XWiki 14.0 will require Java 11 as a minimal version for running XWiki

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Hi devs,

I’m sending this post as a reminder of our strategy at https://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/SupportStrategy/JavaSupportStrategy/

This means:

  • That we no longer need to support java 8 for XWiki 14.x. We can remove it from test configs + update the minimal requirement page
  • That building XWiki will require Java 11 (at least for executing the functional tests). We’ll also need to update the Building page on xwiki.org

I’ll be working on these 2 items in the coming days. Right now I’m trying to upgrade our standalone packaging on master (i.e. XWiki 14.x) to use Jetty 10 (which requires Java 11 to run).

Thanks

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BTW ATM we can only run the functional tests with Java 11 while we need to continue building with Java 8 until we fix the last remaining issues:

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I don’t think this one is accurate, since the problem was with XWiki 8.4.4 source.

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According to IsolatedTestClassLoader javadoc I don’t think it actually needs a URLClassloader. Seems to me, it was just a reflex to assume that it’s always one and that it should have the documented behavior by setting the context classloader as parent instead of using its URLs.