> On Feb 20, 2024, at 8:08 AM, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote: > > Looking at the latest version of the Jakarta EE 11 release plan, the minimum > Java version has been dropped to Java 17. > > https://jakartaee.github.io/platform/jakartaee11/JakartaEE11ReleasePlan > > On that basis I think we have no choice but to reduce the minimum Java > version for Tomcat 11 to Java 17.
Implementations are not required to support Java 17, it is simply now one of the allowed options. We can absolutely continue with java 21 (or any JDK 17 or up) if we like. The decision was made to allow implementations to certify with 17 support if they wanted as none of the specs took advantage of Java 21 features, so there is no real basis to reject their certification requests. It is still hoped there will be implementations that take advantage of Java 21 features and brag publicly about them. -David --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
