Moving the trunk and the next release to JDK 11 is fine with me.
On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 11:36 PM Davide Grandi <davide.gra...@email.it> wrote: > > Hello, > > - Java 11 is 1 year 6 months old > - next LTS release, Java 17, will be released in another 1 year > 6 months since now > - JDBC 4.3 is stable since Java 9, being 4.4 in early access stage > https://www.google.com/search?q=jdbc+4.4 > > So, for me, it seems a good moment to switch o the next LTS. > > Bye, > > Davide > > On 05/05/2020 00:36, Rick Hillegas wrote: > > Discussion on https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-7076 suggests > > that we could move the base JVM level of the next (10.16) release > > forward from Java 9 to Java 11. The practical consequence of this is > > that the 10.16 family would NOT run on Java 9 and Java 10 JVMs. I do not > > think that this would be a serious problem. I suspect that most users > > who migrate off Java 8 will skip the intervening non-LTS versions and > > upgrade to Java 11 directly. Moving the base JVM level forward would let > > us take advantage of more improvements to the core libraries. Following > > our past practice, this change would require a vote by the community. > > > > What are your thoughts? > > > > Thanks, > > > > -Rick
