> On 2 May 2017, at 09:45, Michael Nascimento <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 11:51 AM, Brian Goetz <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> 8 can deal with multi-release JARs.
>>
>
> I missed that. Starting with what update? Is there any link I could use to
> share this info?
>
There have been no modifications to the Java 8 runtime, it will just ignore
stuff in the META-INF/versions/{N} directories.
At one point we were mulling back porting the Java 9 runtime changes to Java 8
and therefore we could go back to Java 7, but we decided not to proceed with
that, which is what i suspect you may be thinking about.
Paul.
