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
> > >>
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