Agree. With a server, we could upgrade to a newer version of JDK. Let's see whether we could commit JDK 11 and JDK 17 compiling support, and run in JDK 11 officially.
Sheng Wu 吴晟 Twitter, wusheng1108 kezhenxu94 <kezhenx...@apache.org> 于2023年2月13日周一 21:14写道： > > Hi all, recently I've merged a pull request[1] that migrates our tests in > main repo > from junit 4 to junit 5, I've also verified the tests passed in Java 11 and > above, > now, I'm proposing to upgrade the minimum required Java version, including > development environment (JDK version), and runtime environment (JRE version) > to Java 11. > > Java 8 is a popular version, there are a lot of projects still using it, > but fact is fact, Java 8 is really old and there are lots of fascinating > features > in Java 11 that we will benefit in our development experience, there are also > some performance improvements that we will benefit at runtime, so I would be > really excited if we could bump up the Java version to Java 11. > > What do you think? If you have any concern, please reply here and we can > discuss > more before we make a decision, if you are excited too to upgrade the Java > version, > please vote here! > > [1] https://github.com/apache/skywalking/pull/10382
