JDK 17 will be the next minimum version required by Scala 3

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A new Scala blog post/announcement has been posted!

We recently asked for community input on changing the JDK version used by the Scala 3 compiler. We now thank everyone for their input and announce the decision: JDK 17 will be the new minimum, starting with Scala 3.8 minor and the subsequent new LTS which will mostly likely be Scala 3.9.

Why drop 8?

Our reasoning for dropping 8 was presented in this previous blog post.

Why drop 11?

The discussion on whether to also drop 11 didn’t uncover any compelling reason not to leave JDK 11 behind. 11 is now nearly as antiquated as 8, and moving from 11 to 17 is not normally considered a difficult upgrade for users. 17 offers useful APIs and VM features. In the JVM world, requiring 17+ is already a mainstream position and is becoming more so with every passing month. Also, we increase Scala’s minimum so rarely, we feel we should take this cha...

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