Unless there is substantial pushback with really good reasoning behind it, I intend to update the LDAP SDK to drop support for Java 7 after the next release, which should be version 6.0.11 and will likely be released sometime in December. The next release after that should be version 7.0.0 (which I suppose is an unfortunate coincidence), and it will support Java versions 8 and higher.
Java 7 reached its end of support life (EOSL) last year, and it’s getting harder to support newer Java versions while retaining support for Java 7. Java 8 is currently slated to have its EOSL at the end of 2030, and there are no plans to drop support for it in the LDAP SDK at any time in the near future.
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Unless there is substantial pushback with really good reasoning behind it, I intend to update the LDAP SDK to drop support for Java 7 after the next release, which should be version 6.0.11 and will likely be released sometime in December. The next release after that should be version 7.0.0 (which I suppose is an unfortunate coincidence), and it will support Java versions 8 and higher.
Java 7 reached its end of support life (EOSL) last year, and it’s getting harder to support newer Java versions while retaining support for Java 7. Java 8 is currently slated to have its EOSL at the end of 2030, and there are no plans to drop support for it in the LDAP SDK at any time in the near future.