Upgrade dependencies, Gradle and generated bytecode

We have to use a Java 17, as the Native Build Tools have a Java 17
baseline. Java 17 doesn't support generating Bytecode for Java 6 anymore,
so we have to bump that up to 8.

Author: phxql

.github/workflows/build-and-test.yml

@@ -15,35 +15,33 @@ jobs:
       matrix:
         os: [ ubuntu-latest ]
         # See CONTRIBUTING.md on JDK 11 build requirement
-        java: [ '11' ]
+        java: [ '17' ]
         architecture: [ 'x64' ] # ubuntu-latest has no support for x86
         distribution: [ 'zulu', 'adopt' ]
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
       - name: Set up JDK ${{ matrix.java }}
-        uses: actions/setup-java@v4
+        uses: actions/setup-java@v5
         with:
           java-version: ${{ matrix.java }}
           architecture: ${{ matrix.architecture }}
           distribution: ${{ matrix.distribution }}
-          cache: 'gradle'
       - name: Setup Gradle
         uses: gradle/actions/setup-gradle@v4
       - name: Build with Gradle
         run: ./gradlew build
   build-on-linux-native:
     runs-on: 'ubuntu-latest'
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
       - name: Set up GraalVM
         uses: graalvm/setup-graalvm@v1
         with:
           java-version: '17'
           distribution: 'graalvm-community'
           github-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
           native-image-job-reports: 'true'
-          cache: 'gradle'
       - name: Setup Gradle
         uses: gradle/actions/setup-gradle@v4
       - name: Build with Gradle
@@ -53,20 +51,19 @@ jobs:
       matrix:
         os: [ macos-latest ]
         # See CONTRIBUTING.md on JDK 11 build requirement
-        java: [ '11' ]
+        java: [ '17' ]
         # MacOS has no support for x86 ("Error: No valid download found for version 11.x and package jdk.")
         architecture: [ 'x64' ]
         distribution: [ 'zulu', 'adopt' ]
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
       - name: Set up JDK ${{ matrix.java }}
-        uses: actions/setup-java@v4
+        uses: actions/setup-java@v5
         with:
           java-version: ${{ matrix.java }}
           architecture: ${{ matrix.architecture }}
           distribution: ${{ matrix.distribution }}
-          cache: 'gradle'
       - name: Setup Gradle
         uses: gradle/actions/setup-gradle@v4
       - name: Build with Gradle
@@ -77,19 +74,18 @@ jobs:
       matrix:
         os: [ windows-latest ]
         # See CONTRIBUTING.md on JDK 11 build requirement
-        java: [ '11' ]
+        java: [ '17' ]
         architecture: [ 'x86', 'x64' ]
         distribution: [ 'zulu', 'adopt' ]
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
       - name: Set up JDK ${{ matrix.java }}
-        uses: actions/setup-java@v4
+        uses: actions/setup-java@v5
         with:
           java-version: ${{ matrix.java }}
           architecture: ${{ matrix.architecture }}
           distribution: ${{ matrix.distribution }}
-          cache: 'gradle'
       - name: Setup Gradle
         uses: gradle/actions/setup-gradle@v4
       - name: Build with Gradle

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
 ## Unreleased
 
-TBD
+* Minimum required Java version is now Java 8
 
 ## [2.12] - 2025-03-04
 

build.gradle

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 plugins {
-    id 'org.graalvm.buildtools.native' version '0.10.5' apply false
+    id 'org.graalvm.buildtools.native' version '0.11.0' apply false
     id 'org.sonarqube' version '3.0' apply false
 }
 
@@ -23,22 +23,23 @@ subprojects {
 
     compileJava {
         // The generated bytecode is for a 1.6 JVM
-        options.release = 6
+        options.release = 8
     }
 
     java {
         toolchain {
-            // We need a JDK 11 to build argon2-jvm
-            languageVersion.set(JavaLanguageVersion.of(11))
+            // We need a JDK 17 to build argon2-jvm
+            languageVersion.set(JavaLanguageVersion.of(17))
         }
 
         withJavadocJar()
         withSourcesJar()
     }
 
     dependencies {
-        testImplementation 'org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter:5.12.0'
-        testImplementation 'org.assertj:assertj-core:3.27.3'
+        testImplementation 'org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter:5.13.4'
+        testImplementation 'org.assertj:assertj-core:3.27.4'
+        testRuntimeOnly 'org.junit.platform:junit-platform-launcher:1.13.4'
     }
 
     test {

gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-7.4.2-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.14.3-bin.zip
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists