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<ul>
<li>
- The AspectJ compiler <tt>ajc</tt> (contained in the <tt>aspectjtools</tt> library) no longer works on JDKs 8 to 10. The minimum
- compile-time requirement is now JDK 11 due to upstream changes in the Eclipse Java Compiler (subset of JDT Core),
- which AspectJ is a fork of. You can still compile to legacy target versions as low as Java 1.3 when compiling plain
- Java code or using plain Java ITD constructs which do not require the AspectJ runtime <tt>aspectjrt</tt>, but the compiler
- itself needs JDK 11+. Just like in previous AspectJ versions, both the runtime <tt>aspectjrt</tt> and the load-time weaver
- <tt>aspectjweaver</tt> still only require JRE 8+.
+ The AspectJ compiler <tt>ajc</tt> (contained in the <tt>aspectjtools</tt> library) no longer works on JDKs 8 to 10.
+ The minimum compile-time requirement is now JDK 11 due to upstream changes in the Eclipse Java Compiler (subset of
+ JDT Core), which AspectJ is a fork of. You can still compile to legacy target versions as low as Java 1.3 when
+ compiling plain Java code or using plain Java ITD constructs which do not require the AspectJ runtime
+ <tt>aspectjrt</tt>, but the compiler itself needs JDK 11+. Just like in previous AspectJ versions, both the runtime
+ <tt>aspectjrt</tt> and the load-time weaver <tt>aspectjweaver</tt> still only require JRE 8+.
</li>
<li>Document build profiles and properties in <i>docs/developer/BUILD.md</i></li>
<li>Add a guide for setting up an AspectJ development environment in <i>docs/developer/IDE.md</i></li>
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aspect library via <tt>-aspectpath</tt> in combination with introducing an annotation via ITD. This was broken since
version 1.9.5 and fixed in 1.9.8.RC3.
</li>
+ <li>
+ Fix <a href="https://github.com/eclipse/org.aspectj/issues/68">issue #68</a>: Correctly process class files
+ containing <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/309">dynamic class-file constants (JEP 309)</a>, which were
+ introduced in Java 11 and broken in AspectJ ever since their introduction in 1.9.2. Java itself currently does not
+ use "condy" and neither do other widespread JVM languages. Byte code engineering libraries like ASM or Byte Buddy
+ and some instrumentation tools like JaCoCo can however produce condy code. Therefore, in order to create a
+ regression test, we actually had to
+ <a href="https://github.com/eclipse/org.aspectj/blob/de63b63d/tests/bugs198/github_68/Generator.java#L50-L61">
+ craft a condy class with ASM</a>.
+ </li>
</ul>
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