id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc 2129,Preparations for Java 11 support,Nicklas Nordborg,Nicklas Nordborg,"Java 11 was released in september 2018 and with it comes a lot of big changes. * The Oracle JDK is no longer free to use in a production environment (only for development). However, OpenJDK has been technically improved and will be aligned to the Oracle JDK. * A new major version will be released every 6 months. Security updates will only be provided (by Oracle) for the last major version. Other vendors (eg. Red Hat) may provide support also for some of the older versions. * Java 8 is supported until 2019. Sooner or later we will have to move from Java 8 to Java 11 (or some later version). I think it would be a good idea to start this work now. At this stage: * BASE must still work with Java 8. * We should identify problems that need to be fixed. * Changes that can be made without breaking Java 8 support. For more information about migrating to Java 11: * https://blog.codefx.org/java/java-11-migration-guide/ * https://medium.com/codefx-weekly/no-free-java-lts-version-b850192745fb * https://openjdk.java.net/ * https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html ",enhancement,closed,major,BASE 3.14,core,,fixed,,