that would block us from upgrading the JDK > > baseline to Java 8+, > > or upgrading the Junit framework to Junit 5. > > > > So be careful when you review contributors' pull requests, if they bring > > Powermock back, don't approve to merge. > > > > [1] https://github.com/apache/skywalking-java/pull/444 > >
