According to the Semantic versioning folks, dropping support for a Java version is a breaking change requiring a major version update.
On Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 2:40 PM Dominik Stadler <dominik.stad...@gmx.at> wrote: > Hi PJ, > > I now thought a bit about 3.2 vs. 4.0 and came to the conclusion below, > this is naturally only my personal opinion, not sure how we best decide, > maybe call a quick vote for the release-version? > > Calling it 4.0 would probably discourage people from upgrading, Java 6 and > 7 is really really outdated by now, so discontinuing support for these is > not an actual big change, but rather like eliminating some technical debt, > so I personally would be fine with a release 3.2.0. > > Dominik. > > On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 5:40 PM PJ Fanning <fannin...@yahoo.com.invalid> > wrote: > > > I'm going to close the vote as inconclusive. No +1s or -1s. > > Regarding, the prospective version number for next release, I would still > > favour 3.2.0 due to lack of API change - but it's not a strong opinion > > either way. >
