docs: Announce core decision about JDK

Author: tgodzik

_posts/2025-03-05-next-scala-lts-jdk.md.md

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+category: announcement
+permalink: /news/next-scala-lts-jdk.html
+title: "JDK 17 will be the next JDK version used by Scala 3"
+by: Tomasz Godzik, VirtusLab & Scala Core Team
+---
+
+We recently asked for the community input about changing the JDK version used by
+the Scala 3 compiler. We wanted to thank everyone for their input and announce
+the decision to switch to JDK 17 starting with 3.8 minor and the next LTS which
+will mostly likely be Scala 3.9.
+
+This only concerns Scala 3, there are no plans to change Scala 2 JDK support and
+it will continue being built using JDK 8.
+
+The related discussion can be found on the
+[Scala contributors forum](https://contributors.scala-lang.org/t/next-scala-3-lts-version-will-increase-minimum-required-jdk-version)