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[Rod Widdowson]

> Right. We specify the TestNG version (both as a Maven plugin and as a
> dependency) in the parent POM. [...] , but it's unclear to me how to
version our artifacts
> either way for such a change.

I wouldn't have thought we would need to.  But what would I know.

 > > I suppose the obverse question is, if we upgrade the java which is
installed
> > do we bump the parent version?  That really *does* affect the shipped
> > artefact.
> 
> The source and target Java level, yes.

No, I meant a release tweak (from java 8.1_U56 to java 8.1_U57).  That’s a
patch change (of the compiler).  Should we care as much as a change from
Xerces 1.2.4 to 1.2.5?  I guess that there is a lot of trust that Oracle
won't break things. 

(Aside: there used to be a rule and may still be in the avionics space that
the tools used in an aircraft design and their compilers had to be archived
for an improbably long period of time, anyone for Borland Pascal? Or ThreeL
C for the Transputer?)

/R