We have a long history of advancing the required compiler to the newest
JDK. JDK 13 has been with us for awhile, but we were blocked from
upgrading since Gradle was not compatible with JDK 13. With the
advancement in our project to Gradle 6 which supports JDK 13, we can now
advance our minimum compiler version. This commit updates the minimum
compiler version to JDK 13.
This upgrade required a few significant changes. Firstly, the build
scan plugin has been renamed, and changed to be a Settings plugin rather
than a project plugin so the declaration of this has moved to our
settings.gradle file. Second, we were using a rather old version of the
Nebula ospackage plugin for building deb and rpm packages, the migration
to the latest version required some updates to get things working as
expected as we had some workarounds in place that are no longer
applicable with the latest bug fixes.
Switch to parametric CI jobs. Given the changes in CI this also switches to running Gradle with the build java version only ( we used to also run it with run-time java version )
Now that JDK 11 is GA, we would switch our 6.x and master branches to
the JDK 11 compiler. This commit makes this change, as well as removes
JDK 10 from the CI configuration.
* Add test matrix axis files for periodic java testing
* Add properties file defining java versions to use
* We have no openjdk8
* Remove openjdk
Oracle Java and OpenJDK basically only differ in license, so we don't
need to test both.
Mark Vieira
Jason Tedor
Alpar Torok
Colin Goodheart-Smithe
Lee Hinman
David Leatherman