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Julian Reschke commented on OAK-11952:
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There was some discussion about why not to move to Java 21.
The reason for this is that this Oak branch is used in a product that currently
requires support of Java 17. So the alternative would have been to create
another maintenance branch.
So Java 21 remains a goal for the hopefully not-so-distant future.
> Bump up minimal Java version to 17
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> 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
> Priority: Major
> Fix For: 2.0.0
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> Java 11 has been EOLed for quite some time (see
> [https://endoflife.date/oracle-jdk]).
> More and more third party libraries require Java 17, which stops us from
> upgrading to the latest and greatest version. In case of critical security
> issues, that might become a major problem.
> Proposal:
> - after the next release, switch project version to 2.0.0
> - set minimal version to Java 17
> - branch 1.90 in case we need a fix in the Java 11 code base
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