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 +-
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