Hi everybody, the current Nutch development is ready for Java 17 with NUTCH-2971 fixed - thanks Isabelle!
By now Nutch does not require Java 17 at compile or run time. Java 11 is still sufficient. This is good because Hadoop still does not guarantee full support of Java 17 [1]. However, staying compatible with Java 11 becomes a burden because more and more dependencies require an upgrade to Java 17. We have already two PRs open which are great improvements (thanks to Lewis!) but would require Java 17: - index-geoip NUTCH-3064 / PR #825 [2] - JUnit 6 NUTCH-3145 / PR #883 [3] We now have the following options for the next release (1.22): 1. stay on Java 11 2. require Java 17 at compile time, but compile using "-target 11" to stay compatible with Java 11 at runtime 3. drop support for Java 11 and switch to Java 17 I'm leaning in favor of option 1 and try to release Nutch 1.22 during the next weeks. After the release go to option 3. Please share your thoughts and opinions! ~Sebastian [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-17177 [2] https://github.com/apache/nutch/pull/825 [3] https://github.com/apache/nutch/pull/883
