[1.5.2] New patch version requires Java 21

[DreierF]

Hi,

Our build breaks after updating from 1.5.1 to 1.5.2 because the library seems to no longer be compiled against Java 8, but Java 21. As this was not mentioned in the changelog and also would warrant a new major version I assume this was by accident?

java: cannot access org.skyscreamer.jsonassert.JSONAssert
  bad class file: .../.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/org.skyscreamer/jsonassert/1.5.2/917a0be22be2cd752408c49cf99655d0c6275b9/jsonassert-1.5.2.jar!/org/skyscreamer/jsonassert/JSONAssert.class
    class file has wrong version 65.0, should be 61.0
    Please remove or make sure it appears in the correct subdirectory of the classpath.

[philib]

+1

[marcindabrowski]

If it was intended it should be at least minor not a patch version release.

[JaredHatfield]

@marcindabrowski agreed.

Updating to Java 21 as the new required minimum is one thing, but doing it on an incremental release is another all together. I would have expected this to at lest be a minor release but ideally a major release.

I have multiple projects that use Java 17 and the upgrade to Java 21 breaks the use of this library.