Java 17 preview language level use

[Tagir Valeev]

>If I start up the IDE, configure Java 17 and want to have preview features
enabled (i.e., turn on --enable-preview), are you saying I can't do that?

Yes. Similarly, if you install Java 21 and use `--enable-preview
--release=17`. You can't do that. You have to install an older version of
Java, or (in our case) an older version of IDE.

With best regards,
Tagir Valeev

On Fri, Dec 1, 2023 at 4:24 PM Archie Cobbs <archie.cobbs at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 1, 2023 at 3:58 AM Tagir Valeev <amaembo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> And we get quite angry feedback from the users because we stopped
>> supporting Java 17-preview in our IDEs.
>>
>
> Apologies if this is a dumb question... but what exactly do you mean by
> "we stopped supporting Java 17-preview in our IDEs" ?
>
> If I start up the IDE, configure Java 17 and want to have preview features
> enabled (i.e., turn on --enable-preview), are you saying I can't do that?
>
> -Archie
>
> --
> Archie L. Cobbs
>
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