[jdk11u-dev] RFR: 8260518: Change default -mmacosx-version-min to 10.12

Mon Feb 14 08:03:15 UTC 2022

On Mon, 14 Feb 2022 07:50:47 GMT, Bernhard Urban-Forster <burban at openjdk.org> wrote:

> > Note to Maintainers: 10.9 through 10.14 are eol, and the oldest machines supported by 10.12 are from 2009/2010, see https://support.apple.com/kb/SP742?locale=en_USh. Imo it's safe to say that it's very unlikely there are machines running OSX versions earlier than 10.12.
> 
> While I agree, why take the risk? This can be easily set conditionally for aarch64.

This was reasoned in the bug description:
>Having a large gap between the target versions becomes problematic as we hit a lot of deprecation warnings in shared code. To be able to fix these deprecation warnings, we need a smaller version gap.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk11u-dev/pull/810