Manfred Baedke created OAK-11952:
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Summary: CLONE - Bump up minimal Java version to 17
Key: OAK-11952
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OAK-11952
Project: Jackrabbit Oak
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: parent
Reporter: Julian Reschke
Assignee: Julian Reschke
Fix For: 1.50.0
Active support for Java 8 ended a few months ago (see
[https://endoflife.date/java]).
Java 11 has been available for four years, and offers various improvements (in
particular, it contains extensions that may help in avoiding use of Guava (see
OAK-7182)).
(Note that even Java 11 will be out of active support in a few months - so a
subsequent update to the next LTS release - Java 17 - is not that far away).
Potential downsides:
- backports to 1.22 might become harder (1.8 will be EOLd next spring anyway).
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