[LUCENE-10283] Bump minimum required Java version to 17

• Type: Task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 10.0 (main)
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Adrien Grand
• Created: 03/Dec/21 10:10
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 16:31
• Resolved: 10/Jan/22 14:42

Description

This is a follow-up of the discussion we had on https://lists.apache.org/thread/zllbhw25sjvh3d4z4jt3x34qkyvdl2d1.

There's been discussions of whether we'd actually get more benefits than downsides from moving to Java 17 but it looked to me like the idea of bumping the minimum required Java version to 17 got traction in the end.

Some benefits that Robert mentioned in this thread:

• Absolute bulk get methods on ByteBuffers.
• New PRNGs.
• JFR runtime streaming API.
• Unix sockets for live stats?
• Bumped unicode version.
• HexFormat.

More info at https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/docs/api/new-list.html.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #579