[External] : Re: Proposal: Bump the minimum version of macOS for which we target JavaFX

[Scott Palmer]

I think Option 1 makes the most sense. Specially since JDK 21 is LTS. Do we want to be stuck with OS 10.x through the entire LTS period?

Scott

> On May 11, 2023, at 3:23 PM, Kevin Rushforth <kevin.rushforth at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the additional info. I had meant to look it up and add it prior to sending it out, but hit "send" too soon.
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> My preference would be Option 1: change the minimum to macOS 11.0 in JavaFX 21.
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> If there are some significant concerns over doing that, we could go with Option 2 as a fallback: change the minimum to 10.14 in 21 and to 11.0 in 22.
> 
> -- Kevin
> 
> 
> On 5/11/2023 12:00 PM, Martin Fox wrote:
>>> My preference is to change the minimum version for Mac / x64 to be macOS 11.0, matching both the currently oldest version of macOS supported by Apple, and also unifying the minimum for the two chip architectures.
>> So no one else has to look this up:
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>> The last security update for macOS 10.12 was in September of 2019. It was released in 2016.
>> The last security update for macOS 10.14 was in July of 2021. It was released in 2018.
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>> macOS 11.0 was released in November of 2020. Support is likely to end this year.
>> 
>> 11.0 could be installed on MacBooks from 2013 and desktops from 2014 (with some exceptions). If there’s a Mac out there that just can’t upgrade to 11.0 that machine is getting a little long in the tooth. FWIW I’m using an iMac from late 2017 and running the latest OS just fine.
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>> I think ditching 10.x is the right move.
>> 
>> Martin