Re: Increase minimum Java version in 2.3.x?

2020-01-12 Thread Daniel Dekany
I wouldn't increase the 1st (major) version number because of higher required dependency versions. That just happens too often with libraries, I think. In fact it already happened with 2.3.x for at least 2 times in the past. As the API of FreeMarker itself didn't change in an incompatible way, I di

Re: Increase minimum Java version in 2.3.x?

2020-01-12 Thread David E Jones
FWIW the current FreeMarker release runs fine on Java 11 from the testing I've done (with Moqui). Java 9 is less important in general that Java 11 as Java 9 is not a long term release as Java 8 and Java 11 are (and Java 9, 10 are already EOL). Java versioning is really confusing these days and whil

Re: Increase minimum Java version in 2.3.x?

2020-01-12 Thread Daniel Dekany
* It's just my routine to not increase the minimum Java version, if it doesn't make work significantly simpler on our side, because that can make upgrading a problem in "legacy" systems. Using Java 8 doesn't help much in 2.3.30, but it will once we start support Java 8 time API-s. But, supporting a

Re: Increase minimum Java version in 2.3.x?

2020-01-12 Thread Siegfried Goeschl
Good morning, so the upcoming 2.3.30 release is a sort of transition to the 2.3.31 release using JDK 8 finally? * What are the reasons not to switch to JDK 8 for 2.3.30? Please note that I'm sure you have good reason to so but I want them to make more explicit :-) * I guess we should also migra