I've changed the nightly docker jobs to also create "-java21" images for main, branch_9x and branch_9_4, so we can start testing this out before making it official.
The new images should become available in the next 24 hours. e.g. apache/solr-nightly:9.4.1-SNAPSHOT-java21 - Houston On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 12:19 PM Houston Putman <hous...@apache.org> wrote: > We could also use Java 21 for the 9x and main nightly images! Easy to > change it in the Jenkins jobs > > - Houston > > On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 6:22 PM Jan Høydahl <jan....@cominvent.com> wrote: > >> I agree on being conservative here. But if it turns out to work well, we >> could consider publishing an additional solr:9.4.0-jre21 tag. That way >> early adopters have a choice. If I remember correctly, Java 21 has some >> improvements that can benefit some vector workloads or something, so I see >> a benefit in getting it out there. We could alternatively opt to push >> temporary images like this to our own apache/solr docker namespace for >> folks to try out. >> >> Jan >> >> > 24. okt. 2023 kl. 18:17 skrev Shawn Heisey <apa...@elyograg.org.INVALID >> >: >> > >> > On 10/18/2023 10:11 AM, Tomasz Elendt wrote: >> >> I noticed that JDK 21 LTS was released some time ago. Is there any >> reason why official docker images still use JDK 17? >> >> I'm asking because I know there are some preview JDK features that >> Lucene utilizes and Solr enables them when it detects a newer version (e.g. >> SOLR-16500). >> >> Does it make sense to switch now that there is a new LTS version? >> > >> > I have no desire to stand in the way of progress, but Java 21 has only >> been out for a month. I don't think it's a good idea to rely on a new >> major version of *anything* that soon after its release. Test with it, but >> don't switch to it. >> > >> > I do not think we should be planning on such a major upgrade to the >> docker image until Java 21 has been out for a while. I was going to >> upgrade my Solr server to Java 21 to try it out since it's not a mission >> critical install, but Ubuntu doesn't yet have OpenJDK packages for it. The >> eclipse-temurin:21-jre-jammy docker image was pushed 11 days ago. >> > >> > My thought on it is to wait until at least the release of Java 22, >> which will happen six months after Java 21 was released. >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Shawn >> > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@solr.apache.org >> > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@solr.apache.org >> > >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@solr.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@solr.apache.org >> >>
