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<p>Catching up on email, as hinted at in a comment on the JBS issue
for JEP 182, <br>
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<p>it is possible --release could in the future support a sparse set
of values. For example, something like:</p>
<p>8, 11, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, ...</p>
<p>Future discussion to follow at some point...<br>
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<p>-Joe<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/22/2022 10:00 AM, Liam
Miller-Cushon wrote:<br>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">brian.goetz@oracle.com</a>>
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> 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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