Is it worth discussing the minimum and recommended versions for Java in AOO5?
Is holding to Java 8 foolish? > On Oct 26, 2026, at 9:56 AM, Jim Jagielski <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've created a branch with the Lucene8 work I did, if we want to start with > that: > > https://github.com/apache/openoffice/tree/lucene-8-upgrade > > >> On Oct 26, 2026, at 12:44 PM, Pedro F. Giffuni via dev >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hmm .. the move to Win64, and the fact that very old JVM will not be >> available anymore will inevitably mean that extensions will have to be >> regenerated, so my guess is the sooner the change, the better. >> But the choice are not nice: Lucene8 is also deprecated, current release is >> 10.x. >> FWIW, libreoffice moved to a hacked up C version of older Lucene. >> Pedro. >> On Monday, October 26, 2026 at 09:36:06 AM GMT-5, Jim Jagielski >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I remember looking into this... the issue was, iirc, something about Lucene8 >> not being able to read Lucene2 indexes which are used when we install >> extensions. For a 4.2.x build that was an issue, but maybe no longer for a >> 5.0.x release. >> >> >> On Oct 26, 2026, at 10:26 AM, Pedro F. Giffuni via dev >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> Nothing I am planning, but we are carrying obsolete Lucene 2.9.4. >> The last Apache Lucene version that works with Java 8 is 8.11.4, which was >> released in September 2024. >> >> Pedro. >> > > -- > Jim > "This is an outrage!" > Tony Harrison > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
