I think some fixes are required about Geoserver’s Java version compatibility in the documentation.
Trying to use Java 8, but the environmental guides are different from one another.
- In this page: [[https://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/production/java.html]1]
It shows that the latest version of geoserver compatible with Java 8 is 2.21.x
- “Java 8 - GeoServer 2.9.x to GeoServer 2.21.x (OpenJDK and Oracle JRE tested)”
It’s up to 2.22.x. I’ve noticed another issue though, it’s apparently selling Java 17 as supported,
while it’s just experimental. I’ve opened a PR about it:
https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/pull/6828
(btw, if you spot documentation errors you can do the same, there is a “edit” button in every documentation page).
- In the archives page: https://geoserver.org/download/ > archive tab
It says that all versions are compatible with Java 8
- GeoServer 2.23 archives, Java 8 and Java 11 compatible
Hum… these pages are auto-generated with a loop, that’s why the message is the same… I guess the
logic needs a fix around here:
https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver.github.io/blob/main/download/index.html#L258
Anyone up to try and fix that so that version 23 and above are compatible with Java 11 only? (and maybe state java 17 experimentally)
- In the version 2.23 announcement: https://geoserver.org/announcements/2023/04/05/geoserver-2-23-0-released.html
In “About GeoServer 2.23 Series” at the end of the page, it says “Drop Java 8” and nothing in the 2.22 announcement about Java compatibility.(According to the explanations in “1.” the dropping should have happened in this version)
This announcement is correct
Cheers
Andrea
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