Hi dev@thrift, I've been working on the Java generator and library recently and have revamped the project a little bit, and for the most part, keeping all changes back compatible.
Recently I've been thinking of introducing a breaking change: dropping the support of Java 8 and bumping the minimal supported version to Java 11. There are 2 main reasons for doing this: 1. while there are extended support by Oracle or AWS, generally Java 8 is too old [1], while Java 11 is the next LTS version 2. there are good JDK level Http 2 and Web socket support [2] but only added since Java 11 - there are libraries that support Http 2 that can also work in Java 8 but having a non-library dependent code is preferable in many situations Would like to hear more feedback on whether this is a good idea, and when is a good timing (e.g. post release 0.17.0?). [1]: https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/java-se-support- roadmap.html [2]: https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/11/docs/api/java.net.http/java/net/http/HttpClient.html
