On Fri, 9 Dec 2022 19:44:34 GMT, Daniel D. Daugherty <dcu...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> Of course, it is possible that JVMTI_VERSION_9 is compatible with > JVMTI_VERSION_1_N and JVMTI_VERSION_11 is compatible with both > JVMTI_VERSION_9 and JVMTI_VERSION_1_N. We might have simply bumped the major > number because we were in that train of thought back in the JDK9 days... > I have not checked the compatibility matrices for the various JVM/TI releases > in a very, very long time. As I remember, it was decided in the JDK 9 time frame that we want the JVMTI version to match the JDK version (starting from JDK 9). So that, we always bump JVMTI version in new releases. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/11602