are you building POI or are you building WITH POI (as a dependency)? it is unclear based on the verbiage of the ticket. if you are building WITH poi, are you overriding any of its transitive dependencies with versions/implementations built with newer java version?
if you're actually building POI, and it's failing with jdk-8, this points to a possible environmental issue. Stanton Fisque principal technologist latticeware.com portland, oregon > On Jun 26, 2025, at 11:48 AM, bugzi...@apache.org wrote: > > https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=69729 > > Bug ID: 69729 > Summary: Unable to build POI 5.4.1 with JDK 8 > Product: POI > Version: 5.4.1-FINAL > Hardware: PC > Status: NEW > Severity: critical > Priority: P2 > Component: POI Overall > Assignee: dev@poi.apache.org > Reporter: shilpa...@gmail.com > Target Milestone: --- > > I use apache-poi and related libraries in my project. Recently came across > the > vulnerabilities and fix for them are in the latest version of > Apache-poi:-5.4.1 > > TO build the source code with JDK 8 (JDK 8 is what used in my project) I > downloaded the source code from: > https://poi.apache.org/download.html#POI-5.4.1 > > However, building the source code results in the errors indicating that POI > and > sub modules doesn't support JDK -8. > Following modules in specific: poi-ooxml-lite-agent and even other modules > under poi. Infact source code uses module-path and other features not > supported > in Java -8. > > However, JDK support metrics clearly calls out that POI supports JDK-8 : > https://poi.apache.org/ > as " POI requires Java 8 or newer since version 4.0.1." > > Can you confirm if POI can be build with JDK 8 ? > > -- > You are receiving this mail because: > You are the assignee for the bug. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@poi.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@poi.apache.org >
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