Re: Let's move Surefire project to JAVA 9. Surefire and Failsafe stop working on latest versions of Windows due to missing wmic.

Greg Chabala <[email protected]> Fri, 6 Feb 2026 21:06:19 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.comp.jakarta.turbine.maven.user
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I don't relish having to say this, but JDK8 is still a supported platform
by Oracle and others, and Surefire/Failsafe are very core plugins to Maven
builds.

Breaking JDK8 compatibility for future versions of the plugin 'because
windows' seems premature.