Mark Rotteveel wrote :

Jaybird 2.2 currently supports Java 5 and up. When I planned Jaybird 2.3

(now 3.0), I was planning to continue to support Java 6 with Jaybird

3.0, and drop support with Jaybird 3.1. However I have decided to change

that decision.

Java 5 has been end of public updates since October 2009 and Java 6 has

been end of public updates since February 2013. Java 7 itself is end of

public updates since this month (April 2015). See the Oracle Java

End-Of-Life policy at:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html.

Jaybird 3 is taking longer than I anticipated; I hope to have a beta

ready in Q3 2015, but this really depends on available time.

With this in mind, I have made the decision to make the following changes:

Starting with Jaybird 2.2.8, Jaybird 2.2 will no longer support Java 5,

and I will only release builds for Java 7 and Java 8 (I will maintain

Java 6 compatibility for the 2.2 branch, so people can compile their own

version if they really need it).

Jaybird 3.0 will *not* support Java 6. For the time being I plan to

support Java 7 and 8 (and probably also Java 9). Depending on the final

release date of Jaybird 3.0, Java 7 support might still be dropped.