Bug#1030150: freeplane fails to start with java 18 (openJDK 18) and openJDK 17.

[debian at jalsti.de]

Hi Felix,

as Debian (and many derivates) still ship with old JDK, there is in my eyes no reason to remove
Freeplane because of that. Also it would be a shame if it maybe would vanish from it, in that way.

FTR: I am tunning OpenJDK 1.17.10 on Devuan, and Freeplane 1.7.0 runs fine (also still a 32bit
system)

Best,
Alex

Felix Natter <fnatter at gmx.net> 
am Sonntag, 31. März 2024, 17:11:02:

> Dear users,
> 
> you can download and install the .deb version that upstream provides:
> - https://sourceforge.net/projects/freeplane/
> - select "Files"
> - select "freeplane stable"
> - select freeplane_1.11.11~upstream-1_all.deb
> - install with "sudo apt install /path/to/freeplane_1.11.11~upstream-1_all.deb"
> 
> (the file name of the stable version may change over time!)
> 
> Note this bug related to ibus:
> https://github.com/freeplane/freeplane/issues/1069
> 
> You can also, as the reporter noted, switch to an old JRE (mind security
> issues though!), either through JAVA_CMD or FREEPLANE_JAVA_HOME.
> 
> I cannot package freeplane-1.11.x for Debian because it requires
> gradle >= 7.x.
> 
> I am discussing with the debian-java team whether to remove freeplane
> from Debian/Ubuntu for security reasons (old JRE versions...), unless
> you disagree strongly [1]!
> 
> [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-java/2024/03/msg00016.html
> 
> Cheers and Best Regards,
> Felix
> --
> Felix Natter
>