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
Newsgroups gmane.comp.jakarta.turbine.maven.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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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