[MJAVADOC-787] Automatic detection of release option for JDK < 9

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.6.3
• Fix Version/s: 3.11.0, 3.11.1
• Component/s: javadoc
• Assignee: Michael Osipov
• Reporter: Jorge Solórzano
• Created: 21/Mar/24 09:55
• Updated: 30/Oct/24 14:31
• Resolved: 29/Oct/24 08:40

Description

The maven-compiler-plugin 3.13.0 now has detection of the release option:

• https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MCOMPILER-582

But this should be expanded to maven-javadoc-plugin as well; this will allow the use of a global property like:

<maven.compiler.release>${javaVersion}</maven.compiler.release>

and not fail if the javadoc is generated on JDK 8.

Issue Links

• causes: MJAVADOC-820 [REGRESSION] MJAVADOC-787 was merged incompletely
• relates to: MCOMPILER-582 Automatic detection of release option for JDK < 9
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #326