-1. I think staying on JDK8 is for the best. Adoption of JDK11 has been quite poor, due to a lack of compelling new language features that would make upgrading worthwhile, and even ALPN and TLSv1.3 (the most relevant JDK11 features for our purposes) have now been backported to JDK8. I'd rather skip JDK11 and target JDK17 once it's ready. JDK17 will ship a number of major new language features (records, text blocks, switch expressions, instanceof pattern matching, sealed classes), as well as some JDK features that might be relevant to us, such as support for Unix domain sockets.
I'd also point out that log4j2 is apparently planning on upgrading to JDK11 in their next release. I'd prefer to wait and see how their experience goes before we do anything. On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 5:29 AM Oleg Kalnichevski <ol...@apache.org> wrote: > Folks > > How do you feel about upgrading all the way to Java 11 for the 5.2 > release series and not Java 8? > > I am quite certain Java 17 will be out by the time we are done with HC > 5.2 development and we again will be one LTS version behind. Besides we > can keep the 5.1 release series going as long as it takes as the same > time. > > Cheers > > Oleg > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@hc.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@hc.apache.org > >
