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Create java-8 backport of Jetty-12.x/EE8

Open gregw opened this issue 1 month ago • 3 comments

Jetty version(s) Jetty-12

Enhancement Description

Create a version of jetty-12/EE8 that will run on java-8

gregw avatar Nov 13 '25 22:11 gregw

This would require jetty-core Java 8 compliant as well.

olamy avatar Nov 14 '25 00:11 olamy

@gregw are you suggesting maintaining separate branches for jetty-12.0.x-java8 and jetty-12.1.x-java8?

I thought you wanted to reduce the number of branches?

I also thought Java 8 was dead.

sbordet avatar Nov 14 '25 10:11 sbordet

We open ourselves to unfixed CVEs in our 3rd party dependencies that belong to abandoned Java 8 branches of theirs. This is not a great idea.

joakime avatar Nov 14 '25 12:11 joakime