https://github.com/apache/httpcomponents-core/pull/655
On Sat, Mar 21, 2026 at 7:42 AM Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 21, 2026 at 7:34 AM Ryan Schmitt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > It looks like RAT won't get any more updates on Java 8. Should we raise > our > > build-time Java requirement to 17? An increasing amount of build tooling > is > > dropping support for Java 8, including Maven itself (Maven 4 has to run > on > > Java 17+), and Windows for ARM doesn't even *have* Java versions older > than > > 17. This isn't an externally visible change, as we would still build for > > Java 8 and test on Java 8/11 JREs; it mainly involves reworking the CI > > workflows and the POM files as needed. > > I'm +1 on bumping the build requirement to Java 17. The target > bytecode can stay on Java 8 for now. > > Gary > > > > > On Sat, Mar 21, 2026 at 7:10 AM Ryan Schmitt <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > My understanding was that RAT 1.0 would require Java 17, but RAT 0.18 > > > would run on Java 8: > > > > > > https://github.com/apache/creadur-rat/pull/601#issuecomment-3812943964 > > > > > > I'll revert the upgrade for now and figure out what's going on. > > > > > > On Sat, Mar 21, 2026 at 1:54 AM Oleg Kalnichevski <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > >> Ryan, > > >> > > >> It looks like RAT upgrade to version 0.18 broke the build on JRE older > > >> than 17. Do we really that version? > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > https://github.com/apache/httpcomponents-core/commit/7e78f980d8c562d079bf6268d7356891f165789b > > >> > > >> > https://github.com/apache/httpcomponents-core/actions/runs/23349914025/job/67925457804 > > >> > > >> Oleg > > >> > > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > >> > > >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
