Java 8 removal: when & how

[Peter Palaga]

Hi,

Guillaume announced with Quarkus 1.4 [1] to drop Java 8 in Quarkus 1.6.

Is there an ETA when this will happen in Quarkus master?

I wonder what exactly dropping Java 8 means? - both source and target
compatibility will be increased to 11?

I am asking because we are dropping Java 8 in Camel Quarkus and I'd like
to know whether it is OK for us to increase both source and target
compatibility to 11.

[1] https://quarkus.io/blog/quarkus-1-4-final-released/#java-8-deprecated

Thanks,

-- Peter

[Emmanuel Bernard]

We had some pretty decent feedback advising against rushing dropping of Java 8. So right now, it is pending a few months to see how that evolves. I'd recommend you do not drop Java 8 support in Camel extensions otherwise our CI will always fail on Java 8.

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[Guillaume Smet]

Yes, the idea was to move both source and target to 11. And 1.6 was our tentative planning.

But, given the last months have been quite hectic, I think we will have to wait for more feedback and support Java 8 for a bit longer.

It's still something being discussed. For the time being, we need everything to work with 1.8.

On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 4:18 PM Peter Palaga <ppa...@redhat.com> wrote:

[Peter Palaga]

Thanks for the info, Guillaume and Emmanuel. You have perhaps announced
the change of the plan somewhere where I missed it, but if you have not,
please at least amend it to
https://quarkus.io/blog/quarkus-1-5-final-released/ where it can be
found by people who have read the 1.4.0 announcement. -- P

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