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
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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