The majority of the testing that I'm doing and likely the people I work with day to day tests 4.0 on Java 11, so we should gain some experience over the next few months.
On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 5:27 PM Sumanth Pasupuleti <sumanth.pasupuleti...@gmail.com> wrote: > > We at Netflix have been testing 4.0 on Java 8, and we do not plan to > use Java 11 yet for C*, since we are, and for the considerable future will > be running Java 8 only in production. > > On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 2:41 PM Patrick McFadin <pmcfa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cassandra.apache.org
