I see no reason to support Java 11 now. Many of my clients are already on 
Java 17 or planing to move to Java 17 in the near future.  

I think, the benefit of dropping support for Java 11 is much greater than 
supporting it. So, from my point of view: let's drop it. 


Colin Alworth schrieb am Sonntag, 26. Oktober 2025 um 20:28:58 UTC+1:

> Its been about three years since the last thread on deprecations, and the 
> Java 8 deprecation ended up going by with barely a whisper.
>
> On the other hand, I'm hearing more interest in Java 21+ features than we 
> did for Java 17 at the time - but updating JDT so that we can provide those 
> will require dropping support to run on Java 11.
>
> We seem to be close to a GWT 2.13 release, so GWT 2.14 would be the 
> earliest this would take place. The expectation in turn would be that our 
> JDT version would then be updated, and possibly Jetty as well. Thoughts?
>

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