I'm not sure anything really requires Java 8.  I could probably easily put it
back to Java 7.  I think I bumped it up when I was trying to get things to build
under Java 11.

I guess I just thought that by now, no one will be using Java 7, since it's been
out of maintenance for a while.  (Oracle ceased public availability of security
fixes and upgrades for Java 7 as of April 2015).

Because of this, I thought that it would not be a major change for most users -
I think they wouldn't notice; so in practical terms, an unnoticed change might
not warrant a bump to 2.11  :-).

If you feel strongly, I'll redo the release without changing the target to java
8 (leaving it at 7), but I think it would be work for no real-world benefit.

-Marshall

On 11/6/2018 4:31 PM, Richard Eckart de Castilho wrote:
> On 5. Nov 2018, at 17:01, Marshall Schor <[email protected]> wrote:
>> The minimum Java version was changed from 7 to 8. 
> IMHO that should warrant a 2.11.0 release instead of a 2.10.3. It is quite a 
> major change for a simple bugfix-level release.
>
> -- Richard

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