FYI, planning to drop support for -source/-target/--release 7 from javac in JDK 20

Brian Goetz brian.goetz at oracle.com
Tue Aug 30 14:20:13 UTC 2022


> The only problem i see is that the compiler plugin of Maven still use 1.7 as default.

This is kind of bizarre, though.  Java 7 went to "end of public updates" 
in 2015.  You would think that would be the trigger for Maven to update 
their defaults?  Or maybe, as the release model is evolved, they could 
pick a policy of "default to the newest/oldest LTS"?




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