[wildfly-dev] Re: WF 34 as the final release with SE 11 support?

Hi Brian, On Mon, Sep 30, 2024 at 5:08 PM Brian Stansberry < brian.stansberry(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > Is anyone aware of significant components we integrate into standard > WildFly that have dropped SE 11 support? > > This includes components used in one of the feature packs that we support > (i.e. via Glow suggestion) for integration into standard WF. > > I'm not asking about WildFly Preview, where we know EE 11 doesn't support > SE 11 so various APIs or impls may have dropped it in their EE 11 variants. > > I believe some or all of Smallrye was planning on dropping SE 11 after > their releases to support MP 7 were done. > > I've heard a rumor that Keycloak dropped SE 11 support. > I just tried updating KeyCloak in Elytron from 25.0.2 to 25.0.6 (and also in WF, https://github.com/wildfly/wildfly/pull/18249). It will no longer compile with JDK 11 and requires 17 at a minimum: https://github.com/wildfly-security/wildfly-elytron/pull/2207/checks (The WF job appears to pass because it is built with JDK 17, then tested with 11.)

https://www.keycloak.org/getting-started/getting-started-zip Ken > > On Tue, Sep 17, 2024 at 11:49 AM Brian Stansberry < > brian.stansberry(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > >> WDYT? >> >> We've been considering doing this for a long time, and I think it's only >> a matter of time before important libraries needed for standard WF are only >> compiled to SE 17. >> >> I think WF 35 would be the absolute end of the line for SE 11 support in >> std WF; after that Jakarta EE and probably our MP impls from smallrye will >> force a move. >> >> But I suspect something could easily happen during the WF 35 dev cycle >> that forces a move, and I think we'd be better off announcing a plan to >> move on around the team of WF 34 Beta, and then announcing WF 34 is the end >> for SE 11 when we release the Final. >> >> Best regards, >> >> -- >> Brian Stansberry >> Principal Architect, Red Hat JBoss EAP >> WildFly Project Lead >> He/Him/His >> > > > -- > Brian Stansberry > Principal Architect, Red Hat JBoss EAP > WildFly Project Lead > He/Him/His > _______________________________________________ > wildfly-dev mailing list -- wildfly-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > To unsubscribe send an email to wildfly-dev-leave(a)lists.jboss.org > Privacy Statement: https://www.redhat.com/en/about/privacy-policy > List Archives: > https://lists.jboss.org/archives/list/wildfly-dev@lists.jboss.org/message... >