No concerns here. Though, with advent of containerized CI, wouldn't it be as simple as running the same test suite in some flavor of JDK 6 image to test for earlier JDKs regressions?
On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 5:21 PM Tatu Saloranta <[email protected]> wrote: > The minimum JDK one can use Jackson on has been JDK 8 for most > components since version 2.13 (and minimum JDK to build anything has > been JDK 8 as well). > Exceptions include: > > * jackson-core, jackson-annotations only require (in theory) JDK 6 > > But even with that goal, there have been accidental uses of things > like `java.lang.Objects` methods that are not present on JDK 6. We do > not have a good regression test suite to guard against that. > > It has been proposed that we should now raise the baseline to Java 8 > for ALL components, including streaming (jackson-core) and annotations > (jackson-annotations). > This would occur for Jackson 2.14: we would keep the last > "pre-all-Java8" branch -- 2.13 -- open for longer for those users that > cannot (yet) upgrade to Java 8 platform. > > When this was proposed on "jackson-dev" mailing list, no concerns were > voiced, so perhaps this is not controversial proposal. > > But I wanted to send this to a bit larger audience to let everyone > voice their concerns. > > So: anyone concerned with the move to require Java 8 (JDK 8) for all > Jackson 2.14 components (and forward)? Note that we will still need to > be careful with some usage, to allow Jackson use on platforms like > Android. > > -+ Tatu +- > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "jackson-user" 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/jackson-user/CAGrxA24GZpuznJpfD9SqMsshUJTn%2B%3D2y0RaekFeGBkaM%2B6BSqg%40mail.gmail.com > . > -- // Mantas -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jackson-user" 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/jackson-user/CAE9hW8Rj7EWT2fzsjdARU9RV9d0AvPDSLAz_c%2Bc1%2BdHSU4S%3DDw%40mail.gmail.com.
