⚠Deprecations and new default versions

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2024

~Default API version~ (Done ✅)

~Android 14 will be using latest tag on January 1st, 2024.~

Default JDK 17 version

The latest release of Android Studio Flamingo came along with the new Android Gradle Plugin 8.0.0. This version of the plugin requires Java 17 to run. To avoid problems with CI/CD configurations, Java 17 will be the default JDK for versions released on or after July 1st, 2024. In other words, if you are using currently latest tag, from July 1st, 2024, it will use Java 17 instead of Java 11.

~2023~

~Deprecation~ (Done ✅)

~Since v2018.02.17, this image included all versions from API 21 onwards. Android 5 was released on 2014, thats 7 years ago and Google ended its support long time ago. New versions of Alpine Android published from Novemeber 1st, 2021 will only generate tags for API 28 and newer versions.~

~Default JDK 11 version~ (Done ✅)

~The latest release of Android Studio 2020.3.1 came along with the new Android Gradle Plugin 7.0.0. This version of the plugin requires Java 11 to run. To avoid problems with CI/CD configurations, Java 11 will be the default JDK for versions released on or after July 28th, 2022. In other words, if you are using currently latest tag, from July 28th, 2022, it will use Java 11 instead of Java 8.~