If building on Jenkins, it looks like Infra still supports all the way back to 1.4: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INFRA/JDK+Installation+Matrix
On Sun, 26 Jul 2020 at 16:46, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi All: > > As a guideline I think our CI builds should use the following Java versions: > > - Java 8 since it is LTS > - Java 11 since it is LTS > - Java 14 since it is the latest version > - Java 15-ea since it is upcoming, but should be allowed to fail a build > - Java 16-ea since it is upcoming, but should be allowed to fail a build > > When Java 15 is released in September: > > - Java 15 can take the place of Java 14 in the list above > - Drop Java 15-ea. > > Java 17 looks to be the next LTS version but there is no EA yet. > > For antique builds that still require Java 7 then that build can be added > of course. > > For mythical builds that require Java 6, we should really consider bumping > those up to Java 7 or 8 because newer JDKs do not accept compiling to > targets older than Java 7. That will just make the builds and tooling > simpler to deal with and will avoid telling contributors that they have to > find and install some deep freeze Java version. > > Gary -- Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
