Hi,
Bart has done all the CQ work for getting our Elasticsearch (and Lucene) up to the newest LTS versions. This is awesome.
Java 13 didn't run on the old Elasticsearch version, but with this bump we can also bump the Elasticsearch version we use for our tests. This bump (only for tests) is on master now, as well as a bump from 11 to 13 for Github CI.
This means that from today our code both builds and runs on Java 13!
Q: What about Java 8?
A: We are still building and testing against Java 8. No change here!
Q: What about Java 11? Shouldn't we support that too?
A: I reckon supporting 8 and 13 means we are compatible with 11 as well. Once we remove support for Java 8 (ca. 1. august 2089 :P ) we can move to Java 11 as our lowest required version and use all the fancy new stuff.
Q: Why not just move to Java 14 instead of 13, which is already out of date?
A: My personal experience has been that living on the bleeding edge has its costs. We should reconsider soon though, in just a few weeks Java 14 will already be 3 months old. Main goal is to not lag so far behind that catching up becomes a massive chore.
Cheers,
Håvard
