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Robbie Gemmell commented on ARTEMIS-3420:
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The JIRA was referenced in the release notes already, though I have now added a
more prominent note about it right at the top of them. I believe the Java 11+
requirement was noted in the release announcement and there are at least a
couple of threads around it on the users mailing list, which is where further
discussions/questions should be made (see https://activemq.apache.org/contact
for details if needed).
> Target Java 11+ , i.e. drop support for Java 8
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> Key: ARTEMIS-3420
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARTEMIS-3420
> Project: ActiveMQ Artemis
> Issue Type: Task
> Reporter: Robbie Gemmell
> Assignee: Robbie Gemmell
> Priority: Major
> Fix For: 2.20.0
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> Time Spent: 2.5h
> Remaining Estimate: 0h
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> Target Java 11 on the main branch. That is, drop support for building or
> running with Java 8 [/9/10] from future releases (e.g 2.20.0).
> An existing release stream (e.g. from 2.18.0 as of report, 2.19.0 soon) could
> be used for continued Java 8 support where needed and occasional release for
> important fixes for a further period of time.
> This was initially proposed by Clebert ahead of 2.17.0 and discussed on the
> mailing list ~7 months ago (Jan 2021) in the following thread:
>
> [https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/re59ba50c9d148d278e88d435f57f5cd4b4b69802138eb962b548ec48%40%3Cdev.activemq.apache.org%3E]
> I will prod the thread with note of this JIRA and a related PR I will raise
> shortly.
>
> (Related note for later reference: Java 17 RC1 is out, -RC2 is due later this
> week-, and final release is due in just under a month)
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