I believe in taking a small step first. If we have smooth sailing with JDK11, then next step JDK17.
thanks Will. komal On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 4:58 PM William Morgan <[email protected]> wrote: > > If there were a move for Java versions, why not move to 17 (the latest LTS)? > I don’t believe there were many breaking changes between those 11 and 17 and > nothing even as close as the pain of jumping from 8 to 11. The only limiting > factor I’m guessing would be the zookeeper libs, though a cursory search > doesn’t show any issues with Java 17. Overall I would be for getting off Java > 8 and would be even happier if we ended up on 17, though 11 would be fine. > > Thanks, > > Will > > > > On Oct 21, 2022, at 5:52 PM, Komal Desai <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > >> > >> Hello Helix user and developer community, > >> > >> Helix has been using JDK-8 as default for the last few years. > >> Newer JDK versions have improved performance and improved functionalities. > >> > >> I wanted to propose that we move Apache Helix project from using JDK-8 to > >> JDK-11 to leverage better performance. > >> > >> Please let me know how you would like me to proceed. > >> > >> thanks, > >> Komal Desai (desaikomal) > >>
