<div dir="ltr">> JDK 7 was released in July 2011, over one decade ago. Per the general sentiment, but not exact wording, of JEP 182<br><div><br></div><div>Would you be willing to provide any hints about what the future update to JEP 182 might look like? Is the sentiment behind JEP 182 that language levels will continue to be turned down roughly ten years after they were originally released, and so support for targeting Java 8 might be removed around 2024?</div><div><br></div><div>By way of an experience report on JDK-8173605, I'm seeing roughly ten times more usage of '-source 7 -target 7' than there was of '-source 6 -target 6' when it was turned down. So far most of those uses don't seem to be necessary anymore, but there are a few where it's not clear. So it's been a more invasive breaking change than JDK-8028563 was.<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 7:20 AM Brian Goetz <<a href="mailto:brian.goetz@oracle.com" target="_blank">brian.goetz@oracle.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
> The only problem i see is that the compiler plugin of Maven still use 1.7 as default.<br>
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This is kind of bizarre, though. Java 7 went to "end of public updates" <br>
in 2015. You would think that would be the trigger for Maven to update <br>
their defaults? Or maybe, as the release model is evolved, they could <br>
pick a policy of "default to the newest/oldest LTS"?<br>
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