Re: Let's move Surefire project to JAVA 9. Surefire and Failsafe stop working on latest versions of Windows due to missing wmic.
Thorsten Heit <[email protected]> Wed, 11 Feb 2026 16:26:27 +0100
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Hi, > One more time: please don't confuse the Oracle Java support map with > Java support. They are not the same thing. Java has had multiple > vendors for almost 20 years. What Oracle will support is only what > Oracle will support. I wouldn't even consider Oracle the primary > vendor of Java any more. IBM, Azul, Amazon, Microsoft, Red Hat, the > OpenJDK Project, and others have significantly different schedules. > > A quick search does show Azul and Amazon ending support for Java 8 on > January 1 2031 so 2030 is probably about the right time for us to > consider dropping Java 8 support. I wouldn't do it before then. There > are practical advantages to sticking on Java 8 that still outweigh the > advantages of upgrading for some shops. Correct, but personally I can't imagine having a good reason to still restrict your codebase on Java 8 at the end of 2030, more than 16 years after that version was released, when * there's Java 35 available (if I counted correctly and they're still using a 6-month release cycle) * lots of LTS versions got released in the meantime until then (actually we got four: 11, 17, 21 and 25). Thorsten
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