[MCOMPILER-505] Update default source/target from 1.7 to 1.8

• Type: Task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.10.1
• Fix Version/s: 3.11.0
• Assignee: Sylwester Lachiewicz
• Reporter: Jorge Solórzano
• Created: 08/Sep/22 16:12
• Updated: 08/Sep/22 23:42
• Resolved: 08/Sep/22 19:27

Description

JDK 20 will drop support for compiling to Java 7:

https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/jdk-dev/2022-August/006877.html

JDK 7 shipped over a decade ago; and it's not longer supported without a commercial subscription, so it doesn't make sense to keep a conservative default (and even Java 8 is conservative enough).

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #149