Please stop incrementing the classfile version number when there are no format changes (original) (raw)

Dalibor Topic dalibor.topic at oracle.com
Fri Oct 11 14:57:32 UTC 2019


On 11.10.2019 16:15, Cédric Champeau wrote:

FWIW, Gradle 6 is planned to be released this month, with an RC next week.

Thanks, Cedric, that's great news!

On a side note, some people might think that once a JDK release comes out, only then everyone in the broader ecosystem can start to scramble to be able to support it. That's not correct.

To put things into perspective about the ability of the ecosystem to adapt to new classfile versions:

(For example, Groovy 2.5.7 with ASM 7.1. was released two months later, on May 12th. [1])

cheers, dalibor topic

[0] https://asm.ow2.io/versions.html [1] https://blogs.apache.org/groovy/entry/groovy-2-5-7-released [2] https://jdk.java.net/14/ [3] https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/quality/Quality+Outreach

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