Scala 2.13.17 release planning

This thread is for updates and discussions about the eventual Scala 2.13.17 release.

As of yet, we don’t know much about the release’s likely contents or timing. If no followup to 2.13.16 needs to be rushed out, then a typical timeframe might be 3–6 months.

Let’s use this thread to ask, propose, discuss.

2.13.17 should support JDK 24, So I think 3 months?

Update: should be JDK 25

2.13.16 already supports JDK 24, as per Release Scala 2.13.16 · scala/scala · GitHub and JDK Compatibility | Scala Documentation

Unless some new incompatibility is reported, there isn’t anything further to do.

(Though are there are new Java language features that the Java parser should support? That’s always desirable to do, and let’s make sure there are open tickets on each of them, but it doesn’t drive release schedules, either.)

Ohch I mean JDK 25, the next LTS version.

Ah, okay. I see the scheduled GA date for JDK 25 is September 2025. I’m sure we’ll have support in nightlies sooner than that (we’ll upgrade ASM as soon as an upgrade is available), but I don’t see this as creating a need to rush out a proper release any earlier than September. People who want to do early testing on JDK 25 can use a nightly Scala.

Regardless, thanks for bringing it up; we’ll definitely keep this in mind as the year progresses.

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