Re: Java 25 support

> On Oct 2, 2025, at 7:26 PM, Yeikel Santana <email@yeikel.com> wrote:
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> Awesome, thank you for the update! I'll track https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/19513 in the meantime
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> ---- On Thu, 02 Oct 2025 01:46:54 -0400 Chia-Ping Tsai <chia7712@apache.org> wrote ---
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> hi Yeikel
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> We are upgrading the build tool to JDK 25 [0]. and we will then upgrade the CI accordingly. I expect Kafka 4.2 to support the Java 25 runtime.
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> [0] https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/19513
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> Best,
> Chia-Ping
>
> On 2025/09/19 17:20:33 Yeikel Santana wrote:
>> Hi team,
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>> What's the current status of the Java 25 support for the project?
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>> Is it safe to deploy Kafka and Connect using a Java 25 runtime?
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As far as running, as opposed to building, we run Kafka Client and Streams
on JDK 25 in testing so far and haven't noticed any significant regressions.