Re: [DISCUSS] Deprecate Java 8 support

Oh my bad, it must be Statefun then. I remember I needed to play around with that for _some_ build. On Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 7:48 PM Chesnay Schepler wrote: > Flink can be built with Java 11 since 1.10. If I recall correctly we > solved the tools.jar issue, which Hadoop depends on, by excluding th

Re: [DISCUSS] Deprecate Java 8 support

Flink can be built with Java 11 since 1.10. If I recall correctly we solved the tools.jar issue, which Hadoop depends on, by excluding that dependency. As far as we could tell it's not actually required. On 01/12/2021 19:56, Nicolás Ferrario wrote: Hi all, this would be awesome, I'm so tired of

Re: [DISCUSS] Deprecate Java 8 support

Hi all, this would be awesome, I'm so tired of seeing Java 8 everywhere (reminds me of Python 2.7). We're currently building our code against Java 11 because that's the latest version of Java available as a Flink Docker image, but it'd be great to use newer versions. I think it would also help to

Re: [DISCUSS] Deprecate Java 8 support

Hello Gavin, If you run into any issues with Java 17, please report them in FLINK-15736 . I recently did some experiments with Java 17 myself; I would think that you will run into some blockers (like ASM requiring an upgrade

Re: [DISCUSS] Deprecate Java 8 support

Thanks for sharing this info with us Chesnay. We've been using Flink for 5 years, and upgraded to 1.13.2 months ago. The java version is still 8. Currently we're testing with java 17 in our staging environment. There are no special concerns. Will update when tests complete. On Tue, Nov 30, 2021

[DISCUSS] Deprecate Java 8 support

Hello, we recently had a discussion on the dev mailing list for deprecating support for Java 8 in 1.15, with a general consensus in favor of it. I now wanted to check in with you, our users, to see what you have got to say about that. Why are we interested in deprecating Java 8 supp