alt Hacker NewsI just got my projects up to JDK 21 a few months ago. Working on trying to get one upgraded to JDK 25 now and now they're talking about delivering JDK 28 in less than a year from now. How are you supposed to keep up with these rapid updates?
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cogman10 • today at 2:55 PM
What did you go from to get to 21?
Mostly just hit the LTSes is what we've been doing and since about 17 it's been a pretty easy process in general.
Protip: If you ditch lombok everything gets a lot easier.
How much stuff actually broke? I feel like you can treat Java upgrades as minor upgrades most of the time, maybe you have to rebuild a few binaries but I'd be shocked if it required significant code changes.