Re: Should we upgrade the Java default version? Attached: About the release timeline

Hi Georg,

> Am 21.04.2022 um 10:40 schrieb Georg Kallidis <[email protected]>:
> 
> I would suggest to upgrade to Java 11 or to Java 14 or even to Java 17 
> with any upcoming releases, which might be then versioned like Core 5.2 or 
> 6.0.
> 
> With Java 17 we have Record types and Sealed classes and enhanced pattern 
> matching in switch statements...

+1

> Currently I would suggest to create a Java11/14/17 branch and do the work 
> there merging it before the next release.
> 

Fine. There are probably not many active Turbine users out there though, so the development could as well happen in master.

> With this upgrade I would expect the next release mainly a refactoring 
> (Java upgrade) release and the time target about the end of the year or at 
> the beginning of the next year. Fulcrum components should be aligned of 
> course and the releases would follow this time line:

On the feature side, I have been thinking about properly supporting HttpServlet.getLastModified(HttpServletRequest req) for quite a while.
That would allow transparent caching of Turbine modules or whole pages. I just don’t know when I will get to it.

Bye, Thomas