Was the bump in required JDK for Kotest intentiona...
# kotests
simon.vergauwen
09/04/2023, 8:28 AMWas the bump in required JDK for Kotest intentional? I don't see it in the changelog.
Caused by: java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: io/kotest/runner/junit/platform/KotestJunitPlatformTestEngine has been compiled by a more recent version of the Java Runtime (class file version 55.0), this version of the Java Runtime only recognizes class file versions up to 52.0l
LeoColman
09/04/2023, 2:19 PMI think it's required by Kotlin 1.9
LeoColman
09/04/2023, 2:19 PMThat's a wild guess tho
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Chris Lee
09/04/2023, 2:26 PMLooks like it was missed in the release notes. Java 11 toolchain now used.
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Emil Kantis
09/04/2023, 5:10 PMI don't think that was intentional.. See here
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simon.vergauwen
09/05/2023, 7:39 AMIt broke some Arrow builds 😕 We're following the same targets as Kotlin Std and KotlinX, so we want to publish and test JDK8.
but I guess Kotest is more oriented for testing applications, not libraries.
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Emil Kantis
09/05/2023, 8:48 AM@sam want me to look into fixing this? It’s a regression, right?
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LeoColman
09/05/2023, 1:45 PMI believe it is
LeoColman
09/05/2023, 1:45 PMWe did say that following what Kotlin is doing was a good idea, following the default
LeoColman
09/05/2023, 1:46 PMSo I'd say that this is probably a bit not-intended. If we can compile against JDK 8 we should
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sam
09/05/2023, 2:36 PMYes we need to release 5.7.2 back on JDK 8
sam
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