A community guy kudos here :) It is a good time, a lot of important projects have already planned the Java 8 baseline drop, and support will start to be an issue in the next few years. Java 11+ is on the top usage now and new versions usage will increase with the next JDK planned features.
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On Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 12:55 PM Ian Turton <ijtur...@gmail.com> wrote: > +1 > > On both proposals > > Ian > > On Wed, 31 Aug 2022, 10:21 Jody Garnett, <jody.garn...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Okay, updated proposal to target dropping Java 8 for GeoServer 2.23.0. >> >> Jody >> >> On Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 10:34 AM Andrea Aime < >> andrea.a...@geosolutionsgroup.com> wrote: >> >>> +1 on switching to Java 11 only on main, I'm between a -0 and a -1 on >>> dropping on 2.22.0 too. >>> >>> Dropping Java 8 support in 2.22.0, as it would give the user base only 6 >>> months before GeoServer stops supporting Java 8 altogether >>> (2.20.x is about to get its last release, 2.21.x will live only up to >>> March 2023). >>> >>> The 2.21.0 release already contained a warning >>> <https://geoserver.org/announcements/2022/05/24/geoserver-2-21-0-released.html>, >>> quoting: >>> "This is likely to be the last release that supports Java 8 and we >>> encourage users to start to make the transition to Java 11 during the >>> lifetime of this branch." >>> >>> The message was too easy to ignore IMHO, I'd prefer to have a 2.22.0 >>> with a title stating in unequivocal terms "This is the last release >>> supporting Java 8, upgrade now". >>> >>> Cheers >>> Andrea >>> >>> On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 8:15 PM Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Please see https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/wiki/GSIP-215 for >>>> details, general idea is to drop Java 8 support so we can update >>>> dependencies and plan Jakarta migration. >>>> >>>> Thanks to foss4g code sprint and Euan Mitchell for initial pull request >>>> for docs: >>>> - https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/pull/6137 >>>> >>>> If this proposal is ready for the 2.22.0 release it would simplify the >>>> process of setting up build jobs for the new release cycle. 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