Java 8 was released in 2014, almost a decade ago.Since then there have been two Long-Term Stability releases: Java 11 (2018) and 17 (2021).
I'm wondering whether we still have anyone who really needs to run Xalan on Java 8, or if we can/should move our minimum requirement forward at least to 11 since some of our tooling may start to require it soon.
If we agree this change is acceptable/desirable, I can post a note to the users list asking whether people would scream.
We could also add a Java version check in Xalan at startup (if there isn't one already) warning folks when they are on an unsupported or deprecated level of Java, and declare 8 deprecated for a while.
Not a high priority, but worth considering. Does Apache have anything resembling a recommendation on this? -- ` /_ Joe Kesselman (he/him/his) -/ _) My Alexa skill for New Music/New Sounds fans: / https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09WJ3H657/Caveat: Opinionated old geezer with overcompensated writer's block. May be redundant, verbose, prolix, sesquipedalian, didactic, officious, or redundant. Feel free to call him on it.
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