I can do some tests with OpenJDK 17 on Debian GNU Linux 12 (Bookworm).

Will be interested to see, how it will work together with spring boot 3.1 
(which requires a minimum of java 17), I'll be able to remove some workarounds 
in gwtp-spring-integration-client (subpackage of gwt-bean-validators).

Am Mittwoch, 15. November 2023, 03:37:38 CET schrieb Colin Alworth:
> It has taken longer than we had hoped, but I think we're just about ready -
> GWT itself can build on Java 17 (and can run on Java 23), JRE emulation is
> nearly caught up to where we wanted with Java 11, and jakarta.servlet
> support is hopefully finished and partially tested in non-trivial apps.
> 
> Here's my view of what might land before we cut a release:
> 
>    - The jakarta.servlet patch is now at
>    https://github.com/gwtproject/gwt/pull/9845, and is effectively ready to
>    land. To my knowledge, no jakarta project has tested the
>    requestfactory-*.jars yet.
>    - As above, we need confirmation that
>    https://github.com/gwtproject/gwt/pull/9785 solves the problem it was
>    created for.
>    - As above https://github.com/gwtproject/gwt/pull/9799 (fixing some
>    ternary expressions and other type unions) should get at least one more
>    review, approval. This will be applicable for Java 17 language support.
>    - Two more JRE emulation patches:
>    https://github.com/gwtproject/gwt/pull/9860 needs a review, and
>    https://github.com/gwtproject/gwt/pull/9862 needs follow-up and another
>    review.
> 
> If this is the last release that can run the compiler and dev mode on Java
> 8, we will want to update Jetty in the next release as well. That might
> suggest one more change, deprecating the use of "-server" in DevMode.
> Please see https://github.com/gwtproject/gwt/issues/9863 for more details.
> In the coming days I'll put together a patch for this.
> 
> After we've merged or deferred these PRs, the next step will be asking for
> testing volunteers and cutting an RC release. I'm hoping we can begin that
> process within two weeks - if you're interested in helping us test this
> release, please reply to this message or directly with the OS/JVM/Browsers
> you have at your disposal, and I'll make sure you are included. As usual,
> the testing process will probably take a week or so to get the desired
> coverage, and then we'll formally release GWT 2.11.0.
> 
> On Tuesday, May 23, 2023 at 3:11:51 PM UTC-5 Rocco De Angelis wrote:
> > Hi Colin,
> > 
> > if you need some help, I'm feeling to help.
> > Specially the jakarta stuff is important for us.
> > Do you find the time to have a look to the open PR?
> > 
> > BR
> > Rocco
> > 
> > Colin Alworth schrieb am Mittwoch, 17. Mai 2023 um 16:44:58 UTC+2:
> >> There have been a few suggestions of making a release in the near future,
> >> and it seemed like it might be a good idea to summarize pending
> >> development, ask for help to land these, and see if anything else needs
> >> to
> >> be addressed before shipping.
> >> 
> >>    - There is a pending branch (not yet a PR for GWT itself) working on
> >>    adding a new gwt-servlet-jakarta.jar and
> >>    requestfactory-server-jakarta.jar
> >>    as part of https://github.com/gwtproject/gwt/issues/9727. There is no
> >>    plan at this time to update the DevMode server to Jakarta, though that
> >>    will
> >>    eventually be inevitable if we move to a newer version of Jetty. Work
> >>    on
> >>    this can be found at https://github.com/niloc132/gwt/pull/3.
> >>    - There is a pending fix for eliminating a false positive from using
> >>    some internals of protobuf to deobfuscate client side exceptions
> >>    https://github.com/gwtproject/gwt/pull/9785. This is probably safe to
> >>    land without more testing, but none of the reporters of this bug have
> >>    verified the fix.
> >>    - There's a pending fix for a bug in type unions, which can be caused
> >>    by some ternary expressions and var type declarations
> >>    https://github.com/gwtproject/gwt/pull/9799. A review found a few
> >>    oversights in testing, and I'd appreciate another look.
> >>    - There's a pending fix for a bug where debugging in firefox when
> >>    assertions are enabled (for example in SDM). It turns out the bug can
> >>    happen in other cases too in more subtle ways. A draft fix it at
> >>    https://github.com/gwtproject/gwt/pull/9800.
> >>    - GWT itself can now be built on Java 11, but not yet 17. There are a
> >>    few changes pending that will permit this. Additionally, this will
> >>    enable
> >>    adding more Java 9-11 JRE emulation, see the list at
> >>    https://github.com/gwtproject/gwt/issues/9547.
> >> 
> >> Finally, we have an open question about future Java 8 support. Beyond
> >> this release, we likely will no longer support running the compiler in
> >> Java
> >> 8, which will enable adding support for Java 12-17 language features. We
> >> can likely still build jars that will run on a Java 8 server, but just
> >> can't compile newer JS. To that end, this 2.11 release branch may be
> >> longer-lived than usual, depending on feedback and support to continue
> >> bugfix releases after 2.12 eventually ships.
> >> 
> >> Are there other changes that 2.11 should included, or other
> >> considerations for this release cycle?



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