If this issue has been raised in the past, my apologies. I did a search for "Verona" in the mail archives here and didn't see any hit besides Oracle's own notification [1]. That was the only hit.
In JDK 9, the version string is changing from 1.0.X to bigger numbers like 9.0.0 [2]. Code that has assumed the 1.x pattern for parsing the version string will likely fail or behave strangely. Apache Commons will be one of these libraries [3]. I already notified the Log4J community that Log4J 1.x is also affected. So this is just an FYI for any Commons project that is relying on the Version string. The slew of Apache Commons sub-projects are likely baked into many applications. So what does Verona's change mean in practice to all you here? Any concerns on Verona? This is the time to speak up to Oracle with any feedback you may have. [1] http://markmail.org/message/t3l7d73tmqslkele [2] http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/223 [3] https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-lang/javadocs/api-3.4/src-html/org/apache/commons/lang3/SystemUtils.html#line.952 Cheers, Paul
