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# community-supports
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Adam
02/15/2024, 11:08 PMhttps://endoflife.date/oracle-jdk
Extended Support ends in 6 years and 10 months (31 Dec 2030)
Not exactly what you're asking, but it might help
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Caleb Cushing
02/15/2024, 11:09 PMI hope future versions of gradle don't need to support it for that long
Caleb Cushing
02/15/2024, 11:09 PM😕
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adam
02/16/2024, 1:06 AMWe haven't decided yet. We'll likely drop support for executing Gradle on Java 8 in the next major release or two.
We'll keep support for building and testing Java projects for Java 8 for quite a bit longer, via the toolchain support.
There are no concrete plans just yet, just some discussions.
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Caleb Cushing
02/16/2024, 1:07 AMyeah, I'm just sitting here thinking about this plugin, having written it in java, I imagine to be the most compatible it needs to be java 8... (spotless is causing something weird there though...)
Caleb Cushing
02/16/2024, 1:09 AMI'm guessing that if I have a plugin that requires java 11, then people running gradle have to be running 11
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adam
02/16/2024, 1:11 AMThat's right. I don't think it's necessarily a problem if a plugin author does not want to support Java versions all the way back to Java 8. I think it's up to the plugin author to make that choice.
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Caleb Cushing
02/16/2024, 1:12 AMyeah, it'll probably depend on what I can figure out (with spotless), but if you want other people to use your plugin... then best shoot for compatibility
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Caleb Cushing
02/16/2024, 1:14 AMso if gradle were planning to switch in version 9, I'd be like "meh, this probably won't be used much by then anyways, so who cares"
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adam
02/16/2024, 1:15 AMMakes sense. We'll try to get a decision made soonish.
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Caleb Cushing
02/16/2024, 1:15 AMno worries