Thanks for bringing this up Jon! My current thinking is we should officially support both 8 and 11. That increases the surface area we need to test but I think its hard to predict what different users will run given the current transition in the Java landscape.
Jordan On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 11:42 AM Jon Haddad <j...@jonhaddad.com> wrote: > Support for Java 11 was added a long time ago, and it's been about 2 years > since it was released (Sept 2018). Had we released Cassandra 4 close to > that date, I'd be fine with keeping the status as experimental, but at this > point I'm wondering if releasing a new major version of C* that's primarily > targeting Java 8 as the only "official" supported version is a good idea. > > To those of you that are planning on rolling out C* 4.0, are you planning > on using Java 8 still, or moving to 11? Speaking for myself, I can say I > don't think I'd want to use 8 anymore. If most folks are testing with 11 > at this point, I think we should consider making 11 the recommended version > and really only encouraging Java 8 for legacy purposes - teams who have a > restriction that prevents them from upgrading. > > To those of you planning on moving to 4.0 soon after it's release, are you > planning on deploying to JDK 11 or 8? > > [1] https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/java-se-support-roadmap.html >
