JDK8 seems like the safe devil we know, but in the interest of trying to gather a bit of data, I just posted a twitter poll.
https://twitter.com/patrickmcfadin/status/1282791302065557504?s=21 On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 12:26 PM Elliott Sims <elli...@backblaze.com> wrote: > Personally, I'd planned to upgrade to 4.0 on JDK8 but only wait a few weeks > before starting to update to JDK11 afterwards. Everything else we run's > been updated to JDK11, so the Cassandra clusters are the odd one out at > this point. > > On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 12:19 PM Jordan West <jw...@apache.org> wrote: > > > 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 > > > > > >
