Taking the notes from GoCD stance ( https://www.gocd.org/2019/05/21/official-stance-on-java/) and looking at IntelliJ blog post ( https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2018/09/using-java-11-in-production-important-things-to-know/), and OpenJDK releases page (https://jdk.java.net/archive/) and assuming my understanding is correct,
It seems like you get LTS support only for paid version of Oracle JDK not for the OpenJDK variants. On Wed, Jun 2, 2021, 7:39 PM Jason Smyth <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Based on what I read in this recent thread > <https://groups.google.com/g/go-cd/c/GeH97RQAcQg>, it seems GoCD only > supports Java v >= (latest-2), regardless of Long-Term Support status of > any releases. > > This would seem to indicate that even though Java 11 is the most recent > LTS version and the next LTS version will not be until Java 17, GoCD has > already dropped support for Java 11 because Java 14 (not LTS) and 15 (not > LTS) have already been released, so (latest-2) is now 13. > > This will effectively force all GoCD users to either go long periods of > time without updating GoCD (i.e. do not run any versions of GoCD that > support neither v11 nor v17) or switch to non-LTS versions of Java. Since > non-LTS versions of Java are only supported for 6 months until the next > version is released, this then forces all GoCD users to major Java version > updates every 6 months if they want to run only supported versions. > > Am I missing something here? Why does GoCD not support the latest LTS > version of Java? Why support Java 13 (support ended more than a year ago in > March 2020) but not 11 (supported until at least 2024)? Is it just too much > work to test such an "old" version? > > Sorry if this is not the right place to raise this but it didn't seem > appropriate to raise a GitHub Issue at this point. I would love to hear > other people's thoughts on this. > > Regards, > Jason Smyth > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "go-cd" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/go-cd/f64f8a9e-587a-498b-9c90-3af4ae23dc46n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/go-cd/f64f8a9e-587a-498b-9c90-3af4ae23dc46n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "go-cd" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/go-cd/CAD9m7CyS62bp0%2BtKKEL_mJrMy07kgM4LMics%3Df0zmV9DCTMUCQ%40mail.gmail.com.
