Severin Gehwolf

It would be good to merge latest master to get cleaner GHA runs.

@sercher Please get this reviewed, before applying for backport approval. Thanks!

Please only apply for approval once it's been approved and backported in prior releases.

This seems locale dependent and `en_GB` provides different output between JDK versions. Likely due to changes in Locale providers. Specifying `-Djava.locale.providers=compat` results in upper case formatting in JDK 21. If...

``` import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; import java.text.DateFormatSymbols; import java.util.Calendar; import java.util.Locale; import java.util.TimeZone; public class AmPmDemo { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println(Locale.getDefault()); DateFormatSymbols dfs = new DateFormatSymbols(); dfs.setAmPmStrings(new String[] {...

> > This would resolve the immediate issues with those JDBC drivers: we wouldn't need substitutions in MSSQL, > > Why are these substitutions bad? They help GraalVM eliminate unused...

> > A power user with a custom library could use `quarkus.native.additional-build-args` ? > > [@Sanne](https://github.com/Sanne) You can't use the `quarkus.native.additional-build-args` to "remove" an option, or? I mean, you can...

+1 to the proposal of 250 days retention policy.

JDK 26+13 is available via labs by now. That isn't a blocker. We see a couple of assertions fired with this though. Example: ``` Caused by: java.lang.AssertionError: Exception raised while...

After #911 we should perhaps revisit this one (perhaps as a separate job) to set the additional build args to enable assertions?