> On 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.
LTS is a thing
>
> 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?
Perhaps the most notable parts of jdk11 (for cassandra) aren’t even prod ready
in jdk11 , so what’s the motivation and what does the project gain from
revisiting the experimental designation on jdk11?
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