Sounds good. Java 23 contains mostly preview features, but brings Markdown docs.
https://javaalmanac.io/jdk/23/ On Tue, Jun 17, 2025, 18:46 Kevin Rushforth <kevin.rushfo...@oracle.com> wrote: > All, > > Even though we build JavaFX 25 binaries with JDK 23 (which is being > updated to JDK 24 this week), as the boot JDK, the latest version of > JavaFX still runs with JDK 22, although it isn't tested with older JDK > versions. > > In order for JavaFX to be able to use more recent JDK features, we > should increase the minimum version of the JDK that can run the latest > JavaFX. Additionally, there is an ongoing cost to keeping JavaFX > buildable and runnable on older versions of Java, and little reason to > continue to do so. > > I propose to bump the minimum version of the JDK needed to run JavaFX 25 > to JDK 23. I further propose to adopt a standard practice of setting the > minimum JDK for JavaFX N to JDK N-2. JavaFX N is primarily intended for > use with JDK N; we also build and test it against JDK N-1 (which is > typically what we use as the boot JDK). Anything older than that, > including the proposed minimum JDK N-2 (23 in this specific case), is > untested. > > I filed JDK-8359387 [1] to track this and prepared PR #1827 [2]. This > will *not* affect update releases of earlier versions of JavaFX (e.g., > JavaFX 24.0.NN or JavaFX 21.0.NN), which will continue to run with the > same minimum JDK that they run on today. > > Note: in keeping with the "tip and tail" model [3], developers who want > to run their application on an LTS of the JDK should also get a > corresponding LTS of JavaFX. > > Comments are welcome. > > -- Kevin > > [1] https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8359387 > [2] https://github.com/openjdk/jfx/pull/1827 > [3] https://openjdk.org/jeps/14 > >
