[Netrexx-develop] NetRexx master branch is now 4.X

[René J. <rvj...@xs...>]

For the developers and interested parties: 3.11 has been branched for release. Master branch is NetRexx 4.X, containing 4.01 beta. From this point on, you should be able to develop, build and run with JDK’s =>9. I am running, for example, with OpenJDK 17 ea, and test with 11,13,15 (Amazon Cornetto). The good news is that 4.01 still works with JDK 8, so there is no real need to switch.

For committers nothing changes, except the version number. Please report any errors or suspected errors so they can be fixed. There have been a large number of changes and although a number of problems was found while testing (and fixed by Marc) it cannot be ruled out that there is more. But all in all I have great confidence in 4.01 beta and I would run it everywhere, except for very important production systems.

I would recommend a clean clone to avoid any merge problems, although I did one without problems on Linux yesterday, so you can try that first. The bootstrap compiler in 4.01 is already 4.01; the first build needs to be clean, e.g. nothing in build/classes or build/lib.

best regards,

René.