Stack overflow fix for Java 1.8?

[AngledLuffa]

Hi,

I am the primary maintainer of Stanford CoreNLP. We use the Lucene libraries for various things in our software.

I found that there's a fix for a stack overflow error in recent versions of Lucene:

#12462

This was in response to the following issue a user raised on our software:

stanfordnlp/CoreNLP#1408

However, when I went to update the Lucene libraries we depend on, it turns out the latest releases target Java 11. I don't suppose there's a release of Lucene which targets 8? We have kept our software compatible with Java 8 for a while, although we're aware that eventually we'll want to move on to newer versions.

Thanks in advance

[dweiss]

Your best bet would be to bump the minimum requirements to a more recent Java version and use a more recent Lucene release. There are benefits reaching beyond just that particular bug - new features, new codecs, faster searches.

Lucene 8 does occasionally receive patches in the joint Lucene/Solr repository, here:
https://github.com/apache/lucene-solr/commits/branch_8_11/

I don't think there'll be a lot of interest to backport larger things to that branch though.

[AngledLuffa]

Yeah, it's probably about time to move on from 8. Will need to give a heads up to our userbase, though