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

Gary Gregory <[email protected]> Fri, 6 Feb 2026 22:25:41 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.jakarta.turbine.maven.user
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On Fri, Feb 6, 2026 at 10:07 PM Greg Chabala <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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.

The Java req for building is different from the targeted version. You
can build on Java 25 for Java 8 for example.

Gary