Thanks for the heads up, the issue hadn't been closed so I thought it 
wasn't done.
Any idea if we'd want to update to 33.1?

On Thursday, September 6, 2018 at 5:59:21 AM UTC+2, Slava Pankov wrote:
>
> IMO even "Update CLDR to version 32.0.1 
> <https://github.com/gwtproject/gwt/commit/f81fc698d51cf26f89faca5dde7cf4d1276cce85>"
>  
> is worth for releasing GWT 2.9
>
> On Wednesday, September 5, 2018 at 2:57:34 AM UTC-7, Thomas Broyer wrote:
>>
>> Replying to everyone in one go.
>>
>> On Wednesday, September 5, 2018 at 9:12:38 AM UTC+2, Josselin B. wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Jens,
>>>
>>> Any idea for a release date of GWT 2.x ?
>>>
>>
>> No. You can follow advancement at 
>> https://github.com/gwtproject/gwt/milestone/19 (it doesn't move much 
>> though…)
>> For now, it didn't seem urgent to release a 2.9, as 2.8.2 works great for 
>> 99.9% of people.
>>  
>>
>>> Will it add better support for java interface default functions ?
>>>
>>
>> What do you mean?
>> I can't remember issues related to interface default methods (lambdas and 
>> method references, sure, but not interface default methods)
>>  
>>
>>> Le mer. 5 sept. 2018 à 09:07, Jens <[email protected]> a écrit :
>>>
>>>> GWT 2.x will not drop JSNI anytime soon, only GWT 3 will as it uses a 
>>>> different Java -> JavaScript compiler internally. And yes there is really 
>>>> no timeline for GWT 3 as most work is done by contributors in free time. 
>>>> Currently we are trying to migrate GWT 2.x SDK code so it will become GWT 
>>>> 3 
>>>> compatible with mostly no breaking changes. This process happens on Github 
>>>> and you can see a list of projects being converted here: 
>>>> ci.vertispan.com . Also some people are working on build plugins to 
>>>> provide a better experience out of the box.
>>>>
>>>> GWT 2.x SNAPSHOT already supports Java 10 syntax, however no Java 9 + 
>>>> 10 API additions have been emulated yet in GWT SDK, so you can not use new 
>>>> Optional methods and such things. Also some Java 8 APIs are still missing.
>>>>
>>>> The only syntax addition of Java 11 is using 'var' for lambda 
>>>> parameters. GWT depends on Eclipse JDT stable release in order to support 
>>>> new syntax features. If you don't use that feature then you should 
>>>> probably 
>>>> be able to run current GWT with Java 11, haven't tried it though. Never 
>>>> used OpenJDK with GWT but I can't think of a reason why it should not work.
>>>>
>>>
>> I (almost) exclusively use OpenJDK, and never had any problem.
>> Also, OpenJDK 11 and Oracle JDK 11 will (finally) be functionally the 
>> same, so if GWT works with Oracle JDK 11, it *will* work with OpenJDK 11.
>>
>> GWT 2.8.2 works with OpenJDK 10 and Oracle JDK 10 already, and while I 
>> haven't tested I see no reason it wouldn't work with JDK 11 (the big change 
>> was Jigsaw/JPMS in JDK 9).
>>
>> Fwiw, my plan (personal and at work, not for GWT proper) is staying on 
>> OpenJDK 8 for a little while (switching from Oracle JDK 8 to OpenJDK 8 if 
>> needed). It looks like there will be many OpenJDK packages with LTS support 
>> (most Linux distros, AdoptOpenJDK, Zulu) so I may switch to OpenJDK 11 at 
>> some point, but I bet it won't be before a year… (first and foremost, our 
>> customers clearly aren't ready; some are only just switching off of Java 7 
>> …up to Java 8)
>>
>

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