Hi,
I am not sure if this is the correct place to ask this question. If not point me into the right place.
We are using opensearch-java client 3.5.0.
We noticed it is using a very old version of:
```
// EPL-2.0 OR GPL-2.0 WITH Classpath-exception-2.0
// https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/ee4j.ca
implementation("jakarta.annotation", "jakarta.annotation-api", "1.3.5")
```
Current version is 3.0.0
This will downgrade all other versions used in our repo.
Is there any reason to use such old version?
build.gradle.kts has
targetCompatibility = JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8sourceCompatibility = JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
I can see java-codegen has 11.
Java version
Released
End of normal support
Java 11
Sep 2018
Sep 2023
Keeping old version support like java 8 would make it impossible to uplift ver. 3.x.x of
What are the thoughts about this?
Can I make a contribution of java-client with 11 support?
br,
//mikael petterson
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reta
March 12, 2026, 5:28pm
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Hi @eraonel , the JDK-8 support was explicit ask from number of users (due to some projects still stuck on JDK-8, even now), we actually used to have JDK-11 baseline before (personally, I would prefer to settle on JDK-21 at least). To answer your question, for 4.x (main branch) we could settle on JDK-11 (at least), but not for 3.x release line.
Hi @reta
Ok I understand. Lets hope users of jdk 1.8 have extended support for jdk
When will branch for 4.x start?
br,
//mikael petterson
reta
March 13, 2026, 11:48am
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The main branch is right now positioned as 4.x however at this moment I am not aware of any plans or timelines releasing it. My guess would be OpenSearch 4.x which is also not on a horizon at the moment.
