JavaC "-release" option no longer working?

[Jochen Theodorou]

On 19.09.2016 18:22, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
> Rémi,
>
> A more accurate statement would be that most *new* options of javac use
> the GNU style.
>
> With the exception of -classpath and -sourcepath, we have not changed
> any options that existed prior to JDK 9, and for those two options, we
> added new-style aliases, without removing the old forms.

what abut -verison?

bye Jochen