[KAFKA-12894] KIP-750: Drop support for Java 8 in Kafka 4.0 (deprecate in 3.0)

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.0.0
• Labels: kip
• Assignee: Chia-Ping Tsai
• Reporter: Ismael Juma
• Created: 04/Jun/21 14:00
• Updated: 09/Nov/24 05:58
• Resolved: 09/Nov/24 05:58

Description

We propose deprecating Java 8 support in Apache Kafka 3.0 and dropping support in Apache Kafka 4.0.

KIP: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=181308223

Issue Links

• blocks: KAFKA-15549 Bump swagger dependency version

Sub-Tasks

• KIP-750: Deprecate support for Java 8 in Kafka 3.0: Resolved
• E2E tests need to drop Kafka versions prior to 1.0.0: Resolved
• upgrade base image from jdk8 to jdk11: Resolved
• upgrade spotless version after we drop JDK8: Resolved
• Clean up build.gradle to adopt the minimum Java version as 11.: Resolved
• Update Readme and documentation: Resolved
• cleanup code base for JDK 11: Resolved
• cleanup the mockit version: Resolved
• Remove all EnabledForJreRange: Resolved
• test_performance_services.py should use DEV version to run kafka service: Resolved
• Fix jvm error caused by UseParNewGC when running old kafka client in e2e: Resolved